Text from youtube "Writer Francis Spufford in conversation with Andrew Brown, discussing what it means to be ‘good’ as a journalist.
Andrew Brown is a journalist, writer and editor. He was one of the founding members of The Independent, where he worked as a religious correspondent, parliamentary sketch writer, and a feature writer. He has written extensively on technology for Prospect and for the New Statesman and has been a feature writer on the Guardian. He has worked as the editor for the Belief section of the Guardian's Comment is Free which won a Webby Award for excellence on the internet. He is currently a leader writer and member of the paper's editorial board. He is the press columnist for the Church Times. In the Beginning was the Worm (2004) was shortlisted for the Aventis Prize. Fishing In Utopia (2008) won the Orwell Prize. His latest book, That Was the Church, That Was, with Linda Woodhead, appeared in 2016.
How To Be Good is a series of conversations between Francis Spufford and five distinguished professionals in which they discuss what 'good' looks like in their working lives, how they negotiate difficult ethical territory, and how their professional 'goodness' is informed, challenged, or at odds with the Christian tradition. "
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