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Press Gazette
This is a piece for Press Gazette on what Michael Grade means for ITV.
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Euro news
A friend of mine used to have the unenviable job of running Euronews, back in the days when it was owned by ITN. Basically, it’s a Eurovision feed with a voice track in umpteen different languages. A simple premise, and effective – like hitting someone over the head with a plank, instead of running them…
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Katie Couric
Jon Friedman has a go at explaining the failure of the new CBS Evening News to break out of third place through Katie Couric. His verdict? “America wasn’t truly ready for the first solo woman evening-news anchor…” Well, it is 1956. My own view would have been that Couric was the change and wrapping that…
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What makes reporters tick? Readers respond…
Byron Calame‘s analysis of the motivations of journalists has received some interesting responses from readers of the New York Times. Here are my two faves: The New York Times’s business editors would ridicule any essay by a chief executive that purported to show that business executives’ motivations are largely altruistic based on a survey of…