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This evening
Telegraph debate tonight in St Bride’s on 50 years of Fleet Street. Best lines? Emily Bell: The BBC now publishes the biggest newspaper in the world. Will Lewis: The newspaper groups that are going to prosper are those that get over themselves…
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This afternoon
Paul Pilkington from PWC, on what advertisers want from news media, at the Stationers‘ 450th anniversary conference. I did a panel hosted by Lord Iliffe who heads Yattendon, with FT chairman Sir David Bell and Tim Bowdler, CEO of Johnston Press.
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Victims and journalists…
Saw an Arab journalist friend yesterday. He was describing a trip he’d been on to a Western country with some leading Middle Eastern journalists. One of their Western hosts expressed private horror at the prejudice and narrow-mindedness some of his colleagues brought to the experience. “You shouldn’t judge them as journalists,” my friend said, by…
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Funding digital journalism
Scott Karp writes up some of the people and projects getting money from the Knight Foundation. At City University we’d love to be on the receiving end of cash to fund digital journalism – but first we need some high-rolling, public-minded British philanthropists who believe in journalism, people like the Knight brothers.