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Belly dancing bylines
Who was the reporter whose byline was borrowed by Con Coughlin (according to Andrew Gilligan) for a story on belly-dancing assassins? Well, the mysterious member of staff was none other than award-winning foreign reporter Christina Lamb, then diplomatic correspondent of the Sunday Telegraph. Can Lamb shed any light on the mystery?
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The Rise and Fall of the TV Journalist
Adam Curtis did this for BBC Four. So, like me, you probably never saw it…
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Democracy, the Media and Intelligence: the power of lunch
Nick Rufford reviews Norman Baker’s book The Strange Death of David Kelly and in dismissing Baker so reminds us of the likeliest explanation for Kelly’s death [my italics]: …Baker is offering an even shakier explanation than suicide. The most likely sequence of events is one Baker himself admits is “plausible”. On the morning of July…
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Tackling journalistic innumeracy
Talking of RSS, the Royal Statistical Society is running a FREE workshop for journalists to help them get more out of the statistics in the public domain – “whether from government, other public bodies or the private sector.” Editors – should you send hard-pressed reporters? Well, equipping reporters with the skills to knock down flip…