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Award-winning journalism
For any blogger there is no greater compliment than the attention of you, the reader. Of course, that would probably be chucked out the window the moment this blog won an award (unlikely) – when, in true journalistic tradition, it would become “an award-winning blog.” I’ve just come from the Royal Television Society’s journalism awards…
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Foreign correspondents – a dying breed unmourned by the audience
In an elegiac musing by Jon Friedman on the decline of the traditional foreign correspondent, Why foreign correspondents are a dying breed, there is a welcome reality check in the comments from one of those people formerly known as… read it below and remember who you write for. Foreign correspondents (and all journalists) are becoming…
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The new Five News with…
Is fine. The thing that gave it most character, ironically, was not Natasha Kaplinsky but the promo for its long-running Your News segment, which was more impressive than the thin segment that actually aired. The style is a familiar mix of glossy professionalism up top, and poppy amateurism down bulletin. Will viewers abandon Emmerdale or…
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How well informed are “official” sources?
The usefulness of diplomats has long been a mystery to me. Former British diplomat Carne Ross has an anecdote that should ring alarm bells with anyone who wants to know how valid “official” government sources really are: I will here admit one shameful episode from my own career: when I was posted to Kabul, I…