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Covering disasters
Went to Oxford last night to hear Glenda Cooper’s excellent Guardian lecture about covering disasters and the collusion between journalists and aid agencies, among other things. Potted version here. Will post more when it’s all online.
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Journalism: the ethics of booze and fast cars
In the mid-1990s, when Jeremy Clarkson was young and engaging (charming, actually), I turned up to do a TV interview with him. He had a small house in West London, and he couldn’t have been more helpful. Parked outside was a top of the line black Volvo 850 (the T-5, I think), the family runaround,…
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David Leigh on the future of reporting
Friends of Anthony Sampson gathered last night to hear the new professor who has a chair in his name, David Leigh of the Guardian. There were over four hundred people packing the venue – standing room only – for his inaugural lecture, The End of the Reporter. Ironically, David doesn’t lecture to the masses at…
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Dina Rabinovitch
I try to keep away from people writing about dying. It’s one of those healthy natural defence mechanisms – like cruelty – that work best when you’re young and vigorous. But like bone and tooth enamel, it weakens over time. And I am weak.So when I saw the notice about the death of Dina Rabinovitch,…