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An audience with Tony Blair
As the photo above aptly demonstrates, I’m completely at home with using my BlackBerry’s camera to newsgather. Or not. The middle blur is Tony Blair, fresh from the latest of his suite of valedictory speeches – this one about the media. The Prime Minister attacked “the confusion of news and commentary” in journalism. “Opinion and…
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World News Today
Richard Porter has a pop at my review of his new show (in its BBC Four incarnation). Adrian Monck is wrong about World News Today (News lightweight doesn’t stand a chance, June 4) on a number of counts. My main criticism was that it’s scheduled in the UK against an almost identical public service programme…
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Industry moves
In an interesting move, Howard Kurtz reports today that Rome Hartman, formerly Exec Producer at the revamped CBS Evening News, will be joining BBC World. Like many an EP before, Hartman was fired for the American public’s failure to appreciate the anchor chosen by the network. He’s also had a lot of experience playing with…
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In praise of the micro-audience
There is a quality about blogs which is worth more praise than it gets – the micro-audience. Whenever this blog has hit the heady heights of 300 visits (it varies from 75-100) a day, it has invariably been off the back of some hot-button issue that drags in people not interested in the arcane topics…