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There are around 200 links each month, including in this month's edition:

In the December 2007 edition of Useful Stuff:

- TV’s emphasis on how female anchors look

- The future of journalism

- The most dangerous war in the history of journalism

- Nationwide journalism conference to run in Kyrgyzstan

- Seventy convicts have received certificates in journalism

- Report looks at citizen journalism during Burma crackdown

- What Muslim journalists think about the UK media

- Afghan women are finding a voice in world of journalism

- The cricket journalist's dilemma

- Tycoon Trump's on-air radio wind-up

- London gets new Polish radio station

- Happy 40th birthday, BBC Local Radio

- Channel 4 targets BBC radio

- New national Heart brand at centre of Global bid for Emap Radio

- Internet is the new radio

- Nanotube made into world's smallest radio

- A clock radio that never forgets

- The death of the BBC radio newsroom

- U-turn on BBC radio news rebrand

- TV has key part to play saving planet, says Gore

- Science presentation to air on television

- Doctoral thesis: children learn sciences from television

- Patriotism values on Indian television

- No news is bad news: research shows television stations under ...

- The excesses of voyeuristic television

- British television sweeps international Emmy awards

- A new twist to television drama: you get to choose the ending

- Book programmes on television are pointless

- Questioning the 'reality' of reality television

- The need for responsibility in religious programs on television

- TV violence may spur aggression in boys

- The future of black television

- The dream job in British television that no one seems to want

- Are the corporate suits ruining TV?

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