"My father was a journalist for 50 years……" — Lionel Barber
"My father was a journalist for 50 years in Leeds and Fleet Street. I thought about a career in business to show I could do something different, but the reaction among prospective employers was, shall we say, underwhelming."
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Lionel Barber
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11 Quotes by Lionel Barber
Lionel Barber has 11 quotes on this site.
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Our U.S. audience is composed of globally-minded Americans, an elite category, the ones who do have passports, the decision-makers, senior…
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While the web is very much the first draft of history, a rough-cut, it still has to be good journalism,…
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All our reporters and editors now work seamlessly in print and online. This integration has transformed the way we work.…
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My own special relationship with America began at an early age. My father, a fellow journalist, named me after Franklin…
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The post-war American newsroom resembled a vast factory churning out multiple editions through the night. Reporters spent days, sometimes weeks,…
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The advent of the Internet exposed the fact that the old business model for newspapers was broken. The world wide…
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Thanks to social media such as Facebook and Twitter, a far wider range of people take part in gathering, filtering…
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As a cub reporter, I devoured books about journalism.
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In the summer of 2009, I modestly predicted that most major news organisations would be charging for content within 12…
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For the BBC and others, a free website is an obvious and relatively cheap addendum to their main purpose of…
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