Tag: United States

  • View from the top: the life of an editor

    What’s it really like to head up a world class news organization? The New York Times‘ Bill Keller shares with readers the loneliness of command: Q. I think a lot of young journalists and editors, myself included, are curious about what a day in the shoes of Bill Keller is like. Can you walk us…

  • What’s Happening to Our News

    I was one of the people interviewed for Andrew Currah‘s What’s Happening to Our News, which is out today. Don’t let that put you off. Andrew’s an economic geographer – different, I guess, from a geographic economist – maybe it’s an economist who knows where he is.

  • War 2.0: the 24/7 English language news front

    In the Jerusalem Post, Mitchell Barak calls for an Israeli Al Jazeera English.

  • War 2.0: ‘Neutral’ observers, Blogs and SMS alerts

    Mads Gilbert is a critic of US foreign policy and of Israel. He also happens to be a Norwegian emergency medicine specialist who is currently working inside Gaza. As a doctor, he has shown up in TV reports describing the situation inside his medical facility. But as a critic of Israel/US policy he is under…