Category: Journalism

  • Making a difference: a reflection from Pakistan

    The News in Pakistan is celebrating sixteen years in production. One of its writers, Ghazi Salahuddin, reflects on the changes in that short time, and the hopes of the launch team. It’s a thoughtful piece, and shows – if we needed confirmation – how much journalists around the world hold in common. In Pakistan, The…

  • Blog-sultancy

    Richard Sambrook calls the blog-sultants… enough of bloggers (many of whom make their living from consulting with big organisations) saying big media doesn’t “get it” and only they have insight (which for a daily rate they can share…), insight, enough of big media agonising over how to respond to the huge disruption the internet has…

  • Local news and the KKK

    I keep tabs on John Robinson‘s excellent blog from an American local newspaper. I’d quite forgotten that the KKK was still really in business, but John has a reminder. And a reminder too that local journalism in America is tough. To get the gist you’ll have to read this post first. Yes, I know I…

  • Jon Gilbert’s ‘friendly fire’ report

    Disclosure: ITV News reporter Jon Gilbert is a friend and former colleague. Some of the YouTube comments on Jon’s piece regarding the journalism are below. Of 87 comments at time of posting, only four dealt with the reporting of Eldon Anderson‘s remarks: …one question is, how many people that sounded intelligent and onhappy [sic] with…