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The new journalism?
A lot of messianic stuff is written about what the future of journalism looks like, but new site Wikileaks has a pre-launch taster of the kind of materials and treatment that could underpin it. It has a leak of what it claims is a list of US Military Equipment in Afghanistan. Wikileaks applies a lot…
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Alan Yentob: unforgivable
Alan Yentob, BBC Creative Director and self-basting arts turkey, uses an Observer diary piece to bury his contribution to the cut-away crisis. Yentob is in the dock for being filmed nodding approvingly to contributions from people he hadn’t actually interviewed. The impression being given to viewers that he had actually interviewed them. …on occasion, I…
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Zimbabwean travel journalism
The Zimbabwean tourist authority is looking to improve the country’s image. So who does it turn to? PRs? Lobbyists? No, travel writers. You know the kind of thing — “X travelled to the Gulag Archipelago as a guest of StalinTours.” Journalists to help market Zim tourism Fifteen European journalists, who are in the country on…
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Andrew Keen: cult of the contrarian
Martin Stabe must be on performance enhancing drugs – his posting levels are through the roof. It’s all good stuff, especially on the Richard Sambrook vs. Andrew Keen showdown at the Frontline. Keen’s new media vs. old media gamble is that infamy as the blogosphere’s contrarian punchbag will help sell his book. (Jeff Jarvis memorably…