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Scotlands first online newspaper taking on The Scotsman and the Herald. Impressive.
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January 29, 2010
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January 27, 2010
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Can Steve Jobs save print? “Steve believes in old media companies and wants them to do well,” said a person who has seen the device and is familiar with Apple’s marketing plan for it, but who did not want to be named because talking about it might alienate him from the company. “He believes democracy is hinged on a free press and that depends on there being a professional press.”
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Tom Friedman on the CHinese economy
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CNN discussion of video report which showed a man dying in the street, apparently without assistance from the News crew. Explores why and the ethics.
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The rise of American foreign reporting was marked by outsized personalities and an expansive sense of mission. Today, the craft is in steady decline. But what will be lost if journalism disappears?
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"There is an irreversible trend in society today which rather wonderfully continues what we as an industry started – here, in newspapers, in the UK. It's not a "digital trend" – that's just shorthand. It's a trend about how people are expressing themselves, about how societies will choose to organise themselves, about a new democracy of ideas and information, about changing notions of authority, about the releasing of individual creativity, about an ability to hear previously unheard voices; about respecting, including and harnessing the views of others. About resisting the people who want to close down free speech."
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Independent Journalism in modern Russia
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January 25, 2010
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Edelman's ten digital ideas for the next decade
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January 24, 2010
Another Good Man down...
Local newspaper reporters don't often get obituaries in national media. Dave Berry is rightly an exception. When I briefly worked on the South Wales Echo decades ago Dave was on the desk behind me. Education Correspondent, investigative reporter, film buff and reviewer, a flair for language and the driest wit I had ever encountered. Meticulous and exacting in his journalism if not his grooming - he always looked as if he had been dragged through the proverbial hedge backwards and his asthma made him wheeze frequently. It was part of his unique charm. But he was one of those colleagues whose approval, sparsely given, was much cherished. A warm and talented man, a great reporter, and the definitive historian of Welsh film. Fondly remembered.
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January 22, 2010
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Tom Watson and Robert Amsterdam discuss use of the web by repressive governments
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Charlie L sees the next decade as a battle for control over the cloud - or to keep it open. The last decade brought to life the web’s explosive potential to allow people to create and share ideas in new ways, in a teeming cacophony of self-expression, that is both creative and crude, democratic and bawdy. The decade to come is likely to be marked by something quite different: conflict, over efforts to both extend the web’s reach, and to deepen collaboration, while also getting it under control.
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Great speech given at Washington's Newseum: "We need to create a world in which access to networks and information brings people closer together, and expands our definition of community. Given the magnitude of the challenges we're facing, we need people around the world to pool their knowledge and creativity to help rebuild the global economy, protect our environment, defeat violent extremism, and build a future in which every human being can realize their God-given potential."
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Documentary on the end of The Rocky Mountain News
Final Edition from Matthew Roberts on Vimeo.
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January 21, 2010
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Sir David Omand told the Iraq inquiry some intelligence figures were "queasy" about publishing intelligence details. The 45-minute claim was put in late and was a "bit of local colour" the secret service would allow to be used
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Mr Hoon said that he was merely a “lapsed lawyer”. Who was he to disagree with the men in braid? I yearned for one of the teddy bears to say: “Well, actually, Mr Hoon, you were the Secretary of State for Defence.” But, of course, they didn’t.
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January 17, 2010
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a hunger to win at any cost is not the main attribute of a creative or productive person. That the ability to be intelligent, think through problems, work with other people, develop ideas effectively - that all of these traits are better indicators of success
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January 15, 2010
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social media reporting haiti earthquake
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January 13, 2010
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CHris AMes and Richard Norton Taylor prequel to AC at the Chilcot inquiry
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Andrew Gilligan preview of AC evidence to CHilcot Inquiry
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