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Al Jazeera Morocco Chief Fined
Posted by Aljazeera on 14 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: News, Africa, Journalism
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By Aljazeera.net A Moroccan court has fined Hassan Rachidi, Al Jazeera’s Rabat bureau chief, for publishing false information after the channel aired a report in which a human rights activist claimed that security forces had killed protesters in the south of the country. |
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Who Killed the Online Journalism Review and Will It Live Again?
Posted by MediaShift on 11 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: News, North America, Journalism
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By Mark Glaser, MediaShift For more than 10 years, the Online Journalism Review was published by the Annenberg School for Communications at USC as a place to follow the struggles and triumphs in the nascent field of online journalism. |
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Poynter receives $1.4m grant for online journalism training centre
Posted by Journalism.co.uk on 10 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: News, North America, Journalism
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By Laura Oliver, Journalism.co.uk US journalism training organisation The Poynter Institute has received $1.4 million in funding to improve its e-learning site. |
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Media Watchdog Warns Of Risks Of Centralised Production
Posted by The New Zealand Herald on 09 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: News, Journalism, Australia
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By The New Zealand Herald The print media’s watchdog has sounded a warning about the industry’s trend to cut costs by centralising production and sub-editing. |
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Carpenter To Protect Journalists
Posted by The Australian on 08 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: News, Journalism, Australia
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By Ryan Emery, The Australian Shield laws to protect West Australian journalists are shaping as one of the Carpenter Government’s election promises. |
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The Shameful Islamophobia At The Heart Of Britain’s Press
Posted by Independent Online on 07 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: News, Europe, Journalism
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By Peter Oborne, Independent Online When a tabloid newspaper reports that a ‘Muslim hate mob’ is daubing abuse, can we believe them? |
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Romania: 50% of news must be positive, says law proposal
Posted by The Editors Weblog on 03 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: News, Journalism
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By Jean Yves Chainon, The Editors Weblog Last week, the Romanian Senate unanimously voted a law proposal forcing media to distribute 50% of positive news. |
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Dagestani Newspaper Founder In Rare Probe
Posted by The Nation on 02 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: News, Journalism
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By Natalya Krainova, The Moscow Times Investigators in Dagestan have opened an unprecedented criminal investigation into allegations that the founder of a local newspaper was interfering in the work of his own journalists. |
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People-Funded Journalism Budding
Posted by MediaShift on 01 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: News, Journalism
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By J.D. Lasica, MediaShift Efforts like Spot.us, where citizens fund stories at the community level, are important experiments that bear watching — and, more importantly, sustained support |
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German Foundation, EU Pull Out Of Uzbek Journalist Training Program
Posted by Radio Free Europe on 30 Jun 2008 | Tagged as: News, Journalism, Middle East
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By Alisher Sidikov, Radio Free Europe Officially, it’s Media Day in Uzbekistan today, although the running joke among journalists is that the government is actually celebrating Victory Day over the country’s free and independent media. |
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News sites should invest in journalism, says Lords report
Posted by guardian.co.uk on 27 Jun 2008 | Tagged as: News, Europe, Journalism
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By Richard Way, Guardian.co.uk The boom in online news sites does not mean the UK should relax its media ownership laws, according to an influential House of Lords report. |
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Journalists, J-Students Turning To PR
Posted by Editor and Publisher on 26 Jun 2008 | Tagged as: News, Journalism
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By E&P Staff , Editor and Publisher The hard economic times for print journalism aren’t just forcing journalists to leave their old papers; it’s forcing some to leave the profession altogether, according to a report in this week’s edition of PR Week magazine. |
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The Hedonists Of Power
Posted by Truth Dig on 25 Jun 2008 | Tagged as: News, North America, Journalism
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By Chris Hedges, Truth Dig Washington has become Versailles. We are ruled, entertained and informed by courtiers. The popular media are courtiers. |
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Don Imus Misses Again: The Pacman Jones Controversy
Posted by Village Voice on 24 Jun 2008 | Tagged as: News, Journalism
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By Heather Muse, Village voice You’d think after the whole Rutgers University Women’s Basketball “nappy headed ho’s” controversy of last year that shock jock Don Imus would keep his big mouth shut about issues of race with regard to sports. |
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Peter Mackler, A Pillar Of AFP, Dies At 58
Posted by Agence France Press on 23 Jun 2008 | Tagged as: News, Europe, Journalism
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By AFP Peter Mackler, a veteran of Agence France-Presse who covered wars, elections and was the driving force behind transforming the agency’s English language service into a global powerhouse, has died at 58. |
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