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The ‘broken’ news business
The future of journalism. That old chestnut. It came up again in a debate I did this week (PRs feeling sorry for journos), and now it surfaces again with news that the San Francisco Chronicle is in trouble, and editor Phil Bronstein (once Mr Sharon Stone) apparently told his troops that the news business: is…
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Trust and the media
Trust, as an issue for the media, never seems to be far from the news itself. Here’s Reuters‘ exec Geert Linnebank: We will always need a place for a news organization whose watchword is trust. Trust will be the differentiator in the new media dynamic. Your independence and impartiality will mark you out. According to…
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Do African governments deserve to be taken at face value?
The news out of Zimbabwe in the Times has a friend of mine in Angola complaining: …the paper fails to point out that the Angolan government has denied this story as ‘a gross lie.’ If the US government made such a denial would the Times omit it? … The Angolan authorities might not be telling…
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Ofcom’s PSB report – signifying nothing
In the crazy mental world I inhabit, I actually like media regulation. UK TV, excepting the BBC, is regulated by Ofcom. You can read their annual report on public service broadcasting here. The report is what a regulator’s report that didn’t want to regulate would look like. In this parallel world of non-regulation, this is…