Lara Logan’s sexual assault by a Cairo mob should have media organizations rethinking how they might better support reporters in the field, especially if they are female. Former CBC Radio News Managing Editor and NPR News VP Jeffrey Dvorkin has some suggestions about where news managers might look. Jeffrey Dvorkin teaches in the journalism program…
Interesting article from Al-Jazeera on the role the media played in the success of revolt in Egypt — and how the world maybe forgot Egypt is part of Africa and saw it more as a Middle-East issue than the reality the continent is now experiencing.
When was the last time an online media site, like the Huffington Post, told you they couldn’t pay you for the content you were offering them but, hey, they were giving you a platform to “build an audience around your personal brand” so you should be grateful? News flash, says David Carr in this column…
Instead of concentrating its reporting force in Egypt to replicate saturation coverage already available everywhere, the Toronto Star has nine journalists covering “the Arab Awakening” from Morocco, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, U.A.E., Yemen, Lebabon, Kuwait, Tunisia, and, of course, Egypt. The result is a riveting and varied text-and-photos portrait of a region in flux, including a…
Citizen journalism, public journalism, grassroots journalism, participatory journalism—just some of the terms used to describe the public’s new role in the production of news. But what do any of those terms mean in a practical sense? Field Notes editor Nicole Blanchett Neheli explains.
Vancouver blogger Adrian McNair has taken issue with a column by Susan Delacourt on the possibility of a spring federal election. Delacourt quotes Don Burroughs in her story, noting he was called by the Conservative Party and asked if he is a member, but she doesn’t say who Burroughs is. McNair says Delacourt is “stretching…
As turmoil deepens in Egypt, media critics accuse U.S. broadcasters of serving up “blather and confusion” from the mouths of “unqualified panellists.” Most columnists agree that Al Jazeera continues to lead on-the-ground coverage, despite being expelled. “The day belongs to Al Jazeera,” declared the New York Times. The BBC also stands out from the pack…
Here’s a fascinating story about how a friend of the accused Tucson shooter was treated by the media. She’s just a high-school student who, it seems, became a commodity for the news media in the U.S. after the shooting. It’s great reading. Thanks, Tom Hawthorn, for sending the link.
Mike Elk was fired as a labor blogger for the Huffington Post because he took part in a labor disruption. The guy who fired him was earning a reported $300,000 a year. Elk was earning . . . nothing. In this posting, Elk cries foul. He says he’s providing a public service. Should a pro-bono…
Twenty-six months ago, Beverley Giesbrecht was kidnapped by the Taliban in the tribal regions of Pakistan, not far from the Afghanistan border. She was a self-styled journalist from British Columbia, on a mission to meet Islamic insurgents and have them tell their side of the “war on terror.” She’s almost certainly dead and, as Claude…