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Category: Media and Journalism

  • The American Interest

    So when I was at the Terrorism and Security Conference in Washington everyone received a copy of the new periodical, The American Interest. It will be published 5 times a year, and judging by the first issue it will make for some hefty reading. The contributors and editorial board are a who’s who of the…

  • Fox helps boost News Corp profits

    Beating market expectations, News Corp are doing really well: …a 67% rise in quarterly profits, led by higher earnings at its Fox movie and TV networks. For its fourth quarter News Corp made net profits of $717m (£400m), compared with $429m a year earlier, beating market expectations. Its turnover rose by 12% to $6.1bn, compared…

  • Peter Jennings dies

    While I only really watched him when RTE cut to ABC, or during big news stories, I always found to be something of a character – certainly different to the people we get reading the news over here. And so young too. My thoughts are with his family.

  • Bono and Rummy on Meet the Press

    MSNBC have a transcript of Bono’s appearance on Meet the Press…

  • Finally..

    …a well put together, decent, thought-out, genuine, weblog from the BBC (kind-of), using Typepad no less. It really is very good, I hope they keep it up after the one issue they have targeted is over. Over at Perfect.co.uk, the weblog’s writer, BBC hack Paul Mason left a comment: Thanks for that – we are…

  • John Simpson on Newsweek

    BBC world affairs editor John Simpson adds his thoughts on the Newsweek debacle.

  • New York Times to start blog?

    Could be interesting: An internal committee at The New York Times has recommended steps to increase readers’ confidence…recommendation #4 reads: “Consider creating a Times blog that promotes interaction with readers.” Jeff Jarvis is, as ever, on the case.

  • Foreign Policy May/June

    FP popped through the letterbox today, and as ever it has some quality pieces. Only some links, the website has mainly not been updated as of yet. The cover story is an essay by Robert McNamara, the US Secretary of Defence from 1961 to 1968 and president of the World Bank from 1968 to 1981.…

  • Journalism in South-East Asia

    Rebecca MacKinnon has been blogging from Laos and Vietnam, interesting stuff and nice photos, go have a look.

  • Fuckity fuck fuck

    F**k, F**k, F**k. How did you read the first three words of this post? Of course, you read ‘Fuck, Fuck, Fuck’. So what is the point of putting in the gobblies ‘**’ in order to somehow disguise the word and its meaning? F-U-C-K as four separate letters has no meaning other than they are just…