Johann Hari
Summary
Johann Hari (born 21 January 1979) is a British journalist and writer. He is a columnist for The Independent and the Huffington Post, and has won awards for his war reporting. His work has also appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The New Republic, The Nation, Le Monde, El Pais, the Sydney Morning Herald and Ha'aretz. Hari describes himself as a "European social democrat", who believes that markets are "an essential tool to generate wealth" but must be matched by strong democratic governments and strong trade unions or they become "disastrous". He appears regularly as an arts critic on the BBC Two programme Newsnight Review, and he is a book critic for Slate.
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Welcome to Britain, a home fit for shysters | Nick Cohen
In America, plagiarists and cheats lose their livelihoods. Our fabricating journalists and authors are allowed write on and to bully their critics.
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News websites - a bit like the web, but with fewer links
It baffles me that, two decades on, so many people in the media business still don't understand the fundamental nature of the web. The clue is in the name: the strands that make up the web are links. . .
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Forcing Hari to link only shows up how much the rest of the news industry doesn’t
The rehabilitation of Johann Hari continues apace with the publication of a column from him in GQ. I’m no apologist for him - far from it - I was critical at the time.
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The top 10 most-read stories on Journalism.co.uk, 21-27 April
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How ‘This American Life’ Let Itself Get Burned By An Apple Fabulist
You can’t say nobody warned the producers of “This American Life” that Mike Daisey’s epic story about Apple‘s Foxconn factory in China might be the work of an untrustworthy individual. Someone did, in fact, give them plenty of advance warning: the untrustworthy individual in question.
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Dacre’s list – why Mail editor’s plan for a new press card system has some merit
Just moments after counsel for the Leveson Inquiry David Jay QC said yesterday: “let us assume, Mr Dacre, that licensing of journalists may well be unattractive to virtually everybody, including this Inquiry” – Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre went on to propose pretty much just that. To everyone’s surprise, Dacre suggested that one solution to [.
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Is Paul Dacre's press accreditation plan really credible?
Mail editor comes to Leveson inquiry with surprising proposals – from anyone else, they would not have been taken seriously.
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The top 10 most-read stories on Journalism.co.uk, 21-27 January
8. Mail Online publisher: ‘If you don’t listen to your users then you’re dead’.
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Lebedev warns against 'dangers' of press curbs
Newspaper chairman Evgeny Lebedev cautioned against curbing press freedoms yesterday, warning he had seen first hand the problems of a constrained media.
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Johann Hari declines invitation to return to Independent
Former Independent columnist and interviewer Johann Hari has announced on his blog that he will not take the newspaper up 'on their kind offer' to return to the title.
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