Archive for February, 2011

My inaugural lecture: Is Ice Cream Strawberry?

I’ll be presenting my inaugural lecture at City University on March 3 – the title is “Is ice cream strawberry? Journalism’s invisible history – and conflicted future” For once the decision on what to speak on was entirely up to me, hence the cryptic title (the original title was ‘I’m Not Going To Talk About Technology’). It’s quite a wide-ranging
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Sources fight back: fabrication, complaints, and the Daily Mail

Juliet Shaw writes in a guest post on No Sleep ‘Til Brooklands about her experience of fighting The Daily Mail through the courts after they published an apparently fabricated article (her dissection of the article and its fictions is both painstaking and painful). There is no happy ending, but there are almost 100 comments. And once again you are struck
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Why journalists should be lobbying over police.uk’s crime data

Conrad Quilty-Harper writes about the new crime data from the UK police force – and in the process adds another straw to the groaning camel’s back of the government’s so-called transparency agenda: “It’s useless to residents wanting to find out what was going on at the house around the corner at 3am last night, and it’s useless to individuals who
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