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Category: Journalism

  • A journalist’s assessment of the Libby trial

    Rick Kaplan is about to walk in the door as EP at CBS News. Maybe the first thing he should do is beg Eric Engberg to come out of retirement. Engberg is an old CBS Washington hand, who is not best loved by people whose condemnations I tend to regard as commendations. In a more…

  • The new secret economy…

    Just caught up with Eli Noam‘s piece on private equity in the FT. Private equity has been in the ascendancy, buoyed by cheap debt, rising equity prices and high liquidity. In 2006, almost a quarter of all mergers and acquisitions were financed that way. This trend has raised questions. Many private equity deals are fuelled…

  • Five News

    There are two types of commitments in life. Verbal commitments and financial commitments. When governments make verbal commitments what do we judge them by? The money they’re allocating to realise their dreams. When you’re negotiating what do you rely on? Promises or prices? Here’s a verbal commitment: Channel Five will offer viewers dedicated slots on…

  • History of American Journalism

    If you go to Chris Daly‘s blog, you can read the first chapters of his forthcoming book Covering America. Daly is professor of journalism at Boston University and a former WaPo reporter. He’s taking the book up to 2004, so expect it to get more contentious the closer it gets to now…