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Claud Cockburn on proprietors
The humbug and hypocrisy of the Press begin only when newspapers pretend to be impartial or servants of the public. And this only becomes dangerous as well as laughable when the public is fool enough to believe it.“It seemed to me that a newspaper is always a weapon in somebody’s hands, and I never could…
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1970s newspaper wisdom
In 1971 Harvard Business School grad, Robert G. Marbut, approached the Harte family who owned a Texas newspaper group, to ask if they’d back his publishing venture. They turned him down. Instead, they asked him to run the family business, Harte-Hanks. Marbut took the company public and in a year had taken it out of…
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The first use of the word ‘Journalism’
The first use of the word journalism is recorded in the Oxford English Dictionary like this: 1833 Westm. Rev. Jan. 195 (Reviewing a French work ‘Du Journalisme’) ‘Journalism’ is a good name for the thing meant..A word was sadly wanted. Ibid. 196 The power of journalism is acknowledged..to be enormous in France. But the OED…
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Young people – will they ever trust the media?
Over at The Editors – yes, it already sounds like a 70s Sunday night drama – Rod McKenzie is worried about younger audiences (he’s editor of Newsbeat), but he thinks he knows what they want: I think what young audiences want is robust, interesting, passionate debate about stories and issues that affect them and their…