September 2010
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Life as a foreign correspondent →
kigaliwireroughbook:
Former Guardian Foreign Editor Harriet Sherwood writes about her new life as a foreign correspondent three months into the job. Previously, she wrote about her thoughts before heading overseas,
a correspondent’s role is surely to go beyond that, to dig out the stories that aren’t immediate “news”, to provide context and analysis, to allow those whose voices are routinely...
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'Towards a mutualised news organisation' →
This looks very promising. Hopefully it’ll be replicated for other topics and at other news websites.
carlosmonteiro:
The Guardian gives external bloggers the power to publish with a 50/50 ad revenue split. It sells ads against the bloggers’ pages; the bloggers, in turn, get half the revenue from the exchange.
and an interesting observation:
You would not know it from general media...
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The fact checkers
When I was watching the wires daily as an online news editor, one of top picks to read on the internet was AP’s “FACT CHECK”.
Now, I don’t know if it’s an old or new initiative, or if the other major wire services do it for their domestic markets, say AFP for France, Reuters and PA for the UK, but I think it’s a good one.
I suppose it’s generally fair to...