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The teller not the tale: link based journalism and rewrites
What value do newspapers add to information? A couple of days ago, I bookmarked this piece on product placement, from the New York Times. Basically, it’s about coffee cups appearing on the desk during a local morning news show in Las Vegas. The Las Vegas Sun reported it first on Monday: Oooooooh, they’re calling out…
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Harold Evans on the New York Times
Great interview with Harold Evans in the Independent: “Should The New York Times be redesigned? Absolutely,” he says. “To give you one simple example of newspaper design. If you have one very attentive ear, you can hear rows in New York as people try to follow a section jump, from the first section to C…
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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…