Archive
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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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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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

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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7 Jan

Wall Street Journal launches blogs, online commmunity

Editorial executives at the Wall Street Journal are now comfortable launching blogs on the paper’s website, reports journalist Mark Glaser on his PBS blog, MediaShift. Glaser interviews WSJ.com managing editor […]

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7 Jan

Casualties of Iraq war

The New York Times looks back at 2006 with an online package, “Casualties of War.” The three-part feature leads with a picture composite, “Faces of the Dead,” which consists of […]

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7 Jan

The art of science reporting

SciDev.net reporter Elmien Wolvaardt uncovers why overly simplistic science reporting is so pervasive, noting that the media narrowly focus on breakthroughs, which don’t tell the whole story of scientific steps […]

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