If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!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 […]
British 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Here is Josh Cohen’s announcement about Google News:
Today we’re launching a new feature on Google News that will help you quickly and easily find original stories from news publishers - including stories from some of the top news agencies in the world, such as the Associated Press, Agence France-Presse, UK Press Association and the Canadian […]
Spare a thought for the family and friends of Anthony Mitchell, of the Associated Press, feared lost on Kenya Airways FQ 507. He was 39, married, with two young children. Here’s one of his stories from April on the U.S. government’s use of Ethiopian jails in its extraordinary rendition programme.
I think that the networks, they are fed up with the massive bombs. They don’t want to see things going bang anymore. What troubles me is that - what troubles me most personally, is when I see children hurt - and those are the stories that you really want to get on the air and […]