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The Queen
Thanks to the Guardian, the promo that the absurd BBC row was about… First point – is she really having a go at Annie Leibovitz? It sounds like royal joshing… Second point – it certainly doesn’t show her walking off in a huff, it’s just a simple shot transposition that could make you leap to…
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Paid content – the British newspaper experience
My colleague Neil Thurman has spent the last few months talking to online editors across the UK about how they see their businesses. That research, with the snappy title Paid content strategies for news websites: An empirical study of British newspapers online business models, is out now. You can download a preview here. The headlines?…
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Facts and opinion
The famous line of C.P.Scott, editor and the proprietor of the Guardian – “comment is free, but facts are sacred” – is immortalised not just in the Guardian‘s op-ed, but also in SacredFacts, Richard Sambrook‘s blog. Scott was in his seventies when he wrote the essay from which the line is taken, back in 1921.…
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James Cameron remembered
Tonight at the 21st James Cameron memorial event, some excellent things. In order: An award for Ghaith Abdul-Ahad of the Guardian – terrific, I was lucky enough to get him on TV when I was at five. An absolute class act – architect/ photographer/ storyteller. An award for Peta Thorneycroft, redoubtable Zimbabwe correspondent of the…