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The Holy Grail of a viable press

Dr Alistair Duff

Finding a "business model" for online news seems like a hopeless quest, but, without it, journalism will lack the funds to produce quality content

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Standing in the way of control »

Shirley-Ann Somerville

The starkest image from the 1992 general election was undoubtedly the front page of the Sun newspaper showing Neil Kinnock’s head inside a light bulb, with the headline asking the last person to leave Britain, in the event of a Labour victory, to...

Wed 17 Mar 2010 by Shirley-Ann Somerville | Read more »

Learning from our mistakes  »

The deaths of the Russian family at the Red Road flats in Springburn on Sunday, 7 March 2010 were tragic. This is a terrible incident that has impacted upon the entire local community. I met with the Prime Minister last Wednesday to convey to him t...

Wed 17 Mar 2010 by Willie Bain | Read more »

Higher Education: Gotta stay high »

Higher Education

I am always interested to hear of the latest way business has come up with to avoid their responsibilities towards students and graduates. Often we hear business representatives announcing extreme positions on how to pay for our university system. The ...

Wed 17 Mar 2010 by Kainde Manji | Read more »

NSA censorship: A confederacy of dunces »

There are few real lessons in journalism, but this is one: don’t let yourself become the story. It is doubtful that The Journal would receive a passing mark on the basis of the past two weeks, but if this publication is made to stay after class t...

Wed 17 Mar 2010 | Read more »

Do too many tweets make a tw*t? »

Twitter

Twitter has a bad name. Literally. It suggests that it is an outlet for the dreary majority to publish trivial information, rapidly and incessantly. Generally speaking, that’s exactly what Twitter is. 99 percent of tweets are 140-character brai...

Wed 17 Mar 2010 by Alex Taggart | Read more »

Lending time to leases »

Private Landlords

It might be slightly premature to indulge in fantasies of the Edinburgh's student residential area, Marchmont, going up in flames with a revolution and an accompanying chorus of "We're not going to pay rent!" —very much in the style of New York's...

Wed 17 Mar 2010 | Read more »

Up in Arms: Iran and the Bomb »

Iran nuclear 3 (03/10)

We are all, by now, familiar with the narrative regarding Iran and its nuclear programme. Iran is a theocracy that believes Israel should be wiped off the map. It is the chief global sponsor of terrorism through groups such as Hezbollah and Hamas. Equa...

Wed 03 Mar 2010 by Dan Kenealy | Read more »

Who here is in charge? »

Who here is in charge

Reform Scotland believes that the increased use of quasi-governmental bodies has eroded democracy with too much political power exercised by quangos operating in a "no man’s land", where they are neither fully democratically accountable nor fully...

Wed 03 Mar 2010 by Alison Payne | Read more »

Underpaid, overdrawn and compulsively extravagant »

Gavin Littlejohn

How many times have you been overdrawn since becoming a student? Never? Once by accident? Twice maybe? Perhaps you’re still overdrawn? If you are, you’re not alone. Recent research from price comparison website Moneysupermarket.com has fou...

Wed 03 Mar 2010 by Gavin Littlejohn | Read more »

Unpacking books from boxes »

Main library 2 (03/10)

We hear it all the time, and have done so since the invention of the internet: the book is doomed, technology will make it redundant. We have, of course, heard this for quite a while. The internet came into being in 1991 and is, therefore, approaching ...

Wed 03 Mar 2010 by Dr Harry Schnitker | Read more »

The Pot Calling the Kettle Brown »

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Wed 03 Mar 2010 by Marthe Lamp Sandvik | Read more »

Iraq: Changing Skins »

Haifa Zangana

Haifa Zangana says little as I apologise profusely for dragging her out of bed into the wind and snow of a typical Edinburgh winter’s morning. It is unsurprising. Zangana, an Iraqi author, journalist and political activist, was tortured and impri...

Wed 03 Mar 2010 by James Fidler | Read more »

Journalism's sacrilege »

Journalism's sacrilege

Every so often there comes a time as a disenchanted Catholic where I feel a sense of attachment to my faith, a pride perhaps. This week it came briefly when I read that a 20th century Spanish journalist, Manuel Lozano Garrido, was to be recognised by t...

Wed 03 Mar 2010 by Matthew Moore | Read more »

Get the kettle on »

Get the kettle on

It is a longstanding stereotype of the British national character that its people are wilfully restrained by a good-natured apathy; shrugging shoulders, cynical smirks, and the iconic remedial cup of tea all suggest an attitude of "why bother?" This fo...

Wed 03 Mar 2010 | Read more »

Good fences make good neighbours »

Good Fences make Good Neighbors

William S. Burroughs, doyen of the beat poets, once said that “in the magical universe, there are no coincidences”. What to make, then, of the improbable confluence of news that the Edinburgh College of Art (ECA) and the University of Edinb...

Wed 03 Mar 2010 | Read more »

Obama learns the three T's the hard way »

Prof. Zhiqun Zhu

Relations between China and the United States deteriorated following the recent US sale of $6.4 billion worth of weapons to Taiwan. China cut off military exchanges with the US and threatened, for the first time, to sanction American companies involve...

Wed 17 Feb 2010 by Zhiqun Zhu | Read more »

Guilt-free gastronomy »

The pleasure of good eating is not something about which I have ever felt guilty. Temporally, between when the food-laden plate is brought and when it is carried away bereft of its goods there is little space for shame or guilt. Each dripping sliver of...

Wed 17 Feb 2010 by Ben Kendall | Read more »

Let's Smurf under that racial stereotype »

Avatar

Yes, to all you Avatards and CGI-hounds, Avatar might very well be deserving of the Academy Award for Visual Effects: many congrats to the Weta Digital techies sitting at their computers in New Zealand. As for Best Picture and Best Director, let all th...

Wed 17 Feb 2010 by Iman Qureshi | Read more »

Haiti: Aftershocks »

Haiti 1

"Immediately after the shaking stopped, it was deathly silent. You couldn’t hear anything. Then, about three or four seconds later, the entire city erupted in screams. It was something I’ll never forget," says Jordan Wiley of Médicin...

Wed 17 Feb 2010 by Médecins Sans Frontières | Read more »

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