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Fake news
The fake news debate has been given a new twist in China. The Shanghai Daily is reporting on bogus journos who apparently threaten to expose corruption unless paid to stay silent: In less than 100 days, from early August to November 9, an anti-fake-reporter campaign in an otherwise little known city in coal-rich Shanxi Province…
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Weekend Business
Last night the Telegraph‘s Jeff Randall used his Weekend Business show on BBC Radio 5 Live show to converse with James Murdoch. You can hear their chat on this link. It’s about five minutes in. Murdoch doesn’t let much slip and blags effectively on behalf of Sky. The show is a legacy from Randall’s era…
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What makes reporters tick?
Some readers are convinced that certain reporters at the New York Times are motivated solely by partisan politics … reporters and editors … are not motivated by a devotion to any political party or cause.The public editor of the New York Times,Byron Calame, has been figuring out what makes reporters tick. With nearly forty years…
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Journalism’s Garden secret
This month a column that has appeared for over thirty years in The Garden – the journal of the Royal Horticultural Society – has come to an end. It was written under the name Tradescant, and every month it produced a page that let slip small details of plant lore in a few paragraphs of…