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…
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 out on race relations — and helped change the course of U.S. race politics. David Margolick tells the tale in the New York…
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 federal, provincial and municipal governments. Alas, I was to be disappointed. The final numbers actually got worse. There’s a chill wind blowing over the public’s…
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 tout. Et la presse en redemande comme en témoignent les Unes des hebdomadaires (Le Point, L’Express, le Nouvel Observateur) : Nicolas Sarkozy et…
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 Politique Internationale. Il avait également réussi à se faire passer pour un expert sur les questions de terrorisme et de la politique étrangère…