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Arab media
Larry Pintak, former CBS News correspondent and now Director of Journalism at the American University in Cairo, has started an online journal called Arab Media and Society – it’s full of interesting stuff, including this interview with Hosam El Sokkari, head of the Beeb’s new Arabic TV channel.
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Eyetracking for online journalism
Annenberg’s Online Journalism Review has an interesting take-out on the lessons of eyetracking research for page design. There’s a comparison from one of the researchers between the New York Times and the BBC sites: I like the [NYT] content and the way they present it. The titles are succinct and look clearly like links –…
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"Investing" in journalism
Britain’s National Union of Journalists commissioned a study into the Trinity Mirror newspaper group. Here’s how the NUJ followed through: The NUJ is calling for the National Assembly for Wales to summon Trinity Mirror boss Sly Bailey to answer tough questions after an in-depth academic study exposed the serious threat to the future of quality…
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Trashing Jill Carroll
US site Radar has an interesting opinion piece on Jill Carroll, the Christian Science Monitor stringer who was taken hostage in Iraq. It’s by Tony Dokoupil. Although Carroll was only a stringer, the Monitor put her on staff whilst she was being held and campaigned hard for her release. When she got out they made…