“For a generation, journalists have been steeped in a culture of failure. Even during boom years, newspapers laid off employees, offered buy-outs, froze the hiring off new employees and cut the pay of the ones they kept. When the Internet brought unprecedented competition into the news business, and Chicken Little’s sky really did fall, the…
This is a pretty reliable resource to tracking down journalists using Twitter. MediaOnTwitter was one of the first websites to offer a comprehensive servivce.
“I argued then — and I still believe now — that if we can better exploit and market the deep, full-bodied understanding that beat reporters have of their areas of expertise, we hugely increase our value proposition to our readers. So we should celebrate our beat reporters, and take advantage of online opportunities to demonstrate…
“Last week I was a panelist at a Gulf online writers and journalism workshop in Dubai that brought together the leading GCC online journalists to discuss whether bloggers and mainstream media can co-exist. In other words, can we all just get along.”
“As fewer and fewer newspapers commit enough resources, time and manpower to produce in-depth investigative reports, many citizen media enthusiasts seem to suggest that citizen journalists can step in to fill the gap. Do citizen journalists hold the key to the future of in-depth investigative journalism? Perhaps.”
“In an interview with the Telegraph, Tina Brown expresses her views on the future of newspapers and the professional journalist. The once queen bee of the high-end glossy magazine industry has now completely embraced the digital medium as editor in chief of The Daily Beast, a New York-based online news site. Brown is now advising…
Selected articles from the June 2009 issue of Journalism Studies that may be of interest to the journalism community:Claiming Journalistic Truth, by Burton St. John Is More Always Better?, by Lee Becker, Ann C. Hollifield, Adam Jacobsson, Eva-Maria Jacobsson and Tudor Vlad Changing and Staying the Same: Communication in Campaign 2008, by Lynda Lee Kaid…
Colette Brin, ProjetJ – 30 mai 2009 | Alors que la pratique du journalisme vit des moments difficiles, la recherche et l’enseignement universitaire dans ce domaine professionnel semblent plus dynamique que jamais. À l’issue d’un premier symposium pancanadien sur le journalisme, une quarantaine d’enseignants et de chercheurs ont décidé de s’associer pour promouvoir les échanges…
“Following last week’s significant editorial shift, the Globe and Mail with new editor-in-cheif John Stackhouse at the helm is delivering on the promise to “expand the newspaper’s digital strategy.” The first community to benefit will be the Greater Toronto Area. Toronto city editor Kelly Grant announced the launch of a new web property — globeandmail.com/toronto …
The media should tone down coverage that pressures police to solve crimes and devote more effort to reporting on trials and investigating cases that result in wrongful convictions, says lawyer-crusdader James Lockyer. Melissa Wilson reports.