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News market fails to be as lousy as ProPublica hopes
Said one director of investigative journalism outfit ProPublica when it launched (my itals): ProPublica may help lead the way to crafting new approaches addressing the market failure that seems to be taking hold in some segments of publishing, and that threatens a real loss to the health of our democracy. Market failure, eh? Looks like…
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Supa Mandiwanzira
City alum and Al Jazeera English Zimbabwe correspondent Supa Mandiwanzira has gained something of a reputation as a ZANU-PF propagandist. He starred in a recent edition of Private Eye (1210). Now, thanks perhaps to the curse of Gnome, a report suggests he is about to be cut adrift by Doha:
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Harry Evans is new Centre for Investigative Journalism patron
The Centre for Investigative Journalism, which is based at City University London – where I work – has just recruited Harry Evans as patron. The former Editor of the Sunday Times (whose words provide this blog’s motto – see right), Evans helped establish journalism at City in the 1970s as a visiting professor. The CIJ…
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New Arab media blog
Asharq Al-Awsat‘s media editor, Faisal Abbas, has just started blogging and already has moved his blog here. Early days, but worth checking out.