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Fadel Shana and flechettes
Reuters has released a video (see below) showing what appears to be the Israeli tank firing the round that – it’s claimed – killed cameraman Fadel Shana. The first thing to note is the distance that Shana is from the tank, probably a Merkava 4 with a 105mm gun firing flechette rounds. Flechettes? Flechettes are…
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Pulitzer pictures…
This extraordinary and awful picture of dying photographer Kenji Nagai from Burma remains memorable months on. It won Adrees Latif of Reuters a Pulitzer prize.
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Lawyers: the necessary brake on media innovation?
Marc Andreessen remarked recently a propos the internet and the media, that most car companies didn’t emerge from horse carriage making. Admittedly that summary misrepresents the long period of development of a whole host of automobile-related technologies: fuel processing, engine development, machine tools. Reuters boss – and former lawyer – Tom Glocer has another take,…
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Arguing against Nick Davies
British writer Nick Davies is an inspiration to a lot of young journalists, and rightly so (you can read more of his writing on social issues here). But now he has moved from covering drugs and criminal justice to report on journalism. And in doing so, he commissioned some research to back up his criticisms…