Nailing it
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Tweet At a rough guess, I’d say that this blog isn’t very likely to quote the free paper Metro all that often. But today’s 60-second interview is with the novelist Kathy Lette and this exchange is...
View ArticlePolysyllabic, space-filling noise
Tweet The phrase above is used by the philosopher A C Grayling in this glorious (and very funny) discussion recorded at the Perth Writers Festival in Australia about contemporary use and abuse of...
View ArticleSmall but serious item
Tweet I’m in Cairo and my breakfastime reading is either the Daily News or the Egyptian Gazette. The Daily News front page today carries the following headline, which passes the most basic test for a...
View ArticleLove letter to a web platform (Twitter, of course)
Tweet There’s been the odd dampening remark here and there about Twitter in this blog along the lines that tweeting (this blog does not follow New York Times style rules) may not be the answer to...
View ArticleEconomists vs historians (aka Harford vs Rachman)
Tweet Yet more weekend reading on a unexpected subject. There’s a glorious and entirely civilised duel running on ft.com between columnist and blogger Gideon Rachman and his colleague the Undercover...
View ArticleIt ain’t easy studying journalism
Tweet As more than 400 MA students arrive at City University London today to study journalism, what better way to mark the day than this exchange between a journalism student in Long Island and...
View ArticleIs this the best tweet ever?
Tweet This blog has very occasionally been a shade grumpy about over-inflated claims being made for Twitter as the platform that will change journalism, society, the world, the universe and...
View ArticleMaking eloquent mischief: Mencken, Murdoch and Dannythefink
Tweet Do you ever reach the end of the week gasping to read something counter-intuitive, counter to the trend or just mischevously subversive? I do. Writing stuff which takes you places that you don’t...
View ArticleTony Judt: fine writing from the shadow of death
Tweet One of my sons gave me for Christmas Tony Judt’s last book, The Memory Chalet. His choice wasn’t a hard one: I’ve wittered on for years about Judt’s perceptive and eloquent writing. But even...
View ArticleMore on churnalism, stings and plagiarism
Tweet Two illuminating interventions on churnalism and plagiarism (not quite the same thing of course) worth highlighting. First is from Chris Atkins, who produced Starsuckers in 2009 and who has...
View ArticleMiscellany: on getting used to things being free, Mamet, closure on a...
Tweet I’ve haven’t for some time rounded up a diverse collection links in a weekend post because I noticed that the readership of this blog falls to its lowest on a Saturday and Sunday. But I’ve also...
View ArticleSpiderman musical: lone editor joke
Tweet The brickbats have been clattering down on the much-touted, much-delayed Spiderman musical written by Bono and The Edge and which has just opened on Broadway. This typical review from the WSJ...
View ArticleSerendipity and Mr Kurkov
Tweet When I travel I read more serendipitously and randomly, wandering off the path I normally take through newspapers and magazines. And as I sat in trains and planes, I fell across this piece from...
View ArticleEd Milliband, Jon Stewart and Richard Clive Desmond: the humor crisis
Tweet I was going to write about the use of jokes in politics and how political reporters never cover the subject for fear of sounding trivial. But then jokes suddenly starting happening everywhere....
View ArticleThree somethings for the weekend
Tweet When I began this blog in 2010, at weekends I would occasionally do a post on a few pieces I’d read that I liked, good journalism well-written (and often contra-suggestive). These posts...
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The ever-changing styles of protest and the fashions of 2013
Tweet I’m in Thailand (at the World Editors Forum) and the news is full of protest all over the world: Bangkok itself, Turkey and in the unpredictable places where the ladies of Femen pop up and take...
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Two unconnected but inspired magazine covers (which by definition need no...
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David Hepworth’s blog, reasons to like
Tweet For the first time in a long while I’ve added a new line to the blogroll (scroll down on the right): one of several blogs written by David Hepworth, an experienced magazine editor and publisher....
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The importance – for experiment – of not being embarrassed
Tweet As news media have to re-think much of what they do by experiment, popular media should be making use of one big, built-in advantage. They don’t embarrass easily. Hidden away in this account of...
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