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Journalism in your own backyard
How free are journalists when reporting on events in their own back yard? As a young Brit working for CBS News in the late 1980s, I recall bristling at the anti-British prejudice that one correspondent brought to his reporting of the Northern Ireland story. In recent years, bloggers seeking to question the neutrality of international…
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War 2.0: Israel’s post-journalism campaign in Gaza
Whatever ones views of the rights and wrongs, Israel‘s media operation to accompany its Gaza offensive has been an object lesson in the uses and limitations of War 2.0. Talking to a senior Middle Eastern diplomat yesterday, and to a friend reporting from (or stuck) in Jerusalem, there is a (very) grudging – respect is…
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Newspapers: recreated not reinvented online
Jack Shafer has a great piece on the history of newspaper presence online. It’s an interesting addendum to the debate on journalism’s contribution to its own demise. It would be easy to accuse editors and publishers of being clueless about the coming Internet disruption and to insist that the industry’s proper reward for decades of…