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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Roy Greenslade

Ben Bradlee: ass up and flat-out sick

Here's the grand old man of US journalism, Ben Bradlee, offering advice to the 2007 graduates of Columbia University's school of journalism: "Nose down, ass up, and go." Then the former Washington Post editor - now its vice-president-at-large - turned to the future of newsprint, saying he was "flat-out sick" of hearing threats to journalism's "dire extinction." (Via Columbia Spectator)

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