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Paul Holmes in negotiations with China’s associate foreign minister on the terms of Reuters’ coverage of China business sector. Source: China Consulate San Francisco.

 

Via e-mail: The Berkman Center’s Global Voices Online project carpets the bleachers with astroturf for a Reuters debate on United Nations reform:

 

In conjunction with Reuters, Global Voices are going to engage in conversation with the U.N.’s largest private donor, media mogul Ted Turner.

 

So this is the quid pro quo? Aside from featuring Reuters’ RSS feed on its site, that is. The “aggressive hand-raising” by shills in the audience should provide a glimpse of the extent to which GVO carries water for U.S. policy and Reuters’ business interests on this issue.

 

HOW TO JOIN US ONLINE: On Tuesday September 19th at 19:00 GMT (4pm New York time), Ted Turner will sit down with Reuters journalist Paul Holmes and conduct a conversation which will be webcast live online.

 

To be more precise, Holmes is Worldwide General Editor of Political and General News at Reuters, in charge of reforming its editorial standards and practices, and a former Jerusalem bureau chief, not a rank-and-file beat reporter.

 

That is significant because Reuters is a veritable poster child for the way in which senior editor-managers in the “new media” vein — let’s call them “content managers” rather than journalists, shall we? — are steadily diverging from the traditional journalistic standards defended by the rank and file — though for some reason you will never see Reuters holding a public debate about its own labor practices.

 

Holmes also seems to be a key man in whatever Reuters’ intentions for “citizen media” turns out to be, having made the rounds of quite a few blogging punditry panels since his appointment, such as this panel with Steve Rubel of Edelman Worldwide, which represents a number of foreign governments, I believe.

 

 

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