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Reuters Institute launch 2
No sign yet of a language guide to go alongside the ethics statement at Al Jazeera. But, searching their archive of print stories online, they have reported a suicide bombing at Netanya in Israel as a bomber has blown himself up – which to me implies incompetence rather than intentionality. In the same report they…
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Reuters Institute launch: Al Jazeera and the English language
So what if the picture is of the Radcliffe Camera, the Bod’s history reading room? Read on, there’s a scoop of sub-atomic, blogospheric size hidden in here… To the launch of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. Al Jazeera DG Wadah Khanfar is on a panel with BBC Director of News Helen Boaden…
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Fox on the run?
According to the Huffington Post, Fox News is losing share against CNN Headline News and MSNBC. The Post ventures that the Democrat wins in the mid-terms took the puff out of FNC’s sails. Certainly on election night CNN won the 25-54 demographic, but Fox remained the winner overall. Don’t start the obituaries quite yet…
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Al Jazeera English – Arab reaction
On the day Al Jazeera English launches where better to visit than the offices of a leading Middle East newspaper? There is a complete absence of excitement at the launch of the new service. Although Al Jazeera’s international profile remains high, its Arabic channel has lost out in its own backyard to Dubai-based channel Al…