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- Joseph Kahn and the Stewardship of The New York Times
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- The Publisher Always Wins – A Jill Abramson Biography
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- Linton Besser: A Reporter and the Paper Trail
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- The Dean of Revolutionary Scholarship: Gordon S. Wood, 1933-2026
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- WEHT to Investigative Journalism?
- The Genius Myth: The Dangerous Allure of Rebels, Monsters and Rule-Breakers
- When Radio Hosts Transition To Podcasts
- The Jeremy Paxman Voice
- The David Dimbleby Voice
- The Krishnan Guru-Murthy Voice
- The Voice of Lyse Doucet (BBC World News)
- The Voice of Yalda Hakim (Sky News)
- The Yves Montand Voice
- The Voice of BBC Newsreader Clive Myrie
- The Tom Bradby Voice (ITV Newsreader)
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Author Archives: Luke Ford
The Genius Myth: The Dangerous Allure of Rebels, Monsters and Rule-Breakers
Philosophers Daniel Kodsi and John Maier write: The greatest mathematicians, scientists, and writers in history have been unusually smart and creative people. But do great intellectual achievements depend on unusual mental abilities alone? For instance, would Jane Austen still have … Continue reading
When Radio Hosts Transition To Podcasts
The clock disappears first. Radio runs on a rigid frame built around ad breaks, the top-of-hour news, traffic and weather on the eights. A host’s whole craft sits inside that frame. He learns to hit posts, tease into breaks, fill … Continue reading
The Jeremy Paxman Voice
Jeremy Paxman (b. 1950) built a public manner out of impatience. The voice carries it first. He speaks in educated southern English with a faint Yorkshire underlay, the product of Leeds, Malvern, and Cambridge sanded down by decades of London … Continue reading
The David Dimbleby Voice
David Dimbleby (b. 1938) speaks in the old BBC register, the patrician received pronunciation that his father Richard Dimbleby (1913-1965) helped fix as the sound of national occasion. The voice sits low and resonant. He keeps the pace slow and … Continue reading
The Krishnan Guru-Murthy Voice
Krishnan Guru-Murthy (b. 1970) carries a voice that works against the grain of British political interviewing. The old anchors built authority on weight. Dimbleby had the timber, Paxman the growl, and both let the instrument do half the intimidation. Guru-Murthy … Continue reading
The Voice of Lyse Doucet (BBC World News)
Lyse Doucet (b. 1958) speaks in a way that listeners recognize before they catch her name. The voice carries a Canadian base, softened by decades in London and the Middle East, and it lands in a register that resists easy … Continue reading
The Voice of Yalda Hakim (Sky News)
Yalda Hakim (b. 1983) speaks in a voice built for the anchor desk and the war zone at once. She carries an Australian base under a layer of mid-Atlantic broadcast polish, the accent you hear in presenters who train in … Continue reading
The Yves Montand Voice
Yves Montand (1921-1991) sang and spoke with a baritone that carried the weight of a working man. He was born Ivo Livi in Italy and raised poor in Marseille, and the Mediterranean stayed in his throat even after he scrubbed … Continue reading
The Voice of BBC Newsreader Clive Myrie
Clive Myrie (b. 1964) speaks in a baritone that sits low and stays level. The voice carries weight without strain. He never pushes it. When he reads the news at ten, the pitch barely moves, and that steadiness does the … Continue reading
The Tom Bradby Voice (ITV Newsreader)
Tom Bradby (b. 1967) anchors with a voice built for confidence rather than authority. The two differ. Authority commands. Confidence invites. Bradby leans toward the second. He speaks to the camera as a man might speak to one person across … Continue reading