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Jonny Vaughan is staying at Capital…I knew I was lousy at gossip.
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Much huffington and puffington over the FCC‘s decision to bury a report on media ownership. Burying reports is – of course – plain dumb. The report in question, from 2003, analyzed over 10,000 news stories from five years before. FCC economists found that “local ownership adds almost five and one-half minutes of local news” per…
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Over-egging the pudding
Some of my favourite writers are unreliable. Ryszard Kapuściński isn’t one of them. Favourite writers, that is, because he was certainly unreliable. In a touching tribute, Jack Shafer in Slate reminds us that RK wasn’t a real journalist because he made things up. Shafer reheats John Ryle‘s critique of Kapuściński. This is the thrust of…
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craigslist…
Craig Newmark has this advice for journalists… The central requirement for news organizations has to be trust. Which version of a story can be trusted? As a consumer of news, this core issue of how to establish—and maintain—trust can be frustrating. For example, when I watch interviews and can tell when a reporter knows someone…