Neil Arun didn’t want to miss a rare but risky opportunity to embed with an Iraqi police unit, hunting members of al Qaeda. But his employers -- responsible for Neil’s security -- weren’t happy. This film by Richard Pendry nvestigates how a frontline journalist balances risk and reward.
Google has added a new section to its Google News service that aims to highlight "in-depth pieces of lasting value" culled from its regular aggregate sources of journalism. The service is called Spotlight, and it uses one of Google's infamous computer algorithms to automatically select items of "investigative journalism, opinion pieces, special-interest articles, and other stories of enduring appeal", according to the search giant.
