An Associated Press story takes a look at increased surveillance and censorship in China in the lead-up to the Communist Party Congress next week. “”For China’s 162 million web users, surfing the Internet can be like running an obstacle course with blocked websites, partial search results, and posts disappearing at every turn,” said the story…
American authorities have now detained Iraqi news photographer Bilal Hussein, who worked for the Associated Press and is a Pulitzer Prize winner, for 18 months. The AP’s web site today has a special feature on Hussein, which includes a long list of links with comprehensive information:The U.S. military in Iraq has imprisoned Associated Press photographer…
Reporters Without Borders and “Chinese Human Rights Defenders” says their new joint study “reveals how that country’s government censors the Internet and how the Internet Information Administrative Bureau controls the leading news websites.” Reporters Without Borders calls China the world’s biggest prison for journalists and cyber-dissident. Reporters Without Borders also has a petition, announced in 2001,…
Irving family companies control most of the media in New Brunswick. Now, they’re in court trying to stop an upstart from setting up a competing newspaper. CBC has a story about the case, and the Irving company’s complaint that a former publisher is using confidential information obtained while he worked for them to go into…
Today’s New York Times has a piece about how American broadcaster ABC is reshaping its news cast for the Internet. There are some differences, and some innovations. Excerpts:Executives at the broadcast networks know they have opportunities online that they do not have on television — namely, to take chances by testing new forms of news…
NewsThe Guardian newspaper calls it a “landmark” ruling in defence of investigative reporting. Britain’s court of appeal has used the defence of “responsible journalism” to dismiss a libel action against the publisher of a book about police corruption. The October 2007 ruling shields the media from libel actions “even if not every allegation can be proved,…
“The screams from newsrooms are those of panic,” Jim Lehrer, the well known American public television anchor, told a group of university students at Northwestern. Journalism is going through an “unpleasant” revolution, he said — but argued that the demise of mainstream media may be exaggerated. Lehrer is a guy usually worth listening to, imo.…
Michel Dumais, Blogue MédiaBiz Le journalisme visuel commence à faire son chemin dans la profession, que ce soit en France, chez Libération ou encore ici au Québec, au journal Les Affaires. Mais pour bien comprendre les rouages intimes d’univers aussi complexes que l’économie et du monde de la finance, n’y aurait-il pas lieu de proposer…
This reflection on publishing a web-based news service for communities in the Rocky Mountains covers a broad range of topics from blogging to citizen journalism.
Community Media Canada (CMC) is a great resource for locating the members of the Canadian community newspaper industry with over 850 newspapers. The publications represent every single province and territory, serving communities ranging from remote areas in the territories to downtown urban centres in Canada’s largest cities.