Posts by Russell Brown
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Wow.
The Salvation Army professes to be completely blindsided by the news it's to take over as national provider than that the Problem Gambling Foundation has been killed off. They are understandably unprepared for the work they're now being asked to do.
It's hard to see how this isn't both a disgrace and a debacle.
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Holy crap.
The Brookings Institute this week published an extremely troubling backgrounder on the PISA results that have Hekia Parata so impressed with the shanghai system.
Short version: it appears that the system is deliberately shutting out poor, migrant students on a massive scale. On the face of it, PISA should be withdrawing its results.
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Hard News: The New New News, in reply to WH,
Ezra Klein and Nate Silver are doing something new. The opportunity is open to anyone willing to take the risk.
Greenwald's venture with Omidyar will, it seems, have more money to play with than either of them.
They've already launched The Intercept, which will be an outlet for all the Snowden documents that Greenwald holds. It's an oddly bare-bones site.
Story here.
With his book and movie deals, it seems reasonable to wonder about the way Greenwald is gatekeeping the important information he holds.
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Hard News: The New New News, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Oh no!
You’ve put my badly drawn Tommy Adderley
‘Gimme that Wine’ cover in that story
- oh well, that’s immortality for ya…Ha! Should we add a credit? Or not?
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Hard News: Things worth knowing, in reply to nzlemming,
Sounds like political savvy on his part to refuse a private meeting with a high ranking Chinese border control official.
Yes, that seems plausible.
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Hard News: The New New News, in reply to Mark Graham,
Content rules! But try convincing ad agencies of that.
Oh, quite. The whole thing's a bit depressing.
One particularly vexing thing at the moment is that some of them think "native content" is some sort of magic incantation that will make rank, unconvincing advertorial something other than what it is.
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Hard News: The New New News, in reply to The Ruminator,
*I don’t really think that, apologies if we come across that way.
And you know I wasn't talking about you.
I'm more worried about you guys eating my lunch ;-)
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This just in! What Hekia Parata actually said to the Herald on Sunday.
I have the transcript.
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Hard News: The New New News, in reply to Deborah,
So yes, better than geek culture in general, but hardly diversity central either. Emily Bell has a point, and I don’t think it should be dismissed because of one bad line
The wider point is an important one, but it seems an odd thing to pin on Silver. It would be interesting to compare his start-up senior editorial gender balance with other media organisations. It seems about the same as the Huffington Post’s, ironically – and the jobs at fivethirtyeight are much more interesting and substantial.
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Hard News: The New New News, in reply to Deborah,
I do actually think it's unfair to compare Silver's venture with Silicon valley broculture though. If you look at the list of hires he shared earlier in the month, the one-third of the editorial team who are women includes some star journalists in very senior roles (including lead blog writer Mona Chalabi, pinched from The Guardian, and NPR's Lisa Chow, who is features editor). It's way better than typical geek culture, straight out of the box.