Tuesday, December 7th, 2010

How much did it cost to hire Anni Dewani’s killer?

The price of a murder in South Africa is 5,000 rand (“about £460”), according to early reports, including the BBC. Oh no, it’s 15,000 rand (“about £1,400”). Again, according to the BBC, which quickly updated its story. It’ll be interesting to see if the 5,000 rand figure spreads through the internet, as aggregation does its […]

Tuesday, December 7th, 2010

When FOI requests are no substitute for real journalism

Here’s a great post on FleetStreetBlues about a Guardian story on the lack of ethnic minority representation at Oxford and Cambridge universities. Alongside the reported difficulty of black and minority ethnic students to gain admission to Oxford and Cambridge, the Guardian reported: “The FOI data also shows that of more than 1,500 academic and lab […]