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Category: Journalists

  • Freedom of speech and the media

    Richard Sambrook posts at the End of Journalism, on freedom of speech. (There’s a hat-tip to dear old Simon ‘Cue’ Cumbers, among others.) He ends his piece: …if you doubt whether accurate, impartial, independent journalism can make a difference, you should recognise that some of theforces opposed to it don’t doubt it for a second.…

  • Anthony Mitchell

    Spare a thought for the family and friends of Anthony Mitchell, of the Associated Press, feared lost on Kenya Airways FQ 507. He was 39, married, with two young children. Here’s one of his stories from April on the U.S. government’s use of Ethiopian jails in its extraordinary rendition programme.

  • Will security journalism show its teeth?

    How hard will security correspondents push MI5 on the issues highlighted by the Fertiliser trial? The Sun puts the case for the prosecution. The Telegraph‘s Home Affairs editor, Philip Johnston (whose personal advocacy on behalf of the security services is a matter of record) has the case for the defence. So will this be a…

  • Dead journalists

    I hadn’t come across this poem before from former foreign corrrespondent James Fenton. [HT: 3quarksdaily] It’s a tribute to dead journalists, but it doesn’t work for me. It reads like a cheap Auden pastiche. Perhaps there’s an appropriate irony there? I prefer Harry Evans’ valediction for David Blundy. Still, you might have a different view.…