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...Meanwhile, the hunt is on for a household name to edit the Independent. Those who have been considered include Greg Dyke, the former director-general of the BBC, who hasn't worked in newspapers in 40 years; Jeremy Paxman, the host of the late-night television program Newsnight; and Rod Liddle, the outspoken former editor of BBC Radio 4's Today program, whose candidacy faltered recently amid a controversy over a blog he wrote blaming black men for crime in London. What the hunt for a famous name shows is that Lebedev does not plan to conduct business as usual...
...seems almost languid as he moves in for the kill. Jeremy Paxman's usual quarry are obfuscating politicians, but his target on Oct. 17 was Michael Lyons, chairman of the BBC Trust. Lyons, Paxman's bosses' boss, had agreed to appear on the BBC's in-depth news program Newsnight to give his explanation for staff cuts and other measures the director general would announce the following day. These would include a paring back of the BBC's much-vaunted news-gathering operation. How, Paxman wondered, could such a move be in line with the BBC's public-service mission...
...course, that's still a small fraction of the number of Britons who get their politics from the BBC. (On average, nearly 1 million viewers watch Newsnight, BBC TV's flagship late-evening current-affairs program). Doughty Street isn't ready to challenge the Beeb just yet--it's still living off $2 million donated by one of its directors--but it has grabbed the attention of the country's hoary media establishment...
Last summer, Moulton launched his own TV show, which he describes as an Arabic hybrid of CNN’s “NewsNight with Aaron Brown” and CBS’s “60 Minutes...
Reedy said the fellowship was a natural extension of her work interviewing movers, shakers and experts on “NewsNight...
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