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My new job…and yours?
I am delighted and – yes, excited – to announce that I’ll be joining the World Economic Forum as Managing Director and Head of Communications from August. [More here.] In the new role I’ll be removing my commentary hat and travelling a lot more, so the blog will probably fall into abeyance – it’s been…
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Social Mobility and Journalism Education
As a class escapee, I’ve always been interested in social mobility. What drives it? Well, here’s an interesting analysis from the January 2009 edition of the American Journal of Sociology: Microclass Mobility: Social Reproduction in Four Countries (subscription). It should interest journalists and their social-mobility-minded offspring.