Journalism

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Gross Failure of the Media

Cenk Uygur | Posted 11.20.2009 | Media

Read More: Conservative Media, Saddam Hussein, Acorn, Public Policy Polling, 9/11, Media, Iraq, Press, Journalism, Media News

How can over a quarter of the country believe something that is patently untrue, utterly ridiculous, and lacking even one iota of proof?

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The Obama-Effect in Journalism: Decentralized Editorial Power

Tanja Aitamurto | Posted 11.17.2009 | Media

Read More: Public Interest, Donations, Fundraising, Crowdfunding, Micropatronage, spot.us, Journalism, Liberal Society, Media News

Donors tend to feel empowered after the donation. Donating seems to create a sense of belonging to the community, and the donors also feel a sense of participation in the journalistic process.

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Shoestring Journalism

Lee Schneider | Posted 11.16.2009 | Media

Read More: Abc, Multimedia, Citizen Journalism, Mathilde Piard, Fox News, Nbc, Benjamin Drummond, Chris Tompkins, Journalism, Sara Joy Steele, Media News

When I was working at NBC and FOX News and ABC, we had helicopters, satellite uplinks, and video crews all over the world. Yet today, there are journalists doing much more with a whole lot less.

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Travels with Wells Tower, or Another Reason Why Magazines Should Hire More Fiction Writers

Joshuah Bearman | Posted 11.13.2009 | Media

Read More: Travel, Media, Wells Tower, Writing, Journalism, Outside Magazine, Media News

Travel writing is mostly bad. It's partly the fault of the form. Sometimes, quality sneaks in. And every so often the glossies still let Paul Theroux into the works so as to keep their bonafides burnished.

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Spencer Ackerman's Self-Correction: This Is How Stories Should Be Retracted

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.13.2009 | Media

Read More: Retraction, Spencer Ackerman, Media Critcism, The Washington Independent, Journalism, Corrections, Media News

Spencer Ackerman is a friend of mine and a reporter whose expertise and ecumenical fairness are resources I've come to trust. He's also demonstrated ...

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"15 Minutes" vs. 90 Years: How the Algonquin Round-Table Went Viral Before the Internet

Nat Benchley | Posted 11.13.2009 | New York

Read More: Twitter, Algonquin Round Table, World War I, Writing, Criticism, Speeches, New York City, New York Events, Algonquin-Hotel, Journalism, New York News

Anywhere there is printing these days (ink or pixels), you will find references to the Algonquin Round Table. So, what is it with the adulation of a bunch of "tipsy quipsters"?

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Cook County Prosecutor Continues to Investigate Students for Trying to Free an Innocent Man

Judge H. Lee Sarokin | Posted 11.12.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Anthony McKinney, Medill Innocence Project, Cook County Prosecutor, Criminal Justice, Death Penalty, Death Penalty Moratorium, Journalism, Chicago News

Cook County prosecutors continue their relentless attempt to discredit the work of the students of the Medill Innocence Project in their efforts to exonerate Anthony McKinney.

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Making Sense of the Hyperlocal Landscape

Rachel Sterne | Posted 11.12.2009 | Media

Read More: Rachel Sterne, Jeff Jarvis, Community, Media News, Media, Citizen Journalism, Journalism, Groundreport, Hyperlocal News, Media News

New media guru Jeff Jarvis calls it the 'Holy Grail.' Michael Gluckstadt's Fast Company feature questioned its '$100 Billion Potential.' So what does ...

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Why Two White Kids Are a Senseless Tragedy but an Arab American Is Terrorism

Brian Ross | Posted 11.11.2009 | Media

Read More: Shootings, Army Shooting, Eric Harris, Politics News, Terrorism, Dylan Klebold, Media, Journalism, Major Nidal Hasan, Reporting, Harris, Politics, Cnn, Army, Virginia Tech Shooting, Cho Seung-Hui, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, New York Times, Fox News, Racism, Racism in Media, Colombine Shootings, US Army, Virginia Tech Massacre, Wolf Blitzer, Fort Hood Shootings, Klebold, Colombine, Media News

When a couple of white kids shoot up a school, it is a tragedy. Bring on a shooting at a military base that involves an Arab-American though, and the media does everything it can to shout "terrorism."

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Purity, Integrity, Inspiration: Possible in 2009 News Online?

Sheila Shayon | Posted 11.02.2009 | Media

Read More: Religion, Newspapers, Media, Online Media, News, Yellow Journalism, Journalism, Pulitzer Prize, Craig Newmark, Joseph Pulitzer, New York World, Mary Baker Eddy, Christian Science Monitor, Media News

In 2009, the Christian Science Monitor, a 100 year-old news organization, became the first nationally circulated newspaper to replace its daily print edition with its website.

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Needed: Social Investment in An Informed Society

Peter M. Shane | Posted 11.04.2009 | Media

Read More: Education, Newspapers, Libraries, Public Universities, New Models, Downie, Business Models, Schudson, Information Needs, Journalism, Knight Commission, Media News

The current moment of journalistic ferment is actually part of a larger and more alarming story. The United States is dramatically under-investing in the production and circulation of knowledge.

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Lebanese News Station's Cowardice in Sex Braggart Scandal Makes Saudi Female Journalist the Scapegoat

Sabria Jawhar | Posted 10.28.2009 | World

Read More: Female Journalists, Sex Braggart, Saudi Arabia, Tablolid Journalism, Journalism, Lebanese Broadcasting Corp, World News

Something got lost in all the outrage last week over the conviction and lashing sentence of the 22-year-old Saudi woman journalist who worked for the Lebanese Broadcasting Corp. What is the LBC doing to support their journalist?

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Targeted, Hyper-Personalized, Real-Time Ads - Please Come to Me!

Tanja Aitamurto | Posted 10.28.2009 | Business

Read More: Future of Journalism, Foursquare, Hyperpersonalized Advertising, Contextual Advertising, Online Advertising, Advertising, Journalism, Twitter, Facebook, Business News

Are clicks the right way to measure the efficiency of online advertising? And, is online advertising efficient at all? In my case, it doesn't seem to be.

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Chi-Town Daily News Founder Launches Chicago Current

Chicago Public Radio | Posted 10.27.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Chicago Current, Chitown Daily News, Chicago Journalism, Journalism, Dougherty Chicago Current, Geoff-Dougherty, Chicago Tribune, Web, New Media, Online News, Chicago News

Next month, the former Chicago Tribune reporter will start another journalistic endeavor, Chicago Current. ...

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Iranian Women's Voices

Mahnaz Afkhami | Posted 10.26.2009 | Books

Read More: Women's Rights, Censorship, Islam, Iran, Journalism, Gender Discrimination, One Million Signatures Campaign, Iranian Women, Grassroots, Oppressive Government, Books, Books News

In the flood of news and information that surrounds us every day, we may take for granted the constant ripple of voices around the globe whose struggle to be heard often ends in violence, imprisonment or death.

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Female Journalist Sentenced To 60 Lashes For Sex Show On Saudi Arabia TV

AP | DONNA ABU-NASR | Posted 10.24.2009 | World

Read More: Women's Rights, Islam, Lashes, Punishment, Journalist, Bold Red Line, Journalism, Religion, Lash, Mazen Abdul Jawad, Womens Rights, Taboo, Lbc, Abdul Jawad, Prison, Saudi Arabia, Sex, Lashing, Tv, Sex Toys, Jiddah, World News

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — A Saudi court on Saturday sentenced a female journalist to 60 lashes after she had been charged with involvement in a TV ...

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Left, Right & Center: CEO Pay, Public Option, Obama vs. Fox, Saving Journalism

Huff Radio | Posted 10.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Fox News, Executive Pay, Public Option, Journalism, Barack Obama, Politics News

The public option is sneaking its way back onto the table; the administration takes a hardcore stance regarding Fox News; and Len Downie of the Washington Post proposes public funding for journalism.

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Found On Twitter: Fake AP Stylebook

Twitter | Posted 10.23.2009 | Books

Read More: AP Stylebook, Tweeting, Ap, Journalism, Internet, Writing, Twitter, Grammar, Books, Online Writing, Fake Stylebook, Books News

We know this isn't exactly a piece about books, but it is about writing, and we thought it was funny -- for all the journalists and grammar geeks out ...

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Old Enough to Know Better, Young Enough to Pretend: Can the Chicago News Cooperative Succeed?

Daniel Sinker | Posted 10.23.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Media, Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago Tribune, Journalism, Chicago Reader, Old Media vs. New Media, Creative Commons, Chicago Politics, Chicago Olympics, Death of Newspapers, Wbez, 2016 Olympics, Chicago Budget, Mayor Daley, New York Times, Cnc, Chicago News Cooperative, Chicago News

If there was a better day to announce the News Cooperative, I can't think of it. After Mayor Daley's budget address, the two major papers ran the same cover: a 24-year-old kidnapping.

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Democrats Should Stay Off Fox Until It Confesses

Cenk Uygur | Posted 10.23.2009 | Media

Read More: Mainstream Media, Partisan Press, White House, Conservative Propaganda, Republican, Conservative, Media, Press, Fox News Channel, Barack Obama, Journalism, Media News

Does anyone really believe that ACORN is the top story? Every day? Or is it possible that is Fox's obvious, ham-handed way of attacking the president daily? I can't believe we're having this argument.

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News

Norman Horowitz | Posted 10.22.2009 | Media

Read More: Abc, Msnbc, Nbc, Fox News, Glenn Beck, Keith Olbermann, Cbs, Cable News, Wolf Blitzer, Journalism, Media News

News as defined by dictionary.com is the presentation of a report on recent or new events [intelligence; information] in a newspaper or other periodi...

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With News Jobs Vanishing, Why Are Journalism Schools Still Enrolling Students?

Peter Scheer | Posted 10.22.2009 | Media

Read More: New York Times, Death of Newspapers, Online Newspapers, Journalism, Newspaper Industry, Media News

Traditional news media will continue to shed jobs, even in a general recovery, faster than digitally-based replacements for those businesses can be invented and built.

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Columbia Axes Environmental Journalism, and Malcolm Gladwell Is Okay With That

Alex Pasternack | Posted 10.21.2009 | Media

Read More: Environment, Malcolm Gladwell, Journalism, Green News, Journalism School, Columbia University, Columbia Journalism School, Media News

The media needs to get over the superficial, celebrity-soaked fad approach to environmental journalism and deliver something that people want: more and better in-depth environmental news.

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How Sex Could Save Newspapers

Cory Silverberg | Posted 10.20.2009 | Media

Read More: Death of Newspapers, Media, Sexuality, Print Media, Newspaper Decline, Journalism, Sex, Media News

Nowhere is the disconnect between mainstream news production and the lives and experiences of those of us who consume it more apparent than in content about sexuality.

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Prosecutor Defends Going After Northwestern Students' Notes, Class Material

Chicago Tribune | Daarel Burnette II | Posted 10.20.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Wrongful Conviction, Anthony McKinney, Dan Kirk, Journalism, David Protess, Medill Cook County Subpoenas, Press Freedom, Northwestern University, Medill Innocence Project, Anita Alvarez, Chicago News

Cook County State's Attorney Anita Alvarez defended subpoenaing Northwestern University journalism students' notes and recordings of witness interview...

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