Arianna Huffington’s new book contends new and old media “are rapidly joining together to bring out the best in each other,” said a Reuters story, based on a pre-book-launch interview with Huffington. But Huffington, whose Huffington Post makes her the unrivaled queen of blogging in the America, couldn’t resist a swipe at mainstream media in…
Hours after BBC journalist Kate Peyton arrived in Mogadishu, she was shot in the back and died. That was in February, 2005, and now a coroner’s report concludes she didn’t want the dangerous assignment, but took it because “she felt that her job would be on the line if she didn’t take it,” according to…
A new, quirky movement, slow blogging, aims to “reject immediacy” and embrace “a willingness to remain silent amid the daily outrages and ecstasies that fill nothing more than single moments in time.”
“Newspapers and news magazines should seek to revitalize the provincial/regional press councils and ensure that identifiable groups are able to pursue complaints if they feel they have been unfairly represented in mainstream media,” declares an independent report about online hate speech, released by the Canadian Human Rights Commission…
“When technology shifts, it bends the culture,” observes Wired writer Kevin Kelly in a long, thinky piece in the New York Times Magazine’s Idea Lab section…
You can almost hear the huffing and puffing of the unsigned Canadian Press reporter who wrote about the “forced march” engineered by Pauline Marois. “Bleary-eyed and freezing, a group of journalists was forced to follow Parti Québécois Leader Pauline Marois for her regular morning walk under a dark pre-dawn sky,” reported CP plaintively. Marois had…
Newsflash: “China tells state media to report bad news.” The news was a Reuters scoop. What next? Journalism instead of propaganda?
“Media ban lifted on Ottawa prof’s bomb hearing.” Quite so.
Editors Weblog reports that Chris Cramer, Reuters’ global editor of multimedia for news, says “the editorial integrity of journalism is “threatened” by traditional and citizen journalists using the Internet to “distort” information …
Non-Citizen Black wants a Get-Out-Of-Jail-Free Christmas present from outgoing U.S. president George W. Bush. From the Globe and Mail: “NEW YORK, TORONTO — Conrad Black is pinning his hopes on clemency from U.S. President George W. Bush as a last-ditch effort to get out of jail early, and he wants his former publishing company to…