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The decline of newspapers – nothing to do with journalism 3
More grist to the mill from one of my favourite reads, John Robinson. Here is Robinson, (who edits the News-Record in Greensboro, North Carolina) explaining why he missed a retired editor speaking about the good old days and proposing another old-fashioned remedy for the news industry’s ills: Doubling the size of reporting staffs would certainly…
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ITV News: now edited by everyone
I understand that today is the day ITV News moves to a system where reporters edit their own TV packages. How can you tell someone new to video editing? Well, it’s always the sound that gives it away. That, and the going to black and flash frames. Having pioneered multi-skilling in TV newsrooms what would…
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The New York Times strategy…
Strategy at the New York Times? Goes a little something like this…according to their earnings call: There are four key elements to our strategy – introducing new products and services, both in print and online; aggressively managing our costs; rebalancing our portfolio of businesses both by making acquisitions and by divesting properties that no longer…
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Fadel Shana and flechettes
Reuters has released a video (see below) showing what appears to be the Israeli tank firing the round that – it’s claimed – killed cameraman Fadel Shana. The first thing to note is the distance that Shana is from the tank, probably a Merkava 4 with a 105mm gun firing flechette rounds. Flechettes? Flechettes are…