Journalism

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The Wrong Story on Karadzic

James S. Gordon | Posted 09.10.2009 | World

Read More: New York Times Magazine, Human Rights, Kosovo, Bosnia, Serbia, Karadzic, Serbs, Journalism, Genocide, World News

I found the Times' piece on Radovan Karadzic very disturbing -- not because it addressed his crimes, but because it chose to focus on an identity he assumed while he was living underground in Belgrade.

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Bill O'Reilly-Keith Olbermann Feud Ends with a Corporate Handshake?

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 09.10.2009 | Media

Read More: Countdown, General Electric, Ge, Ronald Reagan, Phil Donahue, Countdown With Keith Olbermann, Hudson River, Pcbs, Keith Olbermann, Roger Ailes, Propaganda, Jeffrey Immelt, Willie Horton, Msnbc, Fox News, O'Reilly-Olbermann Rivalry, O'Reilly-Olbermann Feud, Journalism, George H.W. Bush, Rupert Murdoch, Republican Talking Points, News Corporation, Republican Party, Republican Strategist Ailes, Bill O'Reilly, Fox, GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt, Media News

Corporate honchos at GE and News Corp making back-room editorial decisions for the "news" subsidiaries they control? I can't help but think it might not be the best thing for the integrity of journalism.

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Raise Your Hand if You Think Media People Have a Future

Michael Wolff | Posted 09.07.2009 | Media

Read More: Michael Wolff, Tina Brown, Rupert Murdoch, Media, The Daily Beast, Tina Brown the Daily Beast, Talk Magazine, David Carr, Journalism, Media News

Media people are deeply nostalgic for the media -- for when it paid big money and was an exclusive sort of place.

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This Is Rupert's Last Stand: Making You Pay

Michael Wolff | Posted 09.06.2009 | Media

Read More: Rupert Murdoch, Michael Wolff, Media, Wall Street Journal, Online Journalism, Journalism, Media News

Technology, at News Corp., has always been regarded as one of those things, like fancy hotels, or long-form writing, that are not part of the company culture.

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Media Literacy 101: Tom Stoppard and Laura, Euna and Atwar

Susan Moeller | Posted 09.04.2009 | Media

Read More: Salzburg Global Seminar, Journalism, Al Arabiya, Euna Lee, Laura Ling, Atwar Bahjat, Roxana Saberi, Tom Stoppard, Media, Salzburg Academy, North Korea, Cpj, Academy Awards, Tony Awards, Media News

This year already, 19 individuals have been killed around the world because of their work as journalists. We need to recognize the essential role journalists play in keeping us informed and in protecting our freedoms.

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Tweet Release: Timeline of @LiberateLaura

Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 09.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bill Clinton, Journalism, Journalists, Euna Lee, Laura Ling, Biz Stone, Twitter, New York Times, Current TV, Evan Williams, Richard Horgan, North Korea, Liberatelaura, North Korea Bill Clinton, Politics News

As exuberance following the release of Laura Ling and Euna Lee from North Korea rules the trending topics on Twitter, I asked Richard Horgan for a statement on his e-activism through @LiberateLaura.

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How Bing and Twitter Can Save Journalism

Maegan Carberry | Posted 09.03.2009 | Media

Read More: Google, Twitter, Search Engines, Bing, Online Media, New Media, Search Engine Optimization, Journalism, Yahoo, Media News

The emergence of Bing and Twitter mark the first formidable competitors to Google, which until now has monopolized the market on search, and thus the diversity of thought in journalism's Internet era.

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My Own Private Recession

Josh Rosenblatt | Posted 09.03.2009 | Living

Read More: Recession, Poverty, Writing, Economy, Freelance, Print Journalism, Subprime Mortgages, Economic Recession, Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Board of Directors, Journalism, US Recession, Living News

To Our Stockholders: 2009 has proven to be a harder year than we, the Board of Directors of Josh Rosenblatt Enterprises, anticipated. The financial m...

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Free Lou Dobbs

Ron Galloway | Posted 09.03.2009 | Media

Read More: Lou Dobbs, Walmart, Birthers, Cnn, The Lou Dobbs Show, Ethics in Journalism, Lou Dobbs Immigration, Lou Dobbs Birthers, Journalism, CNN Ratings, Media News

Lou Dobbs went way out of his way to make sure that he presented both sides of the story. He didn't have to (or want to), but his professional code insisted he should.

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Jeff Jarvis is a-Twitter

Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 09.03.2009 | Media

Read More: Jeff Jarvis, Twitter, Journalism, Public Relations, Journalism School, Media News

It's my experience that journalists who routinely call PR people flacks are themselves hacks.

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Economist: U.S. More Permissive Of Torture Than China

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.31.2009 | Politics

Read More: Polls, Polling, Media Criticism, Journalism, Torture, Politics News

Yesterday, The Economist posted poll numbers on global attitudes towards torture, pulled from 2008 research conducted by World Public Opinion. The Ec...

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Unfair to the Unbalanced: When Fair and Balanced is Not Required

John Milewski | Posted 08.30.2009 | Media

Read More: Birthers, Journalistic Bias, Obama Birth Certificate, Birther-Movement, Conservatives, Liberals, Fair and Balanced, Lou Dobbs, Journalism, Barack Obama, Partisan Politics, Media News

Do we really need to be respectful of the views of the scarily unhinged, tragically misinformed, or strategically dishonest?

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Crowley vs. Gates: The Heart of Prejudice

Ruth Bettelheim | Posted 08.29.2009 | Media

Read More: Racial Politics, Racial Prejudice, Media, Walter Cronkite, James Crowley, Henry Louis Gates, Prejudice, Racial Profiling, Journalism, Media News

"Us v. them" arguments do not engage our rational reflective capacities, but instead inflame us with an exhortation to battle.

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Beyond Towering Babble: Good Schools, Real News

Mort Rosenblum | Posted 08.29.2009 | Media

Read More: Newspapers, Education, Journalism, War, Foreign Policy, Media, Journalism School, News, Newspaper Industry, Media News

The operative part of newspaper is news. If changing tastes prefer something different, why not? But online-only options are not ready, and TV hardly takes up the slack.

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Newsweek's Misleading Account of Latest Marriage Study

Bella DePaulo | Posted 08.28.2009 | Living

Read More: Mark Sanford, Depression, Singled Out, Divorce, Marriage, Jon and Kate, Marriage Movement, Widow, Media, Policy, Myths, Age of Marriage, Journalism, Singlism, Methodological Problems, Health, Single, Chronic Illness, Remarriage, Newsweek, Living News

A new day has dawned, and with it another study of marriage misrepresented in the media: as always, implying that getting married results in better outcomes than it actually does.

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Jargon for Jobless Journalists

Lysandra Ohrstrom | Posted 08.28.2009 | Media

Read More: Jobs, Unemployment, Freelancing, Columbia Journalism School, Journalism, Journalism Job Losses, Death of Newspapers, Newspaper Job Losses, Newspaper Industry, Media News

Searching for a steady reporting job or freelance work is a lot like dating. We all know the euphemisms for getting dumped, but rejection in the job market is less obvious.

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Honored Today With The Cabot Journalism Prize, I Will Use It To Grow The Cuban Blogosphere

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 08.27.2009 | Living

Read More: Cuban Blogosphere, Columbia University, Maria Moors Cabot Journalism Prize, Cabot Prize, US-Cuba Relations, Blog Comments, Blogging, Journalism, Cuba, Generation Y, Living News

As I don't plan to wait to be allowed to open school of digital journalism in order to realize this project, I will begin it with bureaucratic and legal formality.

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The Ten Best Movies About Journalism by Farr

John Farr | Posted 08.27.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Dustin Hoffman, Robert Mitchum, Pbs, Journalists, Kirk Douglas, Al Pacino, Russell Crowe, Jane Fonda, Billy Wilder, American Masters, Best Movies by Farr, Journalism, Sigourney Weaver, Alfred Hitchcock, Bob Woodward, Tom Brokaw, Jack-Lemmon, Peter Jennings, Reel 13, 60 Minutes, Mel Gibson, Warren Beatty, Carl Bernstein, Walter Cronkite, Sam Waterston, Dan Rather, Peter Saarsgard, PBS Documentaries, Jason Robards, Robert Redford, Michael Douglas, Entertainment News

In the wake of the revered Walter Cronkite's passing, I've attempted to isolate the ten best movies about journalism.

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Revolting Revelation: Michael Jackson Still Not Allowed Burial

Francesca Biller-Safran | Posted 08.25.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Fallen King of Pop, Michael Jackson, Precription Drugs, Neverland Ranch, Closure, Wacko Jacko, Burial, Barry Gordy, Black Entertainment Awards, Papparazzi, News Media, Smoky Robinson, Motown Records, Child Molestation, Jermaine Jackson, TV Ratings, Guiness Book of World Records, Journalism, Joe Jackson, Walter Cronkite, Sensationalism, Peter Pan, The King of Pop, Los Angeles Coroner, Toxicoloy Reports, Entertainment News

It's been more than a month since Michael Jackson's demise and still no burial, cremation, resting place, or any manifestation of "closure" for this fallen King of Pop.

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No News Isn't Good News

Craig and Marc Kielburger | Posted 08.24.2009 | Media

Read More: Darfur, Marc Kielburger, Nicholas Kristof, Media, International News, Craig Kielburger, Journalism, Media News

Foreign bureaus are easy targets as newspapers make cuts to satisfy their budgets. Maintaining bureaus is incredibly expensive. But losing the coverage is beneficial to no one.

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NYT Wins Journalism Prize For Digital Innovations

Editor & Publisher | Posted 08.24.2009 | Media

Read More: Knight-Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism, New York Times, Journalism, Newspapers, Media News

NEW YORK Six digital innovations from The New York Times have earned it the $10,000 grand prize at the Knight-Batten Awards for Innovations in Journal...

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Please, Dear Novelists - Get Real

Johann Hari | Posted 08.24.2009 | Media

Read More: Fiction, Novels, Tom Wolfe, Dave Eggers, Aravind Adiga, Slumdog Millionaire, Journalism, New Journalism, Between the Assassinations, Booker Prize, Media News

The Slumdog Kill-ionaire is back, and he is reminding us how exhilarating fiction can be when novelists finally leave their seminar rooms and dive into the real world.

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That Cronkite School of Journalism -- An ASU Alum Looks Back

Greg Archer | Posted 08.23.2009 | Media

Read More: CBS News, Arizona State University, Walter Cronkite, Most-Trusted-Man-in-America, Walter Cronkite Dead, Journalism, Death-of-Journalism, CBS Evening News, Media News

I can't help but wonder what that solid, creative titan of a man would have thought of 21st century broadcast media (and some print media) before he passed on.

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The Art of Listening: In Memory of Walter Cronkite

Stephen Wilkes | Posted 08.23.2009 | Media

Read More: Walter Cronkite, Stephen Wilkes, Good Listener, The Art of Listening, Interview Skills, Interview, Journalism, Media News

It was on this day, the 20th of March in the spring of 1974, that the legendary Walter Cronkite granted us our first interview and a life changing experience.

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Journalists Killed Around The World At All Time High

News24 | Posted 08.23.2009 | World

Read More: Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, Journalism, Journalists, Journalists Killed in Iraq, Journalists Killed, Russia Journalists Killed, Journalists Killed in Russia, World News

Geneva - Fifty-nine journalists have been killed around the world so far this year, in an alarming rise from 2008 that has become a "bloodbath" of the...

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