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Media

Is Social Media Making Journalists Lazy?

When I was a newspaper reporter, a key part of the job was finding and interviewing sources who could offer information, perspective, insight and, of course, some good quotes. It required legwork and the ability to build relationships and trust with (...)

4 Feb. 2010 | | Mark Evans

Media

25 Sep. 2009 | | Johnny Summerton

Local News

Rachid Nini: Between his Supporters and Opponents

Many things have been said about him, and several persons wrote about him in newspapers, magazines and online forums. He has been seen as a phenomenon in the field of journalism in Morocco, as his talent has been noticed since the very beginning of his (...)

22 Sep. 2009 | | Morocco Times

Media

Actual Journalism in this video. Van Jones : Apollo Alliance, Self-Decribed Communist, and Obama’s "Green Jobs" Czar.

This group, the "Apollo Alliance", helped design the Stimulus bill. Remember how Obama told us all that passing that Trillion dollar stimulus bill was "an emergency" and needed to be done immediately ? Well, the Apollo Alliance had (...)

4 aoû. 2009 | | W.C. Varones

Media

Gawker, the WaPo and the death of journalism

In yet another exhibit in the ongoing debate about what constitutes fair use online, Washington Post reporter Ian Shapira writes about how Gawker Media “ripped off” a recent story he wrote. In addition to this pejorative (and arguably also (...)

4 Aug. 2009 | | Mathew Ingram

Media

Learning Online Journalism and Writing Blogs in Helmand Province

A surprising number of Afghans blog on the Internet and even more want to learn how. Nasim Fekrat has been at the forefront of helping Afghans use modern technology to communicate with each other and the rest of the world - but it can be a dangerous (...)

3 aoû. 2009 | | Nasim Fekrat

Media

Don’t Blame Michael Jackson For All Of The Endless Media Hype And Sensationalism - Blame The Hyper Competitive MSM!

The mains stream media - newspapers, television and radio, once again went completely over the top with their coverage of the death of Michael Jackson. You will be hard pressed, even amongst Jackson fans, to find anyone who thinks that there was not (...)

9 Jul. 2009 | | Leftdog

Media

Open Source Journalism at the Guardian

A few months ago I wrote a piece called the Death of Journalism which talked about how - even if they find a new revenue model - newspapers are in trouble because they are fundamentally opaque institutions. This built on a piece Taylor Owen wrote called (...)

19 jui. 2009 | | David Eaves

Media

The golden age of computer-assisted reporting is at hand

Computer-assisted reporting or CAR has been around, well - ever since there were computers. Even when I was in journalism school (which was longer ago than I care to remember), we learned about databases we could search, etc. But the explosion of (...)

22 mai. 2009 | | Mathew Ingram

Media

The Death of Journalism ? (or journalism in the era of open)

For those that missed them, two of my favourite authors -Clay Shirky and Steven Johnson- posted brilliant pieces on the future of the news industry this week. I’ve pulled some of the best lines from both so you can glimpse at why these to writers (...)

19 mar. 2009 | | David Eaves

Media

The Web Changes What We Expect From Media

Journalism was born out of intellectual curiosity and maintained by intellectual laziness. When Johann Carolus gave us what we understand today as the first printed newspaper he did so to provide a way to disseminate knowledge rapidly, asynchronously and (...)

6 mar. 2009 | | Jeremy Vernon

Media

News : All too often it’s just a comic, not much more

I don’t think Chris Dillow is right. Chris argues that the whole sordid fiasco about the Disasters Emergency Committee broadcast suggests the BBC should stop doing radio and TV news and put the money into long form reportage and documentaries (...)

26 jan. 2009 | | Alex Harrowell

Media

The future of eyewitness journalism

The photo that captured the incredible survival of the passengers of U.S. Airways Flight 1549, a shot of passengers standing on the wing in the middle of the Hudson River and sitting in an inflatable life raft, was taken by a guy named Janis Krums, who (...)

19 jan. 2009 | | Mathew Ingram

Media

WUSA-TV’s “multimedia journalists”

Warning : rant follows. I don’t get this mad very often, but this has been building for a long time. WUSA-TV in Washington D.C. is in the news this week, because they’ve made the decision to go the video journalist route for their news (...)

15 déc. 2008 | | Terry Heaton

Media

Deconstructing the "real journalism" argument

This subject keeps popping up from time-to-time, and I wish it would just go away, because we’d get a lot further in the reinvention of professional journalism if we could get away from the belief that its an entitlement, one that’s necessary (...)

10 déc. 2008 | | Terry Heaton

Media

Smith and WaPo : What Does It Mean to Be a Good Science Journalist ?

Within one 24 hour period last week, two articles discussing science journalism and questions of evidence versus interpretation appeared. The first was a Washington Post column by Deborah Howell which tried to make "sense of science reporting". (...)

9 déc. 2008 | | Bioethics.net

Media

India : Yes, Twitter is a source of journalism

Like a lot of other people, I’ve been following the terrorist attacks in Mumbai (formerly Bombay) throughout the day, using Twitter and blog search and Wikipedia and Flickr and YouTube and pretty much any other tool I can get my hands on. Sites like (...)

28 nov. 2008 | | Mathew Ingram

International

Meeting Sayed Parwiz Kambakhsh in Prison

It is not easy to meet Sayed Parwiz Kambakhsh in prison. He is condemned because of blasphemy and any one who dares to meet him, has the perspective of being questioned or followed by police man, inside the prison. "Visitors who are visiting (...)

25 nov. 2008 | | Nasim Fekrat

Comment

The News should not be spun by editors

I think I get the whole print journalism trade. On one hand, the main goal is to inform the people. On the other hand, you need to sell papers. As a result, you try to write your news stories in an interesting manner that will both inform and entertain at (...)

3 sep. 2008 | 1 comment | Jason Cherniak

Media

"What’s The Matter With Kansas" Author Rocks

The hallmark of a great columnist is great reporting. Whatever one thinks about Rupert Murdoch taking over the Wall Street Journal, adding Thomas Frank, editor of The Baffler magazine and author of "What’s The Matter With Kansas", as (...)

2 jui. 2008 | | Merrill Goozner

Media

Are Kissinger’s Critics Anti-Semitic ?

In this week’s Times Literary Supplement, the usually engaging Niall Ferguson has a long review of a new, generally sympathetic Henry Kissinger biography. In addition to recommending the book (which, despite a few questionable assertions, appears to (...)

29 mai. 2008 | | Matthew Yglesias

Media

Lotta : Take Obama Out

Liz Trotta, a veteran journalist who helped pioneer a place for women at the front as war correspondents, was being interviewed on Fox News on Sunday by Eric Shawn, when she commented on Hillary’s Clinton’s reference to RFK’s (...)

26 mai. 2008 | | Juan Cole

Media

Moral Equivalence in the New York Times

"A picture is worth a thousand words," goes the old saying, and the four pictures used by the New York Times today, in its article on the Dimona suicide bombing, made the following statement : that there is moral equivalence between the victims (...)

23 mai. 2008 | 1 comment | Mediacrity

Media

Arab science journalists conference to be held in Fez

The First Arab Conference for Science Journalists will be held in Fez, Morocco on October 25. Journalists interested in submitting paper abstracts to be considered for use in the conference should do so by June 15. The conference is aimed at enhancing the (...)

23 mai. 2008 | | The View From Fez

Comment

Honestly examining journalism

Steve Boriss offers insight into the roots of “professional journalism” in a Pajamas Media piece called “News Should Be Neither Fair Nor Balanced.” Thomas Jefferson sought to establish a nation that featured maximum free (...)

25 avr. 2008 | | Terry Heaton

Comment

Pulling the sheet off ghostwriters

By Ricki Lewis. A report in the April 16 Journal of the American Medical Association exposes and laments the use of “guest authors” and ghostwriters on medical journal reports and review articles. A “guest author” is a researcher (...)

16 avr. 2008 | | Bioethics.net

Comment

Steyn Alone

The Ontario Human Rights Commission has dropped the complaint against author Mark Steyn and Maclean’s magazine. The complaint was baloney from the start anyway. For those who have been under a rock for the last few months, a human-rights complaint (...)

14 Apr. 2008 | 1 comment | Werner Patels

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