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What role for government in changing our behaviour?
Very little, I say, as I explained in a video recorded for a GlobalNet21 debate held in London on Tuesday, July 31. Not least of the problems is the gathering, multiple crises in government legitimacy,...
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Collaborative news anyone?
I posted this in response to a LinkedIn question about reporter, collaboratively owned news operations. I dream of these as alternatives to the status quo. I’m sure their time will come. The best one...
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Artful self satire? I fear not
Face to face: satirist and journalist debate the state of British politics. Photograph: Suki Dhanda for the Observer I couldn’t help but feel the Observer political columnist Andrew...
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People’s budgets or the same-old unaccountable ones?
The basic message of Fraudcast News is pretty simple, you sort of can’t miss it in the subtitle – How Bad Journalism Supports Our Bogus Democracies. Working from back to front – the bogusness of...
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Stand aside George
People’s budgets The Chancellor George Osborne was talking of his plans to cut a further £10 billion from the UK’s annual welfare budget as I drove through rush-hour traffic to Kingston-upon-Thames....
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Demand the impossible – sounds like the least we can do
‘We’ve created some feminists!’ … A study group on the Demand the Impossible course at Goldsmith’s. Photograph: Frank Baron for the Guardian I’ve just come across this Guardian report about a free,...
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Graphics journalism as real journalism
I tried but failed to register a comment this morning on an article carried by the Global Editors Network about how the Guardian covered US elections. Something to do with captcha errors that I...
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Fraudcast News one of Green Left Weekly’s books of the year
Nice to get some positive feedback on Fraudcast News from Green Left Weekly’s Mat Ward. For me, a truly great book is one that stays in your thoughts for a long time after reading it. I thought about...
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Panel discussion: Conventional media have failed us – the case for and against
I’ve pitched this panel discussion idea to the Global Editors Network 2013 News Summit, to be held from 19 to 21 June 2013 in Paris. Cat’s chance in hell is the expression that comes to mind. Well...
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Baronista LinkedIn logo image suggestions
I recently joined the Baronistas LinkedIn group, a place for online discussions between ex-Reuters and ex-Thomson Reuters people working in communications for non-profits such as international...
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Why the media don’t understand money
This is a recent talk I gave to the annual conference for the non-governmental organisation Positive Money. A word to make clear my interests: Positive Money is an organisation whose work I greatly...
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UK book price – fixed or variable?
I’m busy setting up a print-on-demand publishing agreement for Fraudcast News with Lightning Source, part of my ongoing and rather haphazard marketing and promotion efforts for the book. I’ve been told...
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And the winner isn’t…
Development reporting suffers exactly the same sort of problems as does journalism that purports to cover conventional politics and economics – probably worse even. Too much focus on official sources...
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Snowden’s act of sacrifice echoes self immolators
Edward Snowden is a remarkable man. His decision to release a cache of top-secret intelligence documents was cooly considered for years. It will totally change his life and could even have him killed....
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Ethics in journalism? Nice idea
I wrote the following email post for the Baron website in response to an article about the Hacked Off co-founder and ex-Reuters reporter Brian Cathcart. It speaks for itself: Brian’s doing a great job...
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Fraudcast News reloaded, nearly
I am getting through the final stages of re-publishing Fraudcast News, a process that involves changing print-on-demand publishers (from Lulu to Lightning Source) to allow me a better distribution...
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Greenwald on Snowden, self and conventional media
Guardian journalist Glen Greenwald, who brought NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden to the public eye, speaks at length on the last few momentous weeks. His speech follows a series of scoops revealing the...
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L’Exercice du Pouvoir au festival de films Résistances
Yannis Youlountas avec une organisatrice du festival avant la projection de son film “Ne vivons plus comme des esclaves” – décrit comme un grand bol d’air frais et d’utopies sur la crise en Grèce.
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