{"id":820,"date":"2008-02-20T15:54:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-20T15:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=820"},"modified":"2008-12-20T20:32:38","modified_gmt":"2008-12-20T20:32:38","slug":"award-winning-journalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2008\/02\/award-winning-journalism\/","title":{"rendered":"Award-winning journalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcaps\">F<\/span>or any blogger there is no greater compliment than the attention of you, the reader. Of course, that would probably be chucked out the window the moment this blog won an award (unlikely) &#8211; when, in true journalistic tradition, it would become \u201c<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">an award-winning blog<\/span>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve just come from the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rts.org.uk\/Information_page_+_3_pic.asp?sec_id=231\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Royal Television Society<\/span><\/a>\u2019s journalism awards (I chaired the international current affairs jury &#8211; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/programmes\/panorama\/7071859.stm\">two<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.seanlangan.co.uk\/php\/meeting.php\">films<\/a> on <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Afghanistan<\/span>, and one on <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.truevisiontv.com\/china\/index.htm\">China<\/a><\/span>). It reminded me what a small, but quintessentially decent, community broadcast news is. (And I\u2019m not even paid to say that anymore.)<\/p>\n<p>Looking back on awards, they tell you little about what is of lasting value &#8211; why would they? But at the RTS, and on other occasions, they do make journalists argue about the things they spend their professional lives avoiding, and maybe the public would have a little more respect for their journalism if they voted in secret but debated in public (or perhaps video-streamed those debates online). <\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a lot of hidden passion in journalism. Perhaps it needs airing more often.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For any blogger there is no greater compliment than the attention of you, the reader. Of course, that would probably be chucked out the window the moment this blog won an award (unlikely) &#8211; when, in true journalistic tradition, it would become \u201can award-winning blog.\u201d I\u2019ve just come from the Royal Television Society\u2019s journalism awards [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=820"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2471,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820\/revisions\/2471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}