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Is News Over? City University journalism chief George Brock says journalists should accept changed world

Thursday, March 18, 2010

Update: Watch the whole video at this link (not embeddable, unfortunately). Journalists still have a vital role to play in society as independent, informed, editors, finders and defenders of facts. No amount of algorithmic authority will change the vital role of reporters to hold authority to account. All that’s according to George Brock, the recently-installed [...]

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Newsrewired: Journalism students should play a real role in news publishing

Thursday, January 14, 2010

What’s the future of journalism? Throwing imaginary Italian food at walls and seeing what sticks? Well, it’s more complicated than that but spaghetti throwing was the metaphorical practice recommended by City University’s head of journalism George Brock at Journalism.co.uk’s News:Rewired conference. The former Times exec kicked off the day by calling for innovation and bravery [...]

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