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The Dead Journalists Society (sponsored by Uzbekistan)
Has a new member, Alisher Saipov. Saipov was shot dead outside his office. Of course, there is no evidence connecting the murder of this critic of the Uzbek regime and aforesaid repressive regime. Why only the other week, the European Union was offering Uzbekistan a little carrot, to encourage it to repress a little more…
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Why be a journalist?
Why be a journalist? The recent Forbes report that listed journalism as an endangered profession has got an answer from the ever readable John Robinson: What a crock … the report ignores the two reasons that everyone I’ve ever met in print journalism got into the business: they love the work and they want to…
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Does this feel painfully familiar?
From the folks formerly known as Kommon Kraft.
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Do bylines matter?
The Daily Telegraph on the importance of bylines: The signature system has … dwindled into a purely technical and professional matter, a typographical detail, a means of obtaining recruits for new journals, or for enabling writers to find employment in different papers. Out of a thousand signed articles only about twenty carry with them any…