While some newspapers are still screwing up the courage to jump on the Internet bandwagon, others are jumping off. Washington Post reporter Paul Farhi asks if it’s time to emphasize print and move away from the Internet. At least one newspaper has already taken this idea to the bank: Amish paper shuns web, does well…
Articles published in the most recent issue of the Canadian Journal of Media Studies that may be of interest to the journalism community: “Informed Mutual Support: Options on Violence and Trauma from the Perspective of the Journalist”, by Robert M. Frank and Ross Perigoe “Covering Democracy: The coverage of FPTP vs. MMP in the Ontario…
Well, waddaya know? Journalism’s traditional and much-criticized tendency to attract readers by emphasing negativity and localism appears to have measurable, scientific merit. According to a study from the University of Missouri School of Journalism that measured physiological responses to different types of health stories, people are biologically hardwired to pay attention to news that’s close to home and potentially threatening.
Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon has pressed his Iranian counterpart, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki, to release detained journalist Maziar Bahari, said news reports. A CBC story is here; Agence France-Presse reports here; the background on Bahari’s case is on the web site freemaziarbahari.org.
A discussion about a non-profit business model for news organizations provides some insight into a different approach.
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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