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The Washington Post admits 50 years on - our coverage of Martin Luther King's 'I have a dream speech' was a nightmare and 'we blew it' 26 Aug 2013 | 12:04 am
Newspapers, particularly in the UK, are generally not very good at owning up to making mistakes. But, in the U.S. the Washington Post has admitted "we blew it" 50 years after its coverage of Martin ...
Quotes of the Week: From Alan Rusbridger's chilling warning to Guardian-bashers bite back 23 Aug 2013 | 05:23 pm
Image of the Week: Guardian's destroyed MacBook Alan Rusbridger in the Guardian: "The state that is building such a formidable apparatus of surveillance will do its best to prevent journalists from r...
Exaro investigative website takes down paywall 21 Aug 2013 | 07:25 pm
Exaro: No paywall as it offers data services Exaro, the investigative news website launched in October 2011, has taken down its paywall. Exaro says it is part of a move to focus on add-on data servi...
Media Quotes of the Week: From catching Usain Bolt to John Cleese's contempt for UK journalists 16 Aug 2013 | 04:00 am
AFP photographer Olivier Morin blogs about his picture of Usain Bolt and a bolt of lightning in Moscow: "I admit, with only a thumbnail view at first, I didn’t even see the lightning in the background...
John Mair: Five lessons for the regional press 15 Aug 2013 | 04:00 am
Normal 0 false false false EN-GB X-NONE X-NONE John Mair, co-editor of the updated book What do we mean by local? the rise, fall and possible rise again of local journalism, has warned "unles...
David Jackman: The local newspaper editor who went hyperlocal after he was made redundant 14 Aug 2013 | 12:10 pm
After being made redundant, local newspaper editor David Jackman set up the hyperlocal site, www.everythingeppingforest.co.uk. Writing an article in an updated edition of the book "What do we mean by ...
Paul Robertson: 'Agonising over the internet - is the regional press fiddling while Rome burns?' 13 Aug 2013 | 04:24 am
Paul Robertson, the former editorial director of Trinity Mirror North East and editor of the Newcastle Evening Chronicle, argues "that regional media businesses have spent years agonising over ‘the In...
Fowler: 'Government must act to help regional press - which should start charging for online' 12 Aug 2013 | 11:06 am
Normal 0 false false false EN-GB X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Neil Fowler, who has edited the Lincolnshire Echo, Derby Telegraph and Western Mail, says Government ministers must s...
Media Quotes of the Week: From earthquake as Jeff Bezos buys Washington Post to Michael Wolff on Rupert Murdoch's life taking a tabloid turn 9 Aug 2013 | 04:00 am
Donald Graham on the sale of the Washington Post to Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon: "Our revenues had declined seven years in a row. We had innovated, and to my critical eye our innovations had be...
Quotes of the Week: From should the BBC stop doing online news? to Daily Mail blasts Guardian 2 Aug 2013 | 04:00 am
The Times [£] in a leader: "The review — which will help to decide the content of the next BBC Charter — is an opportunity to go much farther still. Serious consideration should be given to allowing B...
