In Peace Meals: Candy-Wrapped Kalashnikovs and Other War Stories, correspondent Anna Badkhen writes about conflict and food, and how sharing a meal in “the most forlorn and violent places on earth” can be a reassertion of life itself. A review by Claude Adams.
Reporters Without Borders announced today it will help out WikiLeaks in its attempt to stay online: “This is a gesture of support for WikiLeaks’ right to publish information without being obstructed,” it said in a report.“We defend the free flow of information on the internet and the protection of sources, without which investigative journalism cannot…
The Centre for International Media Assistance, based in the U.S., has released a report on citizen journalism. This is how it describes its purpose:“This paper examines both the opportunities and challenges facing citizen journalism in foreign lands, focusing especially on the so-called purple (not free) and yellow (partly free) zones, as defined by the Freedom…
The New York Post decided to make a statement about Michael Vick, thanks to some creative photoshop. It’s cute but it sure ain’t journalism. Or is it?
Back in May, Jeffrey Dvorkin, one of the folks who was involved with As It Happens back in the 1990s, wrote in his blog about Barbara Budd’s sudden retirement announcement: “The ostensible reason for Barbara’s dismissal is because the CBC says it wants to replace announcers with journalists.” And so the result of this search…
The Journal Register in Connecticut has opened its community-focused newsroom, a place where that has issued an “invitation to the audience we serve to participate in the newsgathering process and to work with our professional journalists to address the issues facing our communities,” said John Paton, chief executive officer of Journal Register Company.With past issues of the…
The Globe’s John Doyle apparently counts The National’s “At Issue Panel” with regulars such as journalists Andrew Coyne and Chantel Hebert, as among the “most irritating” people on TV. “Blah-blah, yada-yada” is what Doyle seems to hear each Thursday night when Peter Mansbridge and the panel turns Ottawa politics inside and out, or, becomes, a…
I googled Bradley Manning today for news hits and got 9,120. Did the same thing for Julian Assange and got 901,000. Which makes me wonder why the media is so drawn to Assange but, in the entire scope of coverage, Manning — the private many, including the U.S. government — believe released those tens of thousands…
Columbia Journalism Review has posted its top errors and corrections for the year. And the winner is . . .
An article on the class website of the Journalism Program at the University of Miami makes what, at first blush, seems like an obvious point: Journalists who cover traumatic events–fires, accidents, plane crashes, etc.–must always exhibit compassion and sympathy in the course of doing their work. Rather than trying to “stay impartial,” the writer says,…