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Data is dead
Some in journalism wonder if the story as an aggregate of verbal fact and reaction is losing its hold (See Kevin Marsh – The Story Is Dead). Now Brad King has weighed in with an interesting contribution – 5 Reasons The Story Is Dead.
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The next Len Downie: A Source familiar with his own thinking?
I’m not even familiar with my own thinking, so I loved this bit of tortured sourcing about possible successors to Len Downie at the Washington Post: A source familiar with [Marcus] Brauchli’s thinking says he is eager to return to editing a newspaper, two months after being pressured into resigning from the [Wall Street] Journal,…
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News market fails to be as lousy as ProPublica hopes
Said one director of investigative journalism outfit ProPublica when it launched (my itals): ProPublica may help lead the way to crafting new approaches addressing the market failure that seems to be taking hold in some segments of publishing, and that threatens a real loss to the health of our democracy. Market failure, eh? Looks like…
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Supa Mandiwanzira
City alum and Al Jazeera English Zimbabwe correspondent Supa Mandiwanzira has gained something of a reputation as a ZANU-PF propagandist. He starred in a recent edition of Private Eye (1210). Now, thanks perhaps to the curse of Gnome, a report suggests he is about to be cut adrift by Doha: