Expenses – MPs vs journalists

Published in May 12th, 2009
Posted by Louise in Issues, Journalism
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National treasure Stephen Fry has waded into the debate about MPs’ expenses, claiming that MPs are not really doing anything much wrong, and stating very bluntly that journalists are far worse when it comes to fiddling expenses. I have news for Stephen. The expenses culture for journalists ended a long time ago – at least [...]

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JEEcamp 09 – some thoughts

Published in May 9th, 2009
Posted by Louise in Journalism, Media, News
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I took part in the second JEEcamp in Birmingham yesterday. Last year, it was very much an experiment to see what might happen if you stuck 50 journalists in a room and let them unconference for a day about how to create a new journalism for the future. I’d been mapping plans for an online [...]

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Blogging against disablism

Published in May 1st, 2009
Posted by Louise in Blogging, Issues
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Did you know that one in six people in the UK has a disability of some sort? No? Neither did I until quite recently. It’s a shocking statistic, not so much because of the figure of 17%, but because disability is so underreported that when it does make the press people’s life stories become stereotyped [...]

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