Journalists

O'Reilly Tops List Of "Least Favorite" Campaign Journalist

TV Newser | Posted 12.13.2008 | Media


The Pew Research Center has put out their post-election report, and Bill O'Reilly was found to lead both the "favorite campaign journalist" and "least...

Creating The IFC Media Project

Meghan O'Hara | Posted 12.13.2008 | Media


Meghan O'Hara

Once in a while an opportunity comes along when you are actually in a place to appreciate it. I was recently asked to create a show that would reveal the true influences on news in this country.

Canadian Journalist Set Free By Afghan Abductors After 4 Weeks

Washington Post | Candace Rondeaux | Posted 12.10.2008 | Media


A Canadian journalist kidnapped in Afghanistan was released Saturday after four weeks in captivity, according to Afghan and Canadian officials. Melli...

Number Of Foreign Journalists In Iraq Declining Sharply

Washington Post | Ernesto LondoƱo and Amit R. Paley | Posted 11.11.2008 | Media


The number of foreign journalists in Baghdad is declining sharply, a media withdrawal that reflects Iraq's growing stability and the financial strains...

We are like a city on a hill

Logan Nakyanzi Pollard | Posted 11.08.2008 | Politics


Logan Nakyanzi Pollard

This election will show the public's choice, its mandate for the type of leader it wants to deal with complex issues, like why people use terrorism as a tactic to dialogue with those in power.

Ibrahim Eissa, Egyptian Journalist, Gets Jail Time For Reports On Mubarak

AP | SARAH EL DEEB | Posted 10.29.2008 | Media


CAIRO, Egypt — An Egyptian appeals court on Sunday upheld a guilty verdict against a newspaper editor who wrote stories questioning the presiden...

Foreign Media Use Professional Journos To Blog

Jillian York | Posted 10.17.2008 | Home


Jillian York

Blogging projects created by established publications that use trained foreign journalists lend a certain credibility to blogging the elections.

South African Wildfire: An Allegory for Journalists

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 10.09.2008 | Home


Georgianne Nienaber

Journalists have an important moral responsibility to find the path of integrity through moral minefields that have opened old political wounds and ignited a firestorm of misunderstanding about small town America.

Journalists Kidnapped In Somalia

CNN | Posted 09.24.2008 | Media


Two international journalists, along with their Somali colleague and a driver, were kidnapped Saturday, a journalists' organization in Somalia said. A...

Journalists Lash Out At Chinese Officials In Beijing

Wall Street Journal | JASON DEAN and SHAI OSTER | Posted 09.14.2008 | Media


Frustrations are escalating between the Western media and Chinese officials over the government's handling of the Olympic Games, reflecting deeper di...

General Potemkin's Olympic Village

Leslie Harris | Posted 08.08.2008 | Media


Leslie Harris

Any casual China watcher understands that media control stands at the heart of the governments' grip on power. The real surprise is that anyone believed that China would honor this commitment at the end of the day.

How Should Journalists Cover a Charismatic Candidate? When the Subjective is Objective

Drew Westen | Posted 08.04.2008 | Media


Drew Westen

Charges of bias, particularly toward a charismatic candidate like Obama, create confusion among journalists -- as a result, they often overshoot.

Chinese Reporters Shot At Anti-Gun Press Conference

BBC | Posted 07.26.2008 | Home


Three Chinese reporters attending a police briefing on the success of an anti-gun campaign were accidentally shot, media reports say. An officer pick...

Silencing Journalism

Sandra Fu | Posted 06.20.2008 | Media


Sandra Fu

Why are most of our journalists less like Edward R. Murrow and more like show ponies? What they really need to do is consider the journalists in other parts of the world where more than a salary is at stake -- they pay with their lives.

Thomas A. Johnson, Pioneering Black Journalist, Dies At 79

The New York Times | Douglas Martin | Posted 06.13.2008 | Media


Thomas A. Johnson, the first black reporter at Newsday and later, at The New York Times, one of the first black journalists to work as a foreign corre...

Caught On Camera: GOP Tosses Journalist

The Uptake | Posted 05.09.2008 | Home


The Uptake

Republicans in Minnesota have grown increasingly belligerent in keeping journalist video and audio equipment out of Republican events. The latest incident was nevertheless caught on tape.

Subsidizing Corporate Crime and Rewarding Constitutional Abuses

Shahid Buttar | Posted 04.30.2008 | Politics


Shahid Buttar

Controversial government programs are theoretically restrained by checks and balances, but neither Congress nor the courts have a way to check a secret program.

Pentagon Censoring Reporters As Guantanamo Trials Near

McClatchy | Posted 04.11.2008 | Politics


A defense lawyer lets slip at the war court convening here that a battlefield commander changed an Afghanistan firefight report in a way that seemed t...

Media Shield Law Protecting Journalists Opposed By Bush Admin

AP | Hope Yen | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media


As federal judges order more reporters to disclose their confidential sources, news organizations are pinning their hopes on congressional passage of...

Nearly 70 Percent Of Americans Believe Media Is Out Of Touch

Reuters | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media


Nearly 70 percent of Americans believe traditional journalism is out of touch, and nearly half are turning to the Internet to get their news, accordin...

Should Reporters Vote?

Washington Post | Chris Cillizza | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media


This week's Potomac Primary brought to the fore one of the most contentious questions in the world of political journalism: Should reporters vote? Al...

Massive Failure Of Journalists Allowed Steroid Culture To Fester

NY Daily News | STEVE KETTMANN | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media


Maybe I was just paying more attention than others as an age-group swimmer in California at the time, but I can recall being wowed by the guts U.S. sw...

Why Chain-Smoking Boozehounds Make The Best Journalists

Slate | Jack Shafer | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media


Every profession needs what academics call an "occupational mythology" to sustain it, a set of personal and social dramas, arrangements, and devices, ...

2007 Deadliest Year For Journalists In A Decade

AP | RICHARD PYLE | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media


A media watchdog group said Monday that 64 journalists in 17 countries have died while covering the news in 2007 _ the deadliest year in more than a d...

Torture: Most Reporters Avoid The Word While Editorials Embrace It

Editor and Publisher | Greg Mitchell | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media


As the protests surrounding revelations that the CIA had destroyed tapes that showed brutal interrogations by its agents, most new outlets refused to ...