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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So how did you feel then?
Just how do you look a man in the eye and ask him what it was like to watch his parents being killed? Or ask a survivor how it was when a bomb exploded? In this two-part series based on a 15-month research project, Gavin Rees explores the challenging emotional encounters journalists negotiate in their work-life — and how to get the best interviews when emotions run high.
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Whose Prince? Whose War?
In an increasingly global world, where one of the instruments of globalisation is the media, how is national interest to be negotiated with international actors? Who is ‘foreign’? Rohit Chopra looks at the crucial questions buried in the Prince Harry media blitz.
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Harry Soldier and the Order of Pressmen
Even as the British media patted itself on the back with one hand, with the other it dished out princely servings of Harry topped with every sinful dressing in the spin world. They used to call such reportage ‘plugging’ in old-school journalism. It used to be frowned upon, writes Chindu Sreedharan.
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