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Washington views and news
Over lunch today someone just back from the U.S. was telling of a very recently cancelled eating engagement with none other than Karl Rove. The secretary who called to reschedule explained politely that the mid-term elections were taking up more time than Mr Rove had anticipated. Unsurprisingly, U.S. politics features heavily on the new Channel…
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BBC News
Amanda Farnsworth is leaving for sport, creating an internal daytime vacancy for Peter Horrocks to fill. She blogged it this afternoon. Horrocks promoted Kevin Bakhurst to oversee News 24 so here’s my not-so-radical suggestion. Why not hand control of the 1 and the 6 to whoever is strand editing on News 24? Spend the extra…
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Remembering Balfour
A journalist friend on a Middle Eastern newspaper asked me about the 89th anniversary of the Balfour declaration. His paper is publishing a special supplement! He wondered how the anniversary was marked in Britain. The answer of course, is with bemused silence…why would we mark that anniversary year by year? Arthur Balfour was a former…
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Libel news 3
Student feedback is what keeps us educationalists going. Here’s a little from one course blog on the ‘Dow Jones Defence’ panel that we ran on Monday – the first time the journalists who broke the Jameel story had come together to discuss it publicly. I’ll keep it short: I thought the Jameel panel today was…