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Re: Journalists

But in a newspaper (or whatever El Reg should be called) - even a subject specific one rather than a general one - not all the content should be news. You want a mixture of straight news, analysis, comment and interesting stuff.

Incidentally I highly recommend Cooke's 'Letters from America'. The Beeb have put about 900 of them out as podcasts, in series. Which I listened to all of many years ago before I had too many podcasts to get through. He's rather repeating himiself by the 1980s, but some of the stuff on the 50s (plus references back to the 20s and 30s is very interesting and his coverage of the 60s and 70s is also great. Because his podcasts were always meant to be about taking a step back from the current news stories - and maybe trying to add some historical context - they haven't dated in the way that straight news output does.

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