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Press Gazette
What would we know about Iraq without journalists? It might simply be a faceless chamber of video horrors… I have a piece in Press Gazette today on reporting four years after Iraq. But I’m afraid you’ll have to do that old-fashioned thing of physically getting hold of a copy…
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Arab media
Larry Pintak, former CBS News correspondent and now Director of Journalism at the American University in Cairo, has started an online journal called Arab Media and Society – it’s full of interesting stuff, including this interview with Hosam El Sokkari, head of the Beeb’s new Arabic TV channel.
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Eyetracking for online journalism
Annenberg’s Online Journalism Review has an interesting take-out on the lessons of eyetracking research for page design. There’s a comparison from one of the researchers between the New York Times and the BBC sites: I like the [NYT] content and the way they present it. The titles are succinct and look clearly like links –…
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"Investing" in journalism
Britain’s National Union of Journalists commissioned a study into the Trinity Mirror newspaper group. Here’s how the NUJ followed through: The NUJ is calling for the National Assembly for Wales to summon Trinity Mirror boss Sly Bailey to answer tough questions after an in-depth academic study exposed the serious threat to the future of quality…