In these times, Britons trust Beeb best
Despite the Crowngate and Blue Peter scandals earlier this year, 61 per cent of respondents to a British Journalism Review-YouGov poll said they trusted BBC journalists “a great deal or a fair amount”, ahead of ITV, Channel 4 and up-market reporters, and way ahead of red-top and mid-market newspapers. That’s the good news. The bad news is… well, read on.
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‘Good journalism isn’t dead. It’s terribly ill’
There is a black cloud hanging over the head of the fourth estate and it is smothering journalism — surely, and not slowly. It’s PR that Nick Davies, award-winning investigative reporter and author of Flat Earth News, is talking about.
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War reporting is dead
It has been shot in the head by ‘embedded journalism’. “Reporting conflicts in foreign lands has become an extension of government justification for the war,” says Phillip Knightley, “rather than the public reality of war.”
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How the media fails India
Media is big business in India. But it largely ignores the voting classes, catering not to the 700 million poor Indians who vote but to the middle class of 300 million who ask ‘Why should I vote?’ Fulbright scholar James Mutti calls for a new model.
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NUJ seeks sensitive reports on immigrants
The UK union of journalists has urged members to “help nail asylum myths”, following concern over some reporters’ loose use of language on immigration issues.
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About a war
So Wrong for So Long: How the Press, the Pundits — and the President — Failed on Iraq lays bare the psychology of the ongoing self-censorship in the American media. There was not so much a conspiracy of silence about the war as an ideological refusal by the media to listen, see, and ask. Rohit Chopra reviews Greg Mitchell’s book.
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PR eats into quality journalism: UK study
Journalists today produce three times more copy but less original reportage than they did 20 years ago, according to a Cardiff University study. Result: heavy reliance on ‘pre-packaged’ news. “Newspapers have turned into copy factories,” a correspondent said. “This leaves less time for real investigations, or meeting and developing contacts.”
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The wisdom of the owls
In the second part of a series on the challenging emotional situations journalists face, Gavin Rees examines the techniques seasoned reporters use to interview people in distress.
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