Journalism

Schwarzenegger Signs California Journalism Teacher Protection Act

Esther Wojcicki | Posted 10.12.2008 | Media

Read More: Arnold Schwarzenegger, California Senate Bill 1370, Meet the Press, First Amendment, Press Freedom, Teachers, Journalism, Media News
Esther Wojcicki

More states need to pass laws like California's protecting student rights to free speech and making the workplace safer for teachers.

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20/20 Has Slanted Vision

Andy Bernstein | Posted 10.10.2008 | Media

Read More: Television, Abc, Entertainment, Voter Registration, Voters, Headcount, 20/20, Media, 2008 Election, Journalism, John Stossel, Voter Drive, Media News
Andy Bernstein

When producers from ABC's 20/20 called, it was naïve of us to believe that they would do anything but use the worst interviews of the dozens at their disposal.

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How News Outlets Should Maximize Youth Post-Election Civic Engagement

Maegan Carberry | Posted 10.07.2008 | Media

Read More: Campain 2008, Millennial Generation, Media Coverage of 2008 Election, Journalism, Msm, Media News
Maegan Carberry

In most social networks - online and offline - there is typically a handful of influencers who lead their peers in suggesting valuable news bits and facilitating activism.

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Gwen Ifill -- Not Tough Enough

Yvonne R. Davis | Posted 10.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: Pbs, Edward Murrow, Msnbc, John McCain, Hillary Clinton Media Bias, Katie Couric Palin Interview, The Breakthrough: Politics in the Age of Obama, Joe Biden, Chris Matthews, Journalism, Barack Obama, Ifill Moderator, Vice Presidential Debate, Gwen Ifill Debate, Gwen Ifill, Sarah Palin, 2008 Vice Presidential Debate, Media Bias, Politics News
Yvonne R. Davis

Perhaps Ifill's soft questioning and at times repetitive questions at the beginning and end of the debate was her way to prove to conservatives she was not playing favorites.

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Better than Lipstick on a Pig

Timothy Karr | Posted 09.24.2008 | Media

Read More: 2008 Elections, Free Press, Debates, Citizen Journalism, Journalism, Big Media, Foreign Policy Presidential Debate, National Security Presidential Debate, Media Coverage of 2008 Election, Democratic Abc Debate, ABC Debate, Media News
Timothy Karr

We have built a tool that will allow thousands of debate watchers to "score" the performance of the media moderators during the final four presidential and vice presidential debates.

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Spending Our Way Into the Apocalypse

Andrew Sargus Klein | Posted 09.22.2008 | Media

Read More: 2.0, Magazine, Esquire, October, Strategy, Print, Green News, Web, E-Ink, Cover, New Media, Media, Journalism, David Granger, Media News
Andrew Sargus Klein

The whole scenario found in this month's Esquire verges on gallows humor.

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An Open Letter to Charlie Gibson

Jason Pollock | Posted 09.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: Jason Pollock, Abc, Charlie Gibson, Sarah Palin, Open Letter, Journalism, Interview, Politics News
Jason Pollock

I have to be honest with you Charlie, I was a little bit more than disappointed. I would say that I was downright disgusted with what you did. You held Mrs. Palin's hand and let her walk all over you.

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Foreign Media Use Professional Journos To Blog

Jillian York | Posted 09.16.2008 | Home

Read More: Journalists, Sarah Palin Reaction, Political Journalism, Journalism, Sarah Palin, Foreign Policy, Mainstream Media, Blog Election, Foreign Blogs, Home News
Jillian York

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

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Iraqi Journalist Narrowly Escapes Assassination

AP | ROBERT H. REID | Posted 09.09.2008 | Media

Read More: Iraq, Journalism, Iraqi Journalists, Al-Arabiya Television, Freedom of Speech, Media News

BAGHDAD — An Iraqi journalist for one of the Middle East's best-known satellite television stations escaped assassination Tuesday when a bomb wa...

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At the Wall Street Journal, Firewall Crumbling?

Gerald Bracey | Posted 08.27.2008 | Home

Read More: Rupert Murdoch, Sat, Test Scores, Wall Street Journal, Journalism, Home News
Gerald Bracey

At the Wall Street Journal, Firewall Crumbling? The best newspapers try to establish a firewall between the reporting staff and the editorial folk. ...

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Journalism With Conscience

Mike Ragogna | Posted 08.25.2008 | Media

Read More: George Bush, News Corp, John McCain, Moby, Georgian Conflict, A Charlie Brown Christmas, Rnc, Clear Channel, Katie Kurek, Paul Simon, Washington D.C., Christmas, G.O.P., Media, Barack Obama, Journalism, Edward R. Murrow, Charlie Brown, Bob Woodward, Politics, Charles Schultz, Carl Bernstein, Peanuts, Rupert Murdoch, CBS News, Fox News, Sally Brown, Lucy, Media News
Mike Ragogna

In A Charlie Brown Christmas, Charles Schultz scripted a line for Chuck's little sister Sally about a big syndicate back east that controlled the holi...

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Journalists Kidnapped In Somalia

CNN | Posted 08.24.2008 | Media

Read More: Journalists, Journalists Kidnapped, Somalia, Journalism, Media News

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

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McCain Campaign Strategy Working: Media Reporting "No Difference" on Global Warming

A. Siegel | Posted 08.20.2008 | Media

Read More: Energy, Npr, 2008 Presidential Campaign, Media, Global Warming, Journalism, John McCain, Media News
A. Siegel

There are fundamental differences between McCain's and Obama's positions and fundamental differences about the prospects for the future between President McSame and President Obama.

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McCain Lied or Was Confused: You Make the Call

A. Siegel | Posted 08.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: Renewable Energy, Energy, Alternative Energy, Journalism, John McCain, Politics News
A. Siegel

John McCain has been AWOL for critical vote after vote on energy issues. The audacity of the claims that he's never missed an important one is simply astounding.

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Iran Executes Journalist Convicted Of Terrorism

AP | LAUREN FRAYER | Posted 08.05.2008 | Home

Read More: Iran, Journalist, Journalism, Terrorism, Execution, Newspapers, Home News

CAIRO, Egypt — An Iranian journalist sentenced to death on terrorism charges has been executed in what a human rights group on Tuesday called a ...

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Did Google Kill Journalism?

Steve Rosenbaum | Posted 08.03.2008 | Media

Read More: Iraq 4000 Deaths, Embedded Journalists, Suicide Bombers, Marines Iraq Suicide Bomb, Iraq, Censorship, Journalism, Media News
Steve Rosenbaum

The death of Journalism began it was expected to begin to earn a profit -- or maybe we're witnessing the birth of Journalism.

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Time to Honor Our Fallen Heroes

Sen. Frank Lautenberg | Posted 08.01.2008 | Home

Read More: Lautenberg, Iraq, Iraq War, War in Iraq, Afghanistan, War in Afghanistan, Veterans, Iraq Veterans, Military, U.S. Military, Arlington Cemetary, Dover Air Force Base, Pentagon, Pentagon Propaganda, Iraq and Pentagon, Lebanon, Terrorism, War on Terror, Media, Media Coverage, Media News, Journalism, Political Journalism, Iraq War Journalists, Ethics in Journalism, New Jersey, New Jersey Senator, Senate, U.S. Senate, Frank Lautenberg, Walter Reed, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, First Amendment, Free Press, Bush Administration, Bush Administration Spin, George W. Bush, George Bush, Bush, President Bush, Funeral, Iraq War Funerals, Home News
Sen. Frank Lautenberg

We have had a long tradition of coming together as a nation to memorialize our fallen heroes--the men and women whose lives were lost on the battlefie...

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Context, Schmontext at WaPo

David Quigg | Posted 08.01.2008 | Media

Read More: Washington Post, Election 2008, Dana Milbank, Media, Barack Obama, Journalism, Obama Symbol, Media News
David Quigg

Sloppy, sensationalistic journalism (like that of Dana Milbank at the Washington Post) eventually makes all of us dumber. It eventually hurts all the candidates. Demand better.

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When Bad PR Happens to Good People, or, Jeffrey Birnbaum's Revenge

William Klein | Posted 07.30.2008 | Media

Read More: Washington Post, Jeffrey Birnbaum, Ethics in Journalism, Newspaper Op-Eds, Journalism, Public Relations, Dick Van Dyke, Sclc, Congressional Record, Calvin Trillin, Charles Steele, Jr., Victor Navasky, Media News
William Klein

Washington Post columnist Jeffrey Birnbaum has his panties in a twist again about the practice of public policy advocates employing professional writers to help them draft newspaper op-eds.

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A Man for This Season

Jan Herman | Posted 07.30.2008 | Media

Read More: Mainstream Media, Journalists, Chris Hedges, Journalism, Media News
Jan Herman

When asked whom he'll vote for, Chris Hedges says, "I'm going to vote for Nader. Part of it is a moral issue. I can't vote for anybody who doesn't call for an immediate end to the war in Iraq."

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Former Knight-Ridder Editor Wins First I.F. Stone Medal

Dan Froomkin | Posted 07.24.2008 | Media

Read More: Knight-Ridder, Mcclatchy, Journalism, Iraq, John Walcott, I.F. Stone, Media, Media News
Dan Froomkin

The Nieman Foundation and its Watchdog Project this year established an I.F. Stone Medal for journalistic independence. I'm delighted to announce th...

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McCain to New York Times: Dammit My Friend, Can't You See? I Am Right, Obama's Wrong. Let Me Repeat...

Rob Kall | Posted 07.22.2008 | Media

Read More: John McCain Iraq, Media Journalists Endangered, Journalism, Right Wing Spin, Media Fox News, Fox News, NY Times, Media New York Times, John McCain, Mccain New York Times, McCain New York Times Article, Obama-Barack, Drudgereport, Media News
Rob Kall

I give the New York Times extra credit for not publishing the McCain piece. The op-ed might have sold some extra papers, but it would have definitely not been up to the standards of the paper.

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Who Deserves a Journalist's Shield?

Scott Gant | Posted 07.21.2008 | Media

Read More: Journalists Shield Law, Journalists, First Amendment, Citizen Journalism, Journalism, Shield Law, Media News
Scott Gant

The lines distinguishing professional journalists from other people who disseminate information have been blurred, but a federal shield law for journalists would have to take a stand regarding that very question.

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I Long for The Good Ol' Days

Kevin Marousek | Posted 07.18.2008 | Home

Read More: Reporting, Sound Bites, Pundits, Obama, Mccain, Jesse Jackson, Media, Journalism, Home News
Kevin Marousek

Instead of hearing about the substance of the campaigns, we have to sit through countless political analysts and pundits weighing in on trivial remarks

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Chinese Reporters Shot At Anti-Gun Press Conference

BBC | Posted 07.18.2008 | Home

Read More: Journalists, Gun Violence, Gun Control, Irony, Journalism, China, Home News

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

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