Independent
Andrew Keen on New Media
We have between five and 10 years to save journalism. That's the stark message in SuperMedia: Saving Journalism So It Can Save The World (Blackwell) the provocative new book by Charlie Beckett, the founding director of POLIS, the London School of Economics based think tank about journalism and society.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/andrew-keen-on-new-media-847668.html

Financial Times
Singapore: Global links help talent pool flourish
Article about the University of California at Berkeley’s connection with the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), the city-state’s de facto central bank, which led to the regulator sending some of Singapore’s best and brightest students and professionals to hone their skills and pursue specialised programmes The London School of Economics and Columbia University are among other top institutions to enrol a few of the scholars.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/c3c06696-38ee-11dd-8aed-0000779fd2ac.html

Analysis: Jobs found outside Wall Street and City
This year European business schools have launched, or will launch, nine specialised masters degrees in finance – schools such as Cass Business School and the London School of Economics in the UK and EM Lyon and Edhec in France.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/c5e1bd3a-38ee-11dd-8aed-0000779fd2ac.html

Indian Law Journal
University review of the month
LSE features this month.
http://indialawjournal.com/issue_3/london_school_of%20_law.html

Sunday 15 June

Financial Express
The trappings of a city
More than half of the world’s population (three billion people) lives in cities, according to ‘Integrated City Making’ — a report by the Urban Age programme at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). In India, approximately 300 million people live in urban areas today and account for over 30 per cent of the population, contributing to over 90 per cent of the GDP. It is estimated that India’s urban population is likely to triple in the next two decades, according to the report.
http://www.financialexpress.com/news/The-trappings-of-a-city/322846/
Also in
• Economic Times
Stretching highway of investment
A recent report, Integrated City Making, brought out by Urban Age programme of the London School of Economics and Political Science, states how some big Indian cities are caught in a cusp between the globalised world economy and the dislocations that follow in its wake.
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/Special_Report/Stretching_highway_of_
investment/articleshow/3130043.cms

Sunday Herald
Labour’s poverty scandal
When Labour first addressed child poverty in 1997, they centred on a definition by the London School of Economics’ professor of social policy, Peter Townsend. Relative poverty was crucial because no-one should live with ‘resources that are so seriously below those commanded by the average individual or family that they are in effect excluded from ordinary living patterns, customs and activities’.
http://www.sundayherald.com/oped/opinion/display.var.2342309.0.labours
_poverty_scandal.php

Seeking Alpha
Speculation and the price of oil
Among the gentlemen claiming that excessive speculation is responsible for the bad oil news being experienced by the buy side of that market, are the billionaire financier Mr George Soros (who admits that he is not an oil market expert, and that the oil price bubble has strong fundamental underpinnings), the influential television personality Mr Bill O’Reilly, and Lord Megnad Desai, who is a professor of economics at the London School of Economics.
http://seekingalpha.com/article/81394-speculation-and-the-price-of-oil

Telegraph
Shami Chakrabarti: Why David Davis is right
The LSE governor and alumna gives her views.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/2133941/Shami-
Chakrabarti-Why-David-Davis-is-right.html

Saturday 14 June

The Age, Australia
No hair of the dog for UK banks
Professor Charles Goodhart, the program director of regulation and financial stability at the London School of Economics, and a former member of the Bank of England's rate-setting Monetary Policy Committee, sees a link between B&B and three other beleaguered British banks: Northern Rock, which was nationalised in February after a subprime-related liquidity crisis, HBOS — the BankWest owner whose £4 billion rights issue is looking shaky, and Alliance & Leicester — which looks set to slip out of the FTSE 100 amid fears over its earnings and dividend. Their link? All are former building societies that have demutualised and floated in the past decade.
http://business.theage.com.au/no-hair-of-the-dog-for-uk-banks-20080613-2
qaa.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1

Stuff.co.nz
Honouring a Kiwi genius
Modest, friendly and helpful, Dannevirke-born farm boy Bill Phillips was also ‘undoubtedly a genius’, who deserved a Nobel Prize, Reserve Bank governor Alan Bollard says. Fifty years ago, Dr Phillips wrote what became the third most cited piece of economic work ever written, about the link between employment and inflation known as the ‘Phillips curve’. He called it ‘a wet weekend’s work’. It was written in 1958 while Dr Phillips was an economics professor at the London School of Economics.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4583592a13.html

Guardian
Need a new mortgage? It's your call
If you have a mortgage you are happy with, be very thankful - because trying to find a new deal has become a ‘nightmare’. With bank share prices falling faster than Gordon Brown's approval ratings, and the economic predictions for interest rates seemingly changing on a daily basis, you almost need a degree from the London School of Economics to work it out.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2008/jun/14/mortgages.property2

Late-edition headlines

International Herald Tribune
Irish voters reject EU treaty
Libertas and other opponents of the treaty capitalized on voters' confusion, their disillusionment with the government and their feelings of alienation from the institutions of Europe, which is the source of about 85 percent of the new laws passed in Europe every year, said Michael Bruter, a senior lecturer in political science at the London School of Economics. ‘It's a pro-European country, but they didn't understand the treaty - why it was needed, what it was going to change,’ Bruter said, speaking of the Irish voters. ‘They just don't want to give Europe a blank check anymore.’
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/06/13/europe/union.php

Public Finance Magazine
Director for our times
PF’s round table brought together finance directors from across the public sector, their financial regulators and policy experts to assess what lies ahead for the profession. Tony Travers, director of the Greater London Group at the London School of Economics, chaired the event.
http://www.publicfinance.co.uk/features_details.cfm?News_id=33114

Spectator Business (29 May)
Shying away from the regulatory reflex
Article looks at a lecture and a co-authored book, both by Howard Davies, School director.
http://www.spectator.co.uk/business/the-magazine/books/740581/shying
-away-from-the-regulatory-reflex.thtml

LSE people on TV/radio

BBC 6 o’clock news
Ireland votes to reject EU treaty
Simon Hix, professor of European and Comparative Politics at LSE, was interviewed for this segment of the programme on Friday 13 June.

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