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Newspaper obits
Madison Taylor, editor of the Burlington Times News, has a poignant post that says something about the changing times for US newspapers:
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James Bays
Mister Bays, my old colleague from Five News days, is now plying his trade at Al Jazeera English. James picked up a second place at the Monte Carlo TV Festival for his reporting from Afghanistan. Here he is from May, 2007:
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Media deathlock: newspapers, politics and David Davis
David Davis‘ decision to resign as a Conservative MP to re-contest his seat is one of the more extraordinary political decisions of our time. The fact that a former newspaper editor of the old right (Kelvin MacKenzie) may be his only competition only adds to the strangeness. To me, it’s like watching a mutual embrace…
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What To Do If You Find Top Secret Docs 2
Just hand them to the police and cut out the sententious, moralising middle man. Why so? Over at the BBC Editors Blog, Fran Unsworth explains why the BBC did this with the ‘top secret’ documents it received.