Peerless photographer Annie Leibovitz may be the latest victim of America’s bad debt crisis and nationwide recession — and also, said an Agence France-Presse story, “of her own relentless artistic ambition.” “How Could This Happen to Annie Leibovitz? The $24 million question,” asked New York Magazine. “Her debts now total a staggering $24 million, consolidated…
(This post updated Aug. 22) It’s nearly a year since Canadian Amanda Lindhout and Australian Nigel Brennan were kidnapped in Somalia. The families of the freelance journalists released a statement asking for continued privacy. Previously this summer, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Canada and Australia should do more to help free them. Reporters Without…
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None of the previous incidents of censorship in Afghanistan (here and here, to cite just two of the more egregious examples) come remotely close to this week’s ban on news media coverage of Taliban violence during the presidential elections….
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Consumer reporting, when combined with investigative journalism, can issue vital public warnings and can even save lives. This is why, writes Cecil Rosner, reports about a seasoned consumer reporter who lost his job over a column that was critical of one of his newspaper’s major advertisers are especially troubling.
Dan Rather’s legal battle is in the news again, after a judge who previously dismissed his $70 million lawsuit against CBS and Viacom restored the claim. Sidney Blumenthal’s Salon.com article, Dan Rather Stands By His Story, provides detailed background on CBS’s alleged manoeuvres to suppress 60-Minute’s Air National Guard story, along with the program’s scoop…
Pierre Desjardins, professeur de philosophie, s’intéresse au déclin des journaux. Selon lui, les quotidiens se transforment en « sorte d’almanach du peuple ».
Articles recently published in academic journals that may be of interest to the journalism community: “A Fresh Crop of Human Misery’: Representations of Bosnian ‘War Babies’ in the Global Print Media, 1991—2006”, by R. Charli Carpenter, Millennium – Journal of International Studies, Vol. 38, No. 1, 2009 “U.K. Television News: Monopoly Politics and Cynical Populism”,…
Garrison Keillor’s writing can dazzle. That’s one reason I sometimes read him. Another reason is that his oddball incoherence can free a reader to cherry-pick sentences …