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19 Feb

Don’t e-mail Joel Stein

Los Angeles Times columnist Joel Stein cheekily speaks out against the popular practice of putting a columnist’s e-mail at the end of columns. Stein calls the practice “the pathetic, confused […]

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19 Feb

Journos covering Pickton trial seek to inform, not appal, public

In “Anatomy of a Murder Trial,” Guardian reporter Saptarshi Ray looks at how journalists cover the Robert Pickton trial currently underway in Vancouver. Ray speaks to Canadian journalists tasked with […]

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19 Feb

Washington journalism under fire

Washington Post columnist Dan Froomkin argues that “Washington journalism” is on trial alongside I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, Jr., who was indicted for allegedly leaking sensitive information about CIA employee Valerie […]

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16 Jan

Hussein photo outcry

Dan Leger, director of news content for The Chronicle Herald in Halifax, argues that the infamous photograph of Saddam Hussein, shot moments before his hanging, “had to be published.” Leger […]

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16 Jan

Freedom of the press being suppressed?

Peter Preston, on his Guardian blog, The Observer, denounces the death of 167 journalists in 2006. Preston argues that democracies are supposed to encourage “the free flow of ideas,” but […]

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7 Jan

The YouTube effect

In a recent Los Angeles Times column, Moises Naim says YouTube’s journalism could be a more powerful version of the CNN effect. Naim, editor-in-chief of Foreign Policy magazine, describes the […]

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7 Jan

Trump’s late December filler story

Before Rosie O’Donnell started mocking Donald Trump, Brian Montopoli posted about Trump’s late December filler story on his CBS News blog, Public Eye. Montopoli says, “[T]here are plenty of reasons […]

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7 Jan

The Judith Miller Distinguished Journalism Awards

Huffington Post blogger Joseph A. Palermo hands out the first Judith Miller Distinguished Journalism Awards to “The New York Times reporters who revealed themselves to be toadies of the Bush […]

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7 Jan

Year of the Muslim media

Charlie Beckett, on his Guardian blog Comment is Free . . . , discusses British media coverage of Muslims in 2006. Beckett writes the “year of the Muslim media began […]

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7 Jan

Media Mensch 2006

The New York Observer names former Los Angeles Times editor Dean Baquet its Media Mensch 2006 “for [r]efusing to [g]ut [n]ewsroom [p]roduct.” NYO says Baquet “spit into the eye of […]

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