9 March 2010, 6:11 pm
Several events converged recently that conspired to take me back to the summer of 2006, the summer I snuck into Iraq. The first event was the Iraqi elections. The second was the Oscars. The third was a concert at a little bar tucked into a hip corner of the hippest neighborhood in the world -- Willi... Read More »
9 March 2010, 2:13 pm
The Church of Scientology has hired two big names in journalism to investigate coverage in the St. Petersburg Times critical of the secretive religion. As newsrooms downsize, will we see more cases in which the target of a newspaper investigation pays reporters to turn the tables?... Read More »
9 March 2010, 11:32 am
American Today , the weekly newspaper for American University, ran this feature on last week's AU Forum and public radio broadcast of " The Climate Change Generation: Youth, Media, and Politics in an Unsustainable World ." My graduate assistant Brandee Reed has also produced a transcript of the pane... Read More »
9 March 2010, 6:45 am
HOUSTON -- Newswire.net, a subsidiary of Extensions, Inc. that is redefining the "press release," through a new type of newswire service that merges many of the functions of press release dissemination, journalism, social media and search engine optimization, today announced the launch of an innovat... Read More »
9 March 2010, 6:13 am
We know the industry is in flux. All the more reason to come meet promising new journalists from the class of 2010 at Columbia Journalism School.... Read More »
8 March 2010, 11:28 pm
The standards of journalism in this country are plummeting by the day, I sometimes feel. I'm not referring (only) to the abysmal levels of skill in deploying the English language (not that Maltese gets much of a better deal): this is an area in respect of which I am rapidly losing all hope.... Read More »
8 March 2010, 8:59 pm
Charles B. Pierce, independent filmmaker, dies at 71; Aaron Cohen, former Johnson Space Center director, dies at 79; Paul Serchia, AIDS activist and blogger, dies at 52 Charles B. Pierce... Read More »
8 March 2010, 5:29 pm
Columbia Journalism Review research finds that many magazines don't even know if their site makes a profit More than half of the consumer magazines with a monthly traffic of 1.5 million unique users and more are profitable, according to a survey. Advertising is the largest revenue source with 83% of... Read More »
8 March 2010, 11:36 am
Hours of live domestic coverage of Taliban attacks and their aftermath is a new trend in Afghan journalism. But last week, officials announced they were banning any future live coverage of attacks in Kabul. While an agreement has been reached to modify that policy, it's unclear what will happen to j... Read More »
8 March 2010, 1:01 am
With Bankrupt newspapers and an abundance of job losses among reporters, most people have turned to the Internet or blogs to get their daily news. But two men are determined to change that and save the dying journalism industry. The two authors of “The Death and Life of American Journalism” came... Read More »
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