Reporting

New Association Gives Religion Journalism a Boost

Ruth Eglash | Posted 04.12.2012

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Ruth Eglash

Boosting the importance of religion reporting and advocating support for those prevented or persecuted for writing about it was a point that almost all those present agreed to be an essential element of the International Association of Religion Journalists' mission.

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LiePad: Why Nonfiction Writers Must Never Change the Facts

Brandt Goldstein | Posted 05.21.2012

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Brandt Goldstein

Can a writer working in the realm of nonfiction ever change the facts because he's Making Art or Delivering an Important Message? The view of basically every respected journalist is Hell No. But a new book takes the opposite view.

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When Rumors Turn Into Facts In The Mainstream Media

Moe Ali Nayel | Posted 04.14.2012

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Moe Ali Nayel

News that is obviously fabricated, or written from behind desks in the U.S, Europe, and east Beirut, angers me because I value the integrity of investigative journalism. I hate seeing how the Syrian peoples' uprising has been manipulated to serve as a tool for some political agendas.

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Anchors and Reporters: Stop Going Down With the Ship

Leslie Griffith | Posted 03.28.2012

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Leslie Griffith

When NBC is a network and Comcast and GE own NBC -- I suppose it was just naïve to believe stock holders wouldn't push these anchors to be celebrities. But, it brings us all back to asking "Who will ever help this nation find its balance again?"

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They Can't All Be Idiots!

Peter D. Rosenstein | Posted 11.19.2011

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Peter D. Rosenstein

What has been lost in public discourse is the use of hard facts to make the point we want to get across. Reporting is too often simply the restating of what someone else says without checking the facts.

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WATCH: Colbert Mocks 'New York Times,' Print Journalism

Posted 11.13.2011

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In a sarcastic report on old-fashioned journalism, Stephen Colbert made an un-telegraphed joke at the expense of "The New York Times." What seemed lik...

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Should Journalists Get Out of the News?

Phil Bronstein | Posted 10.31.2011

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Phil Bronstein

The reporter isn't and should almost never be the story. Or try hard not to be, no matter how much "personal brand" work our social media experts tell us is essential to survive the tornado of change that's tearing up our old ideas.

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Alex Crawford: Making History in Libya

John Mair | Posted 10.30.2011

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John Mair

She trended worldwide on Twitter on Sunday August 21st. Alex Crawford of Sky News was one of the first three journalists -- all women -- entering Green Square Tripoli with the Libyan rebels.

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What Are Journalists Missing in Libya?

Foreign Policy | Keith B. Richburg | Posted 10.26.2011

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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia--Watching from afar the televised scenes of the rebel takeover of Tripoli and the collapse of the Qaddafi regime, I found somethi...

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Breaking: Guatemalan Court Revokes Passport, Asks for Return of Adopted Child "Karen Abigail"

Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism | Posted 10.05.2011

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Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism

A Guatemalan court has ordered La Procuraduría General de la Nación and the Ministry of External Relations to work with the U.S. Embassy to "locate and retrieve" a child adopted to Timothy and Jennifer Monahan of Missouri in 2007.

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Media Salad: Tossed Into Business

Robert Schwab | Posted 09.12.2011

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Robert Schwab

Christine Tatum, like many reporters who have fallen out of the news business, has created a new model for journalism based on the skills she learned as a reporter, which she is now taking to market as a business owner.

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How I "Made My Bones"

Charlie Carillo | Posted 06.06.2011

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Charlie Carillo

Tragedies happen, and the general population recoils from them. Newspapermen betray that natural instinct and dive right into other people's sorrows to get the story.

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Education Reporting Is In Crisis

Jeanne Allen | Posted 06.02.2011

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Jeanne Allen

The Bullpen, the first-of-its-kind virtual newsroom, is designed to respond, react and critique the media in real time, providing not just a service to reporters but also as a service to the public.

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Chris Hedges, Huffington, and the Taste of Truth

Alison Rose Levy | Posted 05.25.2011

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Alison Rose Levy

In his current blog in TruthDig, Chris Hedges comments on the Huffington Post's recent purchase by AOL, critiquing Huffington for pioneering the new i...

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Out With the Old -- Thoughts on the Departure of Robert Gibbs

Connie Lawn | Posted 05.25.2011

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Connie Lawn

An excellent press secretary is democratic to all. The best press secretaries also explain and flesh out policies with passion; they do not endlessly repeat prepared position papers.

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Red Lenses on a Rainbow of Revolutions

Cynthia Boaz | Posted 05.25.2011

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Cynthia Boaz

Reposted from OpenDemocracy.net, series on Civil Resistance and the New Global Ferment Given continued strikes in Iran and the freeing of Aung San S...

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A Love Letter to Print

Michael Mattis | Posted 05.25.2011

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Michael Mattis

Even though I'm an online guy, newspapers have always held a fascination for me. Even with shorter news cycles and their lack of clickable links, newspapers have some advantages that the digital space sometimes lacks.

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What I Learned Covering Hurricane Katrina -- The Month Before It Hit

Adam Yamaguchi | Posted 05.25.2011

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Adam Yamaguchi

Just before Hurricane Katrina hit, I went to Louisiana for Current TV. A fisherman I interviewed named Tom told me the levees were vulnerable, but the real danger was that a Category 5 hurricane could wipe everything out.

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The Problem With Financial Journalism

David Serchuk | Posted 05.25.2011

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David Serchuk

The peculiar sport of fox hunting was described by Oscar Wilde as "the unspeakable in pursuit of the uneatable." I feel a similar aphorism can be applied to most financial journalism: "The unspeakable perusing the unreadable."

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Gossip and The New York Times

Peter A. Ubel | Posted 05.25.2011

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Peter A. Ubel

Is it too much to hope that the world's best reporters will stay focused on the big picture, without being distracted by the daily undulations of minor gossip?

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Turns Out, Everyone's a Source!

Peter Shankman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Peter Shankman

Like most things in the Internet age in which we live, one thing led to another, and I now run the largest source repository in the world, called "Help A Reporter Out."

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Reporters and Sycophants

Len Levitt | Posted 05.25.2011

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Len Levitt

The Post's Murray Weiss, the city's pre-eminent police reporter, is packing it in. Weiss spent 24 years at the Post and the previous 12 years at the News -- virtually all of them covering the NYPD.

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Bless the Children and the Reporting that Brought Light to a Scandal

Paula Gordon | Posted 05.25.2011

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Paula Gordon

The cruel reality of priests violating children, and a concerted conspiracy to cover up this evil, have long been public information.

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Rewarding the Journalism That Matters

The New York Public Library | Posted 05.25.2011

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The New York Public Library

At a time when quality foreign reporting is becoming a foreign concept, journalist David Finkel spent eight months of his life in a perilous section of Baghdad, traveling with a battalion of infantry.

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The F Word: The Times' Bias Killed ACORN

Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011

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Laura Flanders

The contemplation-of-a-correction story is less about bad reporting than bias. The Times seems to have considered ACORN guilty from the start.

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