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Jan 31, 2013 • Correspondents have it hard. Finding stories that can hit a chord with foreign audiences isn’t an easy task. Sometimes, it’s not even the story, it’s just the Foreign Desk’s budget that is too short: so editors need to be picky when choosing for which report they’ll pay.
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Jan 24, 2013 • Spanish prestigious newspaper El País had a case of bad judgment when it published an unverified photo of an ill man believed to be Venezuela’s president Hugo Chávez. The head of state is currently in a Cuban hospital to treat his cancer.
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Oct 24, 2012 • Superman’s alter ego Clark Kent is quitting his job as a reporter at the Daily Planet. He is fed up with ‘soft’ news and wants to do ‘real’ journalism. It is therefore ironic that a multitude of newspapers and journalists picked up on the infotainment story and reported on a fictional character as if Kent’s...
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Sep 13, 2012 • As the first results of the Dutch general election came through worldwide media began reporting on a win for Europe. The Dutch chose to cast their votes on the liberal VVD and Labour PvdA parties. Their neck and neck race has led their leaders to lock themselves behind close doors and negotiate a way for...
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Sep 13, 2012 • A reporter for the Dutch TV programme PowNews was shown the door out of the café where Geert Wilders’ (anti-Islam and anti-EU) Freedom Party supporters gathered for the election night. Jan Versteegh and his cameraman were taken by security after they were told they were posing “unwelcome questions” (sic). Moments before they were expelled Versteegh...
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Sep 13, 2012 • An article by New York Times’ Steven Erlanger got some Dutch readers raising a few eyebrows when he described them as seemingly ‘melancholy and sedate’. Erlanger wrote about the atmosphere in the country just days before it elected a new parliament. Melancholy and sedate don’t seem to be words that fit well with the Dutch....
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May 28, 2012 • For decades radio world services have broadcast to its citizens scattered around the globe so that they could listen to the news in their own language and not miss out on those important stories from back home. Simultaneously, these services focussed on areas of the world where media repression or armed conflict prevented balanced intakes...
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Apr 26, 2012 • Reporting on international courts has become more of a television club attended by journalists than a media coverage. Dozens of broadcasting vans are parked outside the Special Court for Sierra Leone in The Hague area. Media from all over the world has flown in to cover one of the most gripping international cases: Charles Taylor’s...
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Apr 24, 2012 • Elections seem to have a special effect on producers. For the next 24 hours they will be working around the clock under a sort of spell which urges them to feel whatever result was achieved it will mean dramatic change. As if the rest of the problems in the rest of the world were nothing...
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Dec 29, 2011 • A recent controversy between the Dutch glossy magazine Jackie and singer Rihanna has raised once more, in my opinion, a rather important question: how much of a statement should journalism make? Jackie’s most recent issue featured an article about how to dress like Rihanna. It was titled ‘De Niggabitch’. The Barbadian music star wasn’t amused and took it to...
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Nov 17, 2011 • A new report on the future of the Portuguese public television RTP suggests all information from that broadcaster’s international service should be filtered by the government. The person responsible for the study João Duque says the promotion of Portugal’s image abroad should be within the “vision of an external policy” under the guidance of the...
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Nov 17, 2011 • Most radio journalists will have done it: voxpops. It’s this dreadful thing where you walk to strangers in the middle of the street and ask them about whatever topic you are working on: Should Greece leave the euro? Who will win the next election? Should the royal family pay taxes? Of course, as a producer...
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Jan 24, 2013
If Clark Kent is not putting up with it anymore, why should we?
Oct 24, 2012
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