Category: Journalism

  • How to blog for the Washington Post

    A local Washington paper has reprinted the Washington Post’s guide for in-house bloggers [HT: Lost Remote]. It isn’t exactly the secret recipe for Coca-Cola, but hey…here it is. Blogging at The Washington Post All blogs should draw on our principles for Washington Post journalism on the web, including meeting our standards of accuracy and fairness…

  • Fox News Porn

    You have probably come across Robert Greenwald, the man behind Outfoxed. He has a new campaign against Fox News called Fox News Porn, and his YouTube film is below. Fox News would doubtless argue that “celebrating heterosexuality” and casting a prurient eye over sex videos were in complete accord with its conservative values. What Greenwald’s…

  • Al Jazeera English: an email exchange

    I wrote an anniversary review of Al Jazeera English recently, pointing out the dilemma of running a globally “progressive-minded” news channel on behalf of a despotic regime. Here is an email exchange with someone at Al Jazeera English in Doha, responding to that piece: …I am a tad disappointed with your recent Press Gazette article…

  • How to strike creatively