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Reuters Institute launch: Al Jazeera and the English language
So what if the picture is of the Radcliffe Camera, the Bod’s history reading room? Read on, there’s a scoop of sub-atomic, blogospheric size hidden in here… To the launch of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. Al Jazeera DG Wadah Khanfar is on a panel with BBC Director of News Helen Boaden…
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Alexander Valterovich Litvinenko
On November 9th, Alexander Litvinenko was due to have taken part in a panel debate at City University to discuss the killing of reporter Anna Politkovskaya. Litvinenko was a friend of Politkovskaya’s. He couldn’t make it due to illness – an illness which is now being investigated as a poisoning. British politicians have been embarrassingly…
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Fox on the run?
According to the Huffington Post, Fox News is losing share against CNN Headline News and MSNBC. The Post ventures that the Democrat wins in the mid-terms took the puff out of FNC’s sails. Certainly on election night CNN won the 25-54 demographic, but Fox remained the winner overall. Don’t start the obituaries quite yet…
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Sky-TN
The news that Sky are buying into ITV makes me a little nervous for ITN. Admittedly £940 million is a big chunk of change and a pootling £35 million a year in savings by dumping your news provider is nothing, but… [MG]