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May 15, 2007
- Posted by Heather
McCall
This CNNMoney.com story provides an overview of the recent wheeling and dealing between News Corp./Dow Jones and Thomson/Reuters and suggests why there may be more mergers on the horizon.
May 14, 2007
- Posted by Heather
McCall
The Toronto Star's David Olive claims that The Wall Street Journal would do better in the hands of business-savvy News Corp. than the stagnant Dow Jones.
May 14, 2007
- Posted by Bill
Reynolds
Alan Mutter, on his blog, Reflections of a Newsosaur, denounces the 24-hour online news desk as "the worst idea for newspapers" in the last decade. Mutter argues that having reporters and editors do quick stories for the Web takes away from "the time they need to consider - and report on - the major issues affecting their communities." Mutter thinks newspapers should focus on the big stories and service journalism, not "quickie" hits, to attract younger readers.
May 07, 2007
- Posted by Heather
McCall
The host of CBC Radio's "The Current," Anna Maria Tremonti, reflects on the state of accountability in journalism, both overseas and in Canada. The Embassy piece ran shortly after Tremonti gave a lecture to Carleton University journalism students on the subject.
May 07, 2007
- Posted by Heather
McCall
This video titled "The Maching is Us/Using Us," created and uploaded to YouTubeby Michael Wesch, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University, summarizes the development of the web from text-based HTML to complex Web 2.0 applications.
May 03, 2007
- Posted by Heather
McCall
Editor & Publisher's Steve Outing reviews coverage of the Virginia Tech massacre and makes the following claims: "Traditional media have a hard time reporting outside of their own boxes, and when it comes to a really big news event it is to the detriment of public knowledge. Also, the public demands everything that media knows about an event of this magnitude -- immediately -- while accusing news outlets of offering too much."
May 02, 2007
- Posted by Heather
McCall
After complaints to the Access to Information Commissioner, the government released a heavily-edited version of a Foreign Affairs report entitled "Afghanistan-2006; Good Governance, Democratic Development and Human Rights." Paul Koring compares passages from an unedited version of the report - obtained by the Globe and Mail - with their edited counterparts and finds a "consistent pattern of excising negative findings or observations from the report with positive ones left in."
May 02, 2007
Mark Glaser of MediaShift at pbs.org imagines a local newsroom that has one overriding goal: “Serve the public by collaborating with them and delivering the news they want on the platform of their choice.” How, he asks, would such a newsroom work "without the weight of a legacy media outlet, without the history of management and circulation and broadcast towers and every other piece of infrastructure that is ingrained in the institutional memory of so many old media operations?" He has some answers -- and predicts that yes, money can be made in this way.
May 01, 2007
Bill Moyers talks to Terry Gross of NPR's Fresh Air about newsroom deliberations and post-9/11 psychological trauma that, in his view, led most of the Washington press corps to buy into the Bush administration's arguments for war in Iraq. He also implies that reporters have lost their professional compasses. Journalism's task, he says, is not to "split the difference" between contrasting opinions, but to "get as close as possible to verifiable truth."
Apr 26, 2007
- Posted by Heather
McCall
In the wake of the Virginia Tech shootings, Poynter looks at how many news organizations favoured a blog-like reporting style over the traditional article format. A companion piece blog entry from Chip Scanlan is also linked to from the story.
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