BBC local web video could boost local news diversity

Peter Preston in his Observer media column today writes about the BBC’s plans for local on-demand web sites with up to 20 minutes a day of video and the opposition from the regional newspaper giants. “It is,” he…

BBC sparks culture of confession

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It is confession time. Cabinet ministers are queuing up to admit to smoking cannabis and BBC producers are admitting they misled their audiences. Today the culture of confession is spreading to newspapers, with Mark…

Blog danger for newspapers

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Things happen but it is difficult to see how the Telegraph came to post a blog story on the levels of postal voting in the Ealing Southall by-election the day before polling.
As any journalist who has spent a few…

Sibling rivalry in Clerkenwell

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Stephen Glover in the Independent today takes some pleasure from the Guardian’s Ben Goldacre dismantling of a story on autism and MMR in the Observer. I suspect Glover must have written about the sibling spat before…

The spoiling of an exclusive

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The story of the Manchester Evening News reporter who got a leaked document, rang up the Association of Greater Manchester Authorities for a comment, and was surprised when they released the contents to all and sundry…

Gay can mean something else

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Stories about the dangers of using find and replace on copy have been around ever since writers started using word processors, but I like this one from the Carpetbagger Report.
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