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- When one man spotted what all news media missedby Silvia CosteloeOn 15 February, the worst prison fire in a century consumed an overcrowded jail in Honduras killing 361 people. Dramatic pictures were broadcast extensively on mainstream media outlets, including the BBC, to tell the story - until, thanks to one member...
With the CBI predicting the UK will avoid a double dip, brief yourself on reporting the economy with Hugh Pym's video guide
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How free will Russia's new public service TV channel be?by Stephen EnnisOutgoing Russian President Dmitriy Medvedev has ordered the creation of a new public service television station to come on air on 1 January 2013.... -
How news consumption has changed from beats to a constant staticby Paul BradshawIn 2007, Paul Bradshaw's A Model for the 21st Century Newsroom described how the old production line model for news was meeting a networked mode of... - Journalism innovation award: last chance to enterby David Hayward
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Explaining the economy: try harder
The audience is very interested in the economy. A survey carried out by professor Stephen Schifferes' team at City University in London found that 75% of the people polled said they followed news about the state of the economy.
But the bad news is that nearly half of them said they didn't understand it. Professor Schifferes shared his findings with a CoJo Wednesday lunchtime audience.
Beware 'ferrets in a sack' reporting
Concentrating on the "ferrets in a sack punch-up that we've had over Livingstone and Johnson" is lazy journalism, according to the BBC's editor of political research and analysis, David Cowling.
"People from Orkney to Plymouth are voting in the May 2012 local elections and that is going to be a much truer picture of support for the political parties" than the "Boris and Ken show", he said.
David Cowling was speaking at a CoJo Wednesday lunchtime session on the mayoral referendums, taking place in ten English cities, and local elections.
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