The Writers’ Union of Canada has sent an open letter to Gary Lunn, federal Minister of State for Sports, expressing concern about the way Chris Shaw, author of a book critical of the upcoming Vancouver Olympics, was questioned by the Integrated Securities Unit (ISU).
For many of us, journalism was once the ultimate dream job. (And even in dire times, it still is for a lucky or plucky few.) Now the dream has turned to fantasizing — about alternative employment. Fantasies such as, writes the New York Times’s Judith Warner after surveying her colleagues, turning a Master’s of Journalism…
Walter Cronkite is dead at 92, reported the New York Times. As anchor of CBS Evening News for nearly 20 years, Cronkite was an icon in American television journalism who, said the Times, “figuratively held the hand of the American public during the civil rights movement, the space race, the Vietnam war, and the impeachment…
“The Media Standards Trust (MST) and Web Science Research Initiative (WSRI) event is in an ‘unconference’ style with multiple speakers contributing on a series of topics – all linked by the theme of innovation in news, whether that’s new tools, new business models or new practices.”
MediaShift offers some tips on adding to credibility and developing trust in the face on an onslaught of amateur reporters and crowdsourcing. “If you were a professional journalist and I asked you, “What does mainstream media provide that the crowd can’t?” I have some guesses about what I might hear in your answer: It’s more…
“CityBizList is a free email product sent to business people every morning in five metro areas—Baltimore, Atlanta , Philadelphia , Boston and Washington, D.C. Founded in 2005 by Edwin Warfield, CityBizList is aimed at the general business readers, but with an added emphasis on commercial real estate and the lawyers and bankers who serve that…
Here is an innovative approach to keep investigative journalism alive. “Twenty-five nonprofit news organizations recently came together to form the beginnings of an investigative news network to fill in the growing void left by newspapers.”
“The OECD is conducting a study on the Future of News to which this discussion session contributes. Independent journalism and newspapers play an indispensable role in informing citizens. Yet currently the newsgathering and distribution process is undergoing deep changes. In OECD countries both the number of physical newspaper titles, their circulation and newspaper readership are…
Bill Doskoch offers a snippet from BBC College of Journalism entitled The Future of Journalism: “The ability of audiences to pull together their preferred news is bringing the walls of the fortresses tumbling down.”