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View from the top: the life of an editor
What’s it really like to head up a world class news organization? The New York Times‘ Bill Keller shares with readers the loneliness of command: Q. I think a lot of young journalists and editors, myself included, are curious about what a day in the shoes of Bill Keller is like. Can you walk us…
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Unrequired Reading {3.2.09}
These are my links for 3.2.09 from 07:33 to 20:57
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Endowed newspapers: the Nobel strategy
I have a new business model for newspapers. Publish provocative, but premature obituaries of the super rich – and then explain how they can redeem themselves by leaving their badly-gotten billions to – yes – a newspaper. I call it the Nobel strategy, after the inventor of dynamite. When Alfred Nobel‘s brother, an oil magnate,…
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Unrequired Reading {31.1.09 to 2.2.09}
These are my links for 31.1.09 through 2.2.09: The Burney Collection of 17th and 18th Century Newspapers – free online | British Library – The largest single online collection of English news media from the 17th and 18th centuries – the Burney Collection – is now available free of charge for the first time to…