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Young people and the news
Young people and the news. Harvard’s Shorenstein Centre has a metrics-based jeremiad out, with just that title. (In case you feel like it’s déjà vu all over again, I’ve posted on this before.) Hand-wringing over young people and the news is simply a displaced generational concern for their lack of the right stuff. We don’t…
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Ever wondered why the news doesn’t makes sense?
Because it doesn’t have to, that’s why. And if you don’t believe me – here is the Saturday Review from 1861: What does it matter if the Times, which is the organ of so many of us, contradicts itself and changes sides from day to day? Do not most people contradict themselves? Is the opinion…
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Investigative Journalism
We’re hosting the Centre for Investigative Journalism Summer School from next Friday, 20 July. Seymour Hersh will deliver the keynote. You can go to www.tcij.org for more details and to register for the Summer School. Speakers include David Leigh, Lowell Bergman, Tom Mangold, Sharon Tiller, David Donald, Ali Fadhil, Stephen Grey, Mark Hunter, Tommy Kaas,…
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The collateral damage of documentary promotion
Yesterday the BBC invited assorted media journos to take a peak at its autumn schedule. According to the Guardian, as BBC One boss Peter Fincham introduced a clip to promote RDF doc series A Year with the Queen he announced, “Annie Leibovitz gets it slightly wrong and the Queen walks out in a huff.” We…