Journalism

Source: news.yahoo.com --- 14 hours ago
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Source: www.salon.com --- 4 hours ago
Newsweek 's Jonathan Alter has an article this week filled with all the standard anti-blogger "pajama" platitudes (along with some praise) and, along the way, Alter writes this: But we're finding [blogging] works better for keeping on top of daily flaps than for learning genuinely new information. Bloggers rarely pick up the phone or go interview the middle-level bureaucrats who know the good stuff. It's a lot easier to chew over breaking stories and bash old media. Where do they get the information with which to bash? Often from, ahem, newspapers. Leave aside the question of how much "real reporting" bloggers do as compared to newspapers. If one looks at most of the vital disclosures of the last seven years -- whereby concealed, legally dubious behavior of one of the most secretive administrations of the modern era is exposed -- one finds that such exposure comes overwhelmingly from two sources: (1) conscientious whistle-blowers inside the Government, and (2) advocacy groups such as the ACLU, which have tirelessly waged one litigation battle after the next in order to unearth the Bush administration's secret, improper conduct. Today, the ACLU (with whom, as I've previously disclosed , I consult on various matters) released three formerly secret Bush administration memos -- two from the CIA to the Office of Legal Counsel inside the DOJ, and one from OLC to the CIA -- which set forth, in a revoltingly clinical tone that is by now ...

Source: www.independent.co.uk --- 9 hours ago
Max Mosley's calculated risk in exposing yet more details of his sexual peccadilloes in order to win his case against the News of the World has allowed the courts to send a clear message to the prurient press. ...

Source: www.malaysiakini.com --- 18 minutes ago
The roundtable talk organised by the Centre for Independent Journalism has seasoned participants discussing the need for Journalism ethics to trigger media freedom reform ...

Source: media.corante.com --- 20 hours ago
Andrea Mitchell of NBC on Hardball, talking about Barack Obama’s tour of Afghanistan and Iraq: He didn’t have reporters with him, he didn’t have a press pool, he didn’t do a press conference while he was on the ground in either Afghanistan or Iraq… you’re seeing selective pictures taken by the military, questions by the military, [...] ...

Source: surfermag.com --- 9 hours ago
Now, sitting here at the computer screen my brain feels pinned to the uppermost portion of my skull and my stomach feels like it's lurching with a ten foot swell. The wood of the Macaroni's surf camp warps and moves like an Indonesian Alice In Wonderland. ...

Source: pjnet.org --- 23 hours ago
The conclusion of the Project for Excellence in Journalism study The Changing Newsroom: What is Being Gained and What is Being Lost in America’s Daily Newspapers? says that the key to saving Journalism is high quality Journalism. Here is one section which reinforces that idea: editors remain convinced the key to their survival is a [...] ...

Source: www.ntdaily.com --- 20 hours ago
GRAPEVINE- At the fourth annual Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Writers Conference of the Southwest, UNT President Gretchen Bataille announced the name of the university's new Journalism school. The conference took place July 18-20, at the Hilton DFW Lakes Executive Conference Center in Grapevine, and drew about 425 attendees. ...

Source: www.crikey.com.au --- 58 minutes ago
Britain had a privacy law all along. Who knew? ... Young journos inspire ... Paper misspells its masthead ...

Source: www.prwatch.org --- 6 hours ago
"Media coverage of climate change is at a crossroads, as it moves beyond the science of global warming into the broader arena of what governments, entrepreneurs, and ordinary citizens are doing about it," reports Cristine Russell. She points out that the growing global warming beat offers "countless" angles for reporters to explore "on a story that is only going to get bigger and more complicated in the decades (yes, decades) ahead." Journalists, she writes, "will play a key role in shaping the information that opinion leaders and the public use to judge the urgency of climate change, what needs to be done about it, when and at what costs. It is a vast, multifaceted story whose complexity does not fit well with Journalism’s tendency to shy away from issues with high levels of uncertainty and a time-frame of decades, rather than days or months." ...

Source: www.allmediascotland.com --- 19 hours ago
Over the next few weeks, allmediascotland.com is to publish, each weekday, extracts from the memoirs of Scottish war correspondent, Paul Harris. ‘More Thrills than Skills: A Half-life in Journalism’, is being scheduled for publication next year. I was staying in the... ...

Source: TheState.com --- 10 hours ago
As cutbacks become commonplace across the country, working journalists tell me they fear not just losing their jobs but being separated from something that has come to define much of their lives — the newsroom. I also feel their anxiety. Cutbacks and buyouts have been visited upon other industries — airlines, automobiles, textiles — but for some reason the cutting of news staffs is different, and not just because I’ve spent most of my adult life in and around Journalism. Before our profession became so seemingly dispensable (and the butt of so many jokes), it was an honorable calling, a civic duty much like being a teacher or a cop. It was often difficult, at times unpleasant, work for modest pay. But it was rewarding because it mattered to us and the public. It mattered because what we did was more than stenography or impassive spectating. And for the record, “Journalism” is not pointing a camera phone in the direction of the action. That’s little more than voyeurism. ...

Source: pipes.yahoo.com --- 19 hours ago
Freelancing: If you're going to deliver late (move heaven and earth to avoid it), tell your client as soon as possible. It's easier for them to deal with a problem in advance than at the last minute. They'll be pissed off, but not as much! Tipster: Tom Stainer Got a tip? Submit it here - we [...] ...

Source: www.shopfloor.org --- 13 hours ago
Having studied up a little about the Marcellus Shale, hydraulic fracturing and natural gas regulation, we went back and read the original story in the Albany Times Union, page one, banner headline, written by Abrahm Lustgarten of the ProPublica non-profit, public interest, Journalism venture: “Upstate New York’s looming natural gas nightmare.” A couple of things jumped [...] ...

Source: www.fwicki.com --- 12 hours ago
Radwaste is now Radwaste Pictorial, as often a good picture tells the story better and some pictures are just inherently funny. ...

Source: jerz.setonhill.edu --- 13 hours ago
As traditional news organizations face increasing pressure to cut back on investigative reporting and depend more heavily on celebrity and puff pieces (cheap to produce, attractive to advertisers, accessible to a mass audience), Dan Gillmor suggests that advocacy groups such as the ACLU have an opportunity to fill the gap.  If only they were fairer to the opposing view... They're falling short today in several areas, notably the one that comes hardest to advocates: fairness. This is a broad and somewhat fuzzy word. But it means, in general, that you a) listen hard to people who disagree with you; b) hunt for facts and data that are contrary to your own stand; and c) reflect disagreements and nuances in what you tell the rest of us. Advocacy Journalism has a long and honorable history. But the best in this arena have always acknowledged the disagreements and nuances, and they've been fair in reflecting opposing or orthogonal views and ideas. By doing so, they can strengthen their own arguments in the end. At the very least they are clearer, if not absolutely clear, on the other sides' arguments, however weak. (That's sides, not side; there are almost never only two sides to anything.) ...

Source: www.racialicious.com --- 2 hours ago
by Carmen Van Kerckhove FYI - I’m live-Twittering from Chicago today at the Poynter Institute conference on “Diversity in the Digital Age.” It’s a small gathering of journalists and we’re discussing the role that diversity plays in online or new media. If you’d like to follow, check me out at http://twitter.com/newdemographic ...

Source: thot.cursus.edu --- 9 hours ago
Each human being has rights ...

Source: www.fwicki.com --- 1 hour ago
Day to Day , July 23, 2008 ? Maurice Possley, a high profile investigative reporter at the Chicago Tribune , is resigning. One of the reporters whose work led to Illinois' death penalty moratorium, he says the paper is dismantling itself in ways ... ...