Le Devoir/AFP Paris — L’ensemble des syndicats de journalistes français souhaite qu’une loi garantisse l’indépendance juridique des rédactions, ont-ils indiqué hier lors d’une conférence de presse au cours de laquelle ils ont appelé la mobilisation. «Jamais la profession ne s’est aussi mal portée depuis 1946», a estimé David Larbre, représentant du Syndicat national des journalistes…
Louise Lemieux, Le Soleil Chaque semaine, Julie Lambert nous raconte ses aventures pendant le Rallye müvmedia Québec–France, sorte de course Destination monde nouveau genre. Notre Julie Lambert, reporter du Rallye müvmedia, a les pieds dans le sable, son téléphone cellulaire collé sur l’oreille. Devant elle, la Méditerranée. Elle est à six heures de bateau de…
Commentary Sheikh Khalid bin Mahfouz, one of the world’s richest men, has made an academic publisher withdraw a controversial book. But it is the UK libel system that allows the rich and powerful to stifle investigation, writes Padraig Reidy, news editor of Index on Censorship. (Sept. 7, 2007)
CommentaryThe principal legacy of disgraced media mogul Conrad Black, convicted in July of fraud and obstruction of justice, is “libel chill,” writes Toronto Star business columnist David Olive. For decades he used libel writs to neuter coverage of his activities. As a result, reporters and editors across the land engaged in the longest period of…
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 journalism. Excerpts: “Never has there been a greater need for independent, original, credible information about our complex society and the world at large.…
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 is forcing journalists to dig deep and produce better political stories. Sharda Vaidyanath reports in The Epoch Times.
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 journalistic activity, including freelancers and advertising-supported bloggers. The next step is a vote in the U.S. Senate. Read the Society of Professional Journalists…
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 is online. We are eventually — and I hate to tell this to the New York Times or the Washington Post — we…
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 School of Journalism. Jeff Jarvis says the money will help students develop new businesses and new careers for their future in the changing world…
“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 excerpts of Klein’s recent book and thus aided her success. Then, it ran those excerpts beside commentary trashing Klein (example: at worst, “her…