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This afternoon
Paul Pilkington from PWC, on what advertisers want from news media, at the Stationers‘ 450th anniversary conference. I did a panel hosted by Lord Iliffe who heads Yattendon, with FT chairman Sir David Bell and Tim Bowdler, CEO of Johnston Press.
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Victims and journalists…
Saw an Arab journalist friend yesterday. He was describing a trip he’d been on to a Western country with some leading Middle Eastern journalists. One of their Western hosts expressed private horror at the prejudice and narrow-mindedness some of his colleagues brought to the experience. “You shouldn’t judge them as journalists,” my friend said, by…
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Funding digital journalism
Scott Karp writes up some of the people and projects getting money from the Knight Foundation. At City University we’d love to be on the receiving end of cash to fund digital journalism – but first we need some high-rolling, public-minded British philanthropists who believe in journalism, people like the Knight brothers.
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Why no Berlusconi news channel?
One thing I didn’t get round to blogging from the excellent Reuters Institute event at the European Studies Centre was the line from Mediaset CFO Marco Giordani. Mediaset is the Italian media giant owned by Silvio Berlusconi who you would think would want his own news channel. But Giordani said that despite the large numbers…