Category: Journalism

  • Demablogs 2 – journalism strikes back

    DEMABLOG: “To accept that these are anonymous Iraqis blogging for McClatchy, a notoriously anti-Bushie news service, requires a profound leap a faith. You must believe that every lefty preconception about the war and its aftermath turned out to be true.”I mentioned McClatchy‘s Inside Iraq blog back in January. It’s where the U.S. newspaper group’s Iraqi…

  • Local news

    In case you haven’t caught up with it yet, there’s a hilarious response to this story from Cumbria’s Westmorland Gazette published back in January. The comments thread takes on a life of its own, but first the news: Chair destroyedBy Andrew DanielsRead Comments (74) AN OFFICE chair was destroyed after it was set on fire…

  • The latest Holovaty project is on Bill Clinton‘s speaking engagements. Interestingly Bill’s cheapest job in the UK was for the LSE back in 2001 – a snip at just over US$28k…compare that to his normal US$125-250k (in case you wanted to book him for a summer party).

  • Get blogging, get plagiarising…

    Chris Cobler‘s injunction to journalists to get blogging has attracted some attention. He’s just become the managing editor of US website Poynter Online, which aims to raise standards in journalism (it’s one of my personal faves). He was also, until recently, in charge of the Greeley Tribune, which has just admitted ripping off stories from…