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Freedom of Information: numerical junk via the BBC
Thanks to a Freedom of Information request through great new site whatdotheyknow.com, you can get a rough idea of which UK ‘nation’ paid what for the BBC, as of March 31, 2008. It’s pretty precise:
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Interns. Selecting out the news?
The New Republic on the problems of internship in journalism: [T]he internship culture … rewards young people who know exactly what they want to do and immediately begin strategizing about how to get there…
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Data is dead
Some in journalism wonder if the story as an aggregate of verbal fact and reaction is losing its hold (See Kevin Marsh – The Story Is Dead). Now Brad King has weighed in with an interesting contribution – 5 Reasons The Story Is Dead.
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The next Len Downie: A Source familiar with his own thinking?
I’m not even familiar with my own thinking, so I loved this bit of tortured sourcing about possible successors to Len Downie at the Washington Post: A source familiar with [Marcus] Brauchli’s thinking says he is eager to return to editing a newspaper, two months after being pressured into resigning from the [Wall Street] Journal,…