After the downpour in Doha

November 24, 2010

They don’t have great drainage in Doha because it doesn’t rain that often. This is a side street after a …

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In a departure from my normal blogging, this is an open letter to HSBC CEO Stuart Gulliver on why I'm firing his bank after seven painful years as its customer. Mr Gulliver pocketed a $11.1 m bonus in 2012 despite money laundering fines and poor corporate performance. I worry that our banks aren't just too big to fail but too incompetent to survive […]
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Jeff Israely, of global journalism startup Worldcrunch, pushes back on the idea that journalism has always been subsidised. I think subsidy is the wrong word, but as with many of the current discussions around the business of journalism, we're getting tripped up by the imprecision of language and some sloppy use of business and economic language. Yes, t […]
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Aron Pilhofer, the interactive news editor for the New York Times, has been quoted several times saying that the one day data journalism course he does teaches skills that if mastered cover 80 percent of the computer assisted reporting every done. ONE Day! he stresses, and he's right. Getting your feet wet with data journalism is increasingly easy, and […]
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