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Do Readers Know What They Want?
That was the title of a speech by Vinod Mehta, editor of Indian magazine Outlook, as he picked up the International Press Institute award for exposing corruption and incompetence in the Indian navy. Here is a little excerpt: [C]ontent is a mix of what the reader wants and what he does not want. The trick…
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Restoring trust, one performance measure at a time
When it comes to the BBC, putting sense on the radio is a lot easier than putting it into practice. Here is future BBC Director-General, and former Radio 4 controller, Helen Boaden posting at the BBC Editors blog on restoring trust in the Beeb this year. She begins with a little reminder of her radio…
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Off topic: A Ghost Story
This being the season for ghost stories, I thought I would pass on probably the shortest ghost story I know (and I’ve cut it short). It is from the pen of the masterly M.R. James. A classic tale, it even gets its own scholarly article – “The Rules of Folklore” in the Ghost Stories of…
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Rumblings at Al Jazeera English
From the Friends of Al Jazeera blog: Well it looks like my husband and I (and our children) will be leaving Doha sooner than planned. Al Jazeera International (or Al Jazeera English as we were forced to call it after objections from the Arabic news channel) was launched 13 months ago. Since then two things…