HeyJaredMedia News You Need - Curated by Peter Bale
Media and associated news curated by and sometimes commented on by me - a long-time journalist and consultant with a background at major news organisations including Reuters, FT, CNN, and Microsoft. I welcome feedback and new directions.
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Take Five-Great reads, listens, etc this week (opens the original)
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Take Five-Great reads, listens etc this week (opens the original)
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Nepal was another wake-up call on climate change, as if we needed itThe speed with which the Nepal disaster was attributed to climate change reflected a sophisticated network linking geologists and climatologists all over the world, according to what seems to be a pretty definitive piece on Science.org.Thanks for reading Media News You Need - Curated by Peter
Take Five-Great reads, listens, watches this week (opens the original)
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Take Five-Great reads, listens, watches this week (opens the original)
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Crime matriarch model for Animal Kingdom dies“Heaven sounds boring, not my sort of place.” Melbourne crime matriarch Kath Pettingill, who has died - perhaps surprisingly of natural causes, aged 91 - was pretty sure she was on her way to hell but was OK with that.Thanks for reading Media News You Need - Curated by Peter Bale! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.<input class="email-input" n
Today's Hoon podcast: Iran checkmate; Luxon as Omar; elastic climate goals (opens the original)
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Omar was undoubtedly the most intriguing character in The Wire, not least for his legendary reposte: “You come at the king, you best not miss”. Christopher Luxon is hardly a gun-toating gay Baltimore gangster, but he is a survivor of sorts.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!biX7!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F43492c49-2a29-4d6d-8e31-3bca60b6d121_316x316.png" ta
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