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Tag: Journalism

  • Al Jazeera English – the mouth of the south?

    James Painter has just produced a study called Counter-Hegemonic News [download pdf] – looking at Qatar’s Al Jazeera English and Venezuela’s Telesur. I have to say, in the case of AJE, I think both the personnel and the traditions they draw on are simply those of conventional foreign news.

  • The informed citizen

    As the intellectual battle to provide business models for journalism continues, so that the informed citizen can carry on being – well – informed, I thought you might like to see the latest from my favourite American sociologist Michael Schudson on journalism and democracy. And whilst I was looking I came across this burst of…

  • Revenge of the copy editors…

    Remember the majestically ireful email from irked restaurant reviewer Giles Coren to his copy editors at the Times?

  • Advice to students: be circumspect; avoid politics and superstition

    A Ghanaian journalist has some advice for students entering the business: Mr. Saeed Yakubu, News Editor of Luv FM, a Kumasi-based radio station … urged the students to be circumspect in their writing, when they come out, to avoid any legal suits.