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 …
“I’ve made my living as a freelance writer for over thirty years. It’s tougher out there now than ever,” writes Margaret Swaine on the comment page of the federal Copyright Consultation. “Starting with a copyright law that has sharp teeth and makes sure all writers get a royalty for work reproduced would be a great…
Patrick Grandjean a passé près de deux mois en Indonésie. Son expédition, réalisée grâce à une bourse Nord-Sud, avait pour objectif de parler de la reconstruction du pays après le violent tsunami de décembre 2004 et des accommodements raisonnables là où plusieurs religions cohabitent. Caméra, appareil photo, enregistreur numérique et ordinateur pour bagages Patrick Grandjean…
Euna Lee and Laura Ling arrived back in the United States on August 6. Arrested near the border between North Korea and China in March, the two reporters for Current TV had been held in North Korea for 140 days. North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il granted them a pardon after talks with former U.S. President…
Rupert Murdoch announced his News Corp.-owned publications — which in North America include the Wall Street Journal and The New York Post — will charge for online news, within one year. It’s not soon enough — and the blogosphere is already screaming…
CTV cameramen Hugh Haugland and pilot Roger Belanger were killed in a helicopter crash some 240 kilometres northwest of Montreal Wednesday morning. Haugland, 44, and Belanger, in his 60s, died when the chopper went down while on a flight to shoot wreckage of Tuesday’s tornado at Mont-Laurier, reported The Canadian Press. “A member of our…