Archive
25 Mar

Dan Rather says journalism has “lost its guts”

Former CBS broadcaster Dan Rather proclaimed that journalism “in some ways lost its guts” at a recent keynote speech, reports Daniel Terdiman of CNET News.com. Rather, who stepped down from […]

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7 Mar

Good mag is great

Larry Dobrow heralds a relatively new arrival, Good, as “perhaps the best-thought-out magazine launch of the last half-decade,” on the Mediapost blog, “Magazine Rack.”

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7 Mar

Lies, memoirs, and publishing

Freelance journalist Danuta Kean writes about the latest memoir exposed as a fake on her blog. Kean says that the falsehoods in Forbidden Love, written by Norma Khouri, say more […]

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7 Mar

Is Wikipedia a legitimate source?

New York Times reporter Noam Cohen looks at the intense debate over the use of Wikipedia by American college students, as well as in journalism, law and academia in general.

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5 Mar

AP’s self-imposed Paris ban

On February 13, 2007, AP decided that it would not publish any news items about Paris Hilton for one week. CNN.com published AP’s recap of the ban, which was given […]

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27 Feb

Americans prefer “junk” to “nutritional” news stories

Canadian journalist and blogger Deborah Jones laments the short attention spans of media organizations and their readers. She says the American public would rather read “junk” about the demise of […]

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20 Feb

Spinning Apple

John Mather at RRJ.ca examines Apple’s ability to manipulate the press, using this year’s release of the iPhone as a prime example.

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19 Feb

Climate change skeptics silenced

Winnipeg Sun columnist, Tom Brodbeck, claims coverage of the recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was an example of an “illness known as pack journalism.” He claims journalists did not […]

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19 Feb

Is journalism ready for a black president?

Huffington Post blogger Tony Dokoupil questions whether journalism is ready for a black president. Now that Senator Barack Obama officially has declared himself a Democratic candidate for the American presidency, […]

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19 Feb

Supporting our journalists

John Nichols, blogger for The Nation, champions American reporter Sarah Olson, who has been subpoenaed by U.S. Armed Forces to confirm quotes she attributed to a former soldier and current […]

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