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Zimbabwe: War reporting vs. travel writing
Whilst journalists like the Guardian‘s Chris McGreal were reporting from inside Zimbabwe in June (Zimbabwe’s voters told: choose Mugabe or you face a bullet), others were getting a more – well – ‘considered’ view.
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When can you use off the record quotes?
My two penn’orth on Samantha Power from the Guardian: For me as a broadcast journalist, the camera and the microphone are the record. You can’t unsay things to a recording device or speaking live, only apologise or cringe. But in conversation, different standards apply. I was at ITN in the early 1990s when John Major…
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When to keep your mouth shut
A tale to sour the lingenberries on your meatballs (yes, Scandinavian story coming up). From the Guardian News Blog: The Telegraph reports that academics in Denmark found the furniture chain [Ikea] was naming its cheaper products after Danish towns.