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Journalism’s other road

Buried in the despair of a U.S. media-industry roundup — to which it devotes an extraordinarily long and justifiably depressing introduction — the Columbia Journalism Review presents some interesting ideas about non-profit…
The upside of Harper’s press restrictions

NewsOttawa (July 30, 2007) — One year after relations between the Parliamentary Press Gallery and the Harper government hit rock bottom, some observers see signs that restrictions on media access to politicians…
Proposed U.S. shield law moves forward

NewsAug. 1, 2007 – The U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee has voted in favor of an amended federal shield law that would protect newsgatherers who derive “financial gain or livelihood” from…
Online, all the time

American journalist Seymour Hersh has much to say In a Q&A interview about the Internet’s impact on journalism: “There is an enormous change taking place in this country in journalism. And it…
Students challenged to be journalistic innovators and entreprenuers

An American journalism professor has just received a huge grant to provide seed funding to news start-ups developed by students in his entrepreneurial journalism class at City Univeristy of New York’s Graduate…
Klein and the National Post

“Paying an Author and Putting Her Down” is a report in the New York Times about Naomi Klein’s odd appearance in the National Post. The Post paid for the rights to run…
Armstrong and the rabble-rousing journalist

His editor figured him for a “rabble-rouser and liberal,” but Larry Lubenow knew a good story when he heard one. And so he quoted Louis Armstrong when the jazz legend finally spoke…
FOI audit shows gov’t still keeping secrets

By Fred Vallance-JonesWhen I sat down to crunch the raw data from the third annual CNA FOI audit, I hoped against hope that I’d discover a marked improvement in performance by Canada’s…
Sarkozy et les médias : l’information neutralisée par la communication politique

Politique.net Hyperprésidence, omniprésence médiatique, tels sont les qualificatifs qui reviennent le plus souvent à propos des premiers mois de Nicolas Sarkozy à l’Elysée. Le chef de l’Etat est partout, il s’occupe de…
Les supercheries d’un journaliste et expert sur le terrorisme

Alexis Debat, 35 ans, vient d’être démasqué. Le Français avait fabriqué de toute pièce des entrevues avec des personnalités comme Bill Clinton, Barack Obama et Bill Gates, parues dans la revue française…