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Transnational news traffic
So is online helping British journalism colonise the US? FishbowlNY’s take on a Guardian piece certainly makes it look that way: # The Daily Mail saw online traffic increase 31% for Mail Online compared to 01/07.# The Guardian’s traffic increased by 25.5%.# Rupert Murdoch’s highbrow/lowbrow Times of London and The Sun saw traffic up 38%…
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Award-winning journalism 2
Lots of excellent journalism on display at the Royal Television Society last night. But another plug for Guardian photographer Sean Smith and his work from Iraq, which won the international news award.
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Covering disasters
Went to Oxford last night to hear Glenda Cooper’s excellent Guardian lecture about covering disasters and the collusion between journalists and aid agencies, among other things. Potted version here. Will post more when it’s all online.
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David Leigh on the future of reporting
Friends of Anthony Sampson gathered last night to hear the new professor who has a chair in his name, David Leigh of the Guardian. There were over four hundred people packing the venue – standing room only – for his inaugural lecture, The End of the Reporter. Ironically, David doesn’t lecture to the masses at…