• Illustration of Julian Assange with fountain pen overhead over black background

    Journalism’s Assange problem

    By Kathy Kiely, University of Missouri-Columbia and Laurel Leff, Northeastern University These days, anybody with an internet connection can be a publisher. That doesn’t make everybody a journalist. This distinction has become more important than ever in light of two recent events. One was the arrest of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. The other was a…

  • ‘Dark day’ for Canadian journalism industry after Vice ruling

    Press freedom organizations are expressing disappointment after the Supreme Court of Canada upheld a lower-court ruling requiring Vice Media Canada to hand over all records of its communications with Farah Shirdon, a Canadian citizen who left Calgary to fight with the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. Vice reporter Ben Makuch made contact with Shirdon…