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FleetStreetBlues post with Belle de Jour’s quote referencing the manufacture of consent reminded me to do this post. Noam Chomsky’s recent visit to the UK was immensely popular: the LSE website was inaccessible within minutes of the tickets going on sale; at SOAS a line of last-minute hopefuls snaked down the corridor outside the lecture [...]
NUJ Journalist editorship voting deadline extended
Oct 24th, 2009
[Update: Christine Buckley was elected editor...]
Due to disruption during the postal strikes, NUJ members now have until November 16 to vote for the new editor of The Journalist magazine and website.
Members and non-members alike can put their questions to the eight candidates on the Journalism.co.uk forum - and vote in an informal poll.
See the NUJ’s [...]
Chris Atkins (allegedly) threatened with injunction
Oct 23rd, 2009
Update: When following this up for Journalism.co.uk, I put the necessary calls into the law firm concerned. The individual himself rang me to deny he had requested an injunction against Starsuckers. He claimed he had never tried to injunct them: “I haven’t. Never tried to; it’s not my nature. I just wanted to make sure [...]
How on earth to balance freedom of speech as outlined in the European Convention of Human Rights with the moderation of obnoxious and damaging views?
Channel 4 News has just neatly illustrated this conflict which lies at the heart of two very high profile UK stories this week:
Jon Snow was interviewing, among others, John Kampfner, chief [...]
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- [Journalism.co.uk Editors' Blog] New Statesman: Seymour Hersh on scoops and sources November 26, 2009
- [Journalism.co.uk Editors' Blog] Job cuts at the London Evening Standard? November 26, 2009
- gregwatts on Obnoxious people have the right to freedom of speech too, don’t they?
- sarahditum on Obnoxious people have the right to freedom of speech too, don’t they?
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- SteveJackson on ‘G20 leaders’ wives’: Yes, this is 2009, and the Guardian is asking what are they wearing
- JTownend: from Dec 08: RT @journalismnews ‘DON’T BE BULLIED’, said News of the World (in 2005) http://bit.ly/sqg03 November 27, 2009
- JTownend: RT @badjournalism: Admire the understated approach PR Week have taken with this Telegraph story - http://bit.ly/8V51D3 November 26, 2009
- JTownend: @nickreynoldsatw speedy. do you have a link? cheers November 26, 2009
- JTownend: what a relief: RT @press_freedom [RSF] Somalia - Two foreign journalists released after 15 months as hostages http://is.gd/53GnG November 26, 2009
Judith Townend, reporting from the online
I'm a reporter at Journalism.co.uk; media worrier; weekend newspaper supplement and internet obsessive; would have been a florist or a pastry chef in another life. You can email me: jt dot townend at gmail dot com.
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