To the Editor: I empathize with Frank Lalli, who, despite his long career in business journalism, couldn't get a straight answer to the question of how much his cancer medicine would cost.
I would have been lying if I had said I was looking forward to covering what seemed to me mundane things such as cops and courts – but, looking back, there is no doubt that my three years in New York gave me an education in journalism I could not have received anywhere else.
A journalism major could not have earned a university degree or gotten a job with those credentials.
After having suffered Pope Benedict's media-antipathy (although his red Prada shoes made regular headlines), the Italian journalism industry couldn't believe their luck when they realised there was finally a pope who could ride the bus, carry his own bag and who wasn't immune to the flu.
If you were to say to me is there some great textbook or manual that prescribes what the function of journalism is, I could not point you at anything.
Still, I understood that as president--with a myriad of pressing issues and the reality of sound bite journalism--Obama could not be the leading voice in shaping the discussion about the mixed-race experience.
Met with the devastation of Ofunato, where a massive tsunami swept away entire towns, Mr Cukier felt that poetry, not journalism, could best capture the situation.
"It's a bad thing for Dow Jones and American journalism that the Bancroft family could not resist Rupert Murdoch's generous offer," James H. Ottaway Jr., a former Dow Jones executive and a major shareholder, said yesterday.
"After looking at all of the circumstances, and in particular after seeking advice from senior leaders in BBC Journalism, we concluded that we could not broadcast a free-standing appeal, no matter how carefully constructed, without running the risk of reducing public confidence in the BBC's impartiality in its wider coverage of the story".
Understandably, a discussion of journalism and conflict in Kyrgyzstan could not avoid touching on existing interpretations and remaining grievances of the June 2010 events in the southern towns of Kyrgyzstan which were attributed to ethnic identities and divisions and left hundreds of people killed and thousands injured during civil clashes.
