links for 2008-07-05
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“The majority of professors are just academic, and they lack professional expertise in the actual marketplace, which makes things even more difficult for a freshly graduated journalist trying to get a job.”
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“Journalism is run by old bastards who stick with the inexperienced and the generally untried. The contrast between thespian aristocracy and juvenile hackery was most striking to me.”
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Charles Wheeler
The Telegraph can’t help getting a sneering dig into broadcasting even as it remembers Charles Wheeler:
Sir Charles Wheeler, the BBC foreign correspondent who has died aged 85, was the last working member of the stylish post-war school of television reporting and was one of the few British television journalists to whom the term distinguished could properly be applied.
Wheeler inspired Martin Bell, Stewart Purvis, Gavin Esler and probably anybody who loved broadcasting and ever watched him report. [more…]
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links for 2008-07-04
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Channel 4 is considering a move into regional news in a bid to fill the gap left by ITV cutbacks and help increase the chances of an overall public service broadcasting settlement.
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links for 2008-07-03
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[The] development in Europe of an economically well integrated urban system largely independent of large territorial states, spurred on by the effect of the Great Discoveries … can explain to a large extent why London, an economic backwater in 800, was
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“Oversharing” - my new favourite word
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Anita Elberse - first kicks Chris Anderson, now headbutts him.
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Edmonds said the “headlong pursuit of audience figures” had not given viewers better TV and that it was up to broadcasters to do more to win back viewers. “We all know TV has lost its position of trust with the British public…”
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Tom Wolfe … said that he would have a one class journalism school. The class would be: stand in a corridor for 5 hours outside a door, someone pokes their head out the door and says, “No comment”; write 1,000 words.
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the audience for international broadcasting tunes in to be informed, not influenced. It is because of this theoretical disconnect that U.S. international broadcasting will probably remain number one in expenditures, but number two in audience size.
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The Limits of Citizen Journalism: dropping the ‘Wiki-’ in Wikileaks
For anyone interested in exploring the limits of citizen journalistic enterprise, and the economics of investigative reporting, there’s interesting news about whistle-blowing site, Wikileaks.
Wikileaks is planning to drop the wiki model entirely. In the future, it plans to pre-release selected documents to investigative journalists, then publish them once a story appears. That gives the favored reporters time to analyze and verify documents without fear of being scooped. [more…]
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My favourite Julian Manyon story
And boy, I have a few. Julian was the reporter who got the hair-dryer treatment from Robert Mugabe in Sharm el-Sheik.
Julian can take it. He’s a former colleague and most decidedly not a pack operator. Let’s just say he doesn’t rely on favours from competitors to get the job done. [more…]
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links for 2008-07-02
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Lloyd Shepherd on how news sites perform on depth
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Hulu is a sexy Internet video service, but a thin-margin, tough business.
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Let’s advertise the fact that journalism is a partial, hasty, incomplete and flawed business. The readers know it. They might trust us more, not less, if we owned up.
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