Tag Archives: Associated Press

What would Jeff do?

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In case you hap­pen to be a journ­al­ist and Jeff Jar­vis still has you think­ing that news­pa­per prob­lems are your fault, take a look at the New York Times from July, 1980 (and if you like catchy head­lines, they don’t come much catch­ier than this):

First U.S. Exper­i­ments in Elec­tronic News­pa­pers Begin in Two Com­munit­ies; 13 News­pa­pers to Be Added The Need for News­pa­pers A Com­mu­nic­a­tions Devel­op­ment Tele­phone, Cable and Air­waves A Warn­ing on Reg­u­la­tion [pay access]. Con­tinue read­ing →

Arguing against Nick Davies

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Flat Earth News by Nick DaviesBritish writer Nick Dav­ies is an inspir­a­tion to a lot of young journ­al­ists, and rightly so (you can read more of his writ­ing on social issues here). But now he has moved from cov­er­ing drugs and crim­inal justice to report on journ­al­ism. And in doing so, he com­mis­sioned some research to back up his cri­ti­cisms and ana­lysis. Con­tinue read­ing →

Reporting from Zimbabwe: Al Jaz vs. AP

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Mean­while, over at the Asso­ci­ated Press:

The gov­ern­ment com­mand­eered buses and state rail­road cars to carry Pres­id­ent Robert Mugabe’s sup­port­ers from across the coun­try for a march and rally near Har­are Friday.

The rally was a show of strength for Mugabe before a party meet­ing next month at which his con­tin­ued lead­er­ship was likely to be debated, and before pres­id­en­tial elec­tions next year in which he was expec­ted to run.

“The people will speak. Out­siders must keep their hands off,” Mugabe said to cheers from supporters.

He also ridiculed Bri­tain, the former colo­nial power, for “dis­cuss­ing us every week in their stu­pid parliament.”

An estim­ated 40,000 sup­port­ers marched from down­town Har­are to a one-time sports field in the nearby town­ship of High­field, where they were joined by thou­sands more rural sup­port­ers car­ry­ing umbrel­las against sea­sonal rains.

The McCann coverage, my two cents

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Demon­strat­ing, per­haps, my MBO (Mas­ter of the Bleed­ing Obvi­ous*) skills, here are my recent con­tri­bu­tions to cov­er­age of the ongo­ing Madeleine McCann saga. From the Asso­ci­ated Press:

And play­ing com­ment­ator tag in Time with Charlie Beck­ett:

For earlier posts — from May — see here and here.

*Basil Fawlty: Next con­test­ant, Mrs. Sybil Fawlty from Torquay. Spe­cial­ist sub­ject — the bleed­ing obvi­ous.