Category: Journalism
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A Graphic History of Newspaper Circulation Over the Last Two Decades
Every six months, the Audit Bureau of Circulations releases data about newspapers and how many people subscribe to them. And then everyone writes a story about how some newspapers declined some amount over the year previous. Well, that’s no way to look at data! It’s confusing—and it obscures larger trends. So we’ve taken chunks of…
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Saudi female journalist sentenced to 60 lashes – washingtonpost.com
Saudi female journalist sentenced to 60 lashes Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/24/AR2009102402141.html?wprss=rss_world A Saudi court on Saturday sentenced a female journalist to 60 lashes after she had been charged with involvement in a TV show in which a Saudi man publicly talked about sex.
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Maziar Bahari's Ordeal in Tehran Prison | Newsweek
Maziar Bahari’s Ordeal in Tehran Prison Maziar Bahari’s ordeal inside Tehran’s Evin Prison. via Newsweek: http://www.newsweek.com/id/219034 For day after day, month after month, following his imprisonment in Iran on June 21, documentary filmmaker and NEWSWEEK correspondent Maziar Bahari did not see the face of his interrogator. Bahari, 42, was blindfolded or faced a wall as…
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Held by the Taliban. Part Three – The World of Young Militants
‘You Have Atomic Bombs, but We Have Suicide Bombers.’ The Taliban fighters who kidnapped David Rohde, a Times reporter, and two Afghans were guided by a strident belief that the United States was waging a war against Islam. The third installment in Mr. Rohde’s account of his captivity. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/20/world/asia/20hostage.html?_r=2&ref=world&pagewanted=all Obeying the guard, I covered…
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Held by the Taliban – Part 2 in a Series by David Rohde
Inside the Islamic Emirate After being kidnapped in Afghanistan, David Rohde, a Times reporter, and two Afghan colleagues were moved into the tribal areas of Pakistan. The second installment in a series offering Mr. Rohde’s account of his captivity. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/19/world/asia/19hostage.html?hp=&pagewanted=all On the first day there, I went to the bathroom and returned to find…
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The Media Equation – What Would It Take to Support a Newsroom?
A Newsroom Subsidized? Minds Reel A report by Leonard Downie Jr., formerly of The Washington Post, sets forth a number of ways to pay for journalism. One of them is government money. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/19/business/media/19carr.html?partner=rss&emc=rss “Fewer journalists are reporting less news in fewer pages, and the hegemony that near-monopoly metropolitan newspapers enjoyed during the last third…
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dispatches / Beyond Towering Babble: Good Schools, Real News
Link: dispatches / Beyond Towering Babble: Good Schools, Real News: “I doubt young Americans would pay for newspapers, no matter the quality,” she replied. “My generation is accustomed to free leisure activities. Many of us download music illegally, watch bootleg movies and read newspapers online because we like cheap entertainment. And why shouldn’t we, since…
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Don't Bail Out Newspapers–Let Them Die and Get Out of the Way
Link: Techtonic Shifts : Don’t Bail Out Newspapers–Let Them Die and Get Out of the Way: Frankly, a lot of newspapers just stink. People worry about the fate of the San Francisco Chronicle, but that paper has been an embarrassment for decades. The Detroit News and Detroit Free Press are in trouble, but they deserve it: for…
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Job Became Completely Humiliating So Gradually Area Man Barely Noticed
Link: Job Became Completely Humiliating So Gradually Area Man Barely Noticed | America’s Finest News Source: “Now that I think about it, a lot of little things have sort of slowly added up, like when they reduced my lunch hour to 30 minutes last October,” Durkee said while walking CFO Janice Dugan’s poorly behaved English…
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Controversy Over How, Why Post Piece Was Killed, If Publisher Weymouth Involved
Link: Controversy Over How, Why Post Piece Was Killed, If Publisher Weymouth Involved – washingtonpost.com: A Post Magazine editor encouraged Matt Mendelsohn to pursue the story after reviewing his photos of Ess. But the atmosphere apparently soured after Weymouth told Mendelsohn at a birthday brunch in her honor that this was not the sort of…
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Military's Killing of 2 Journalists in Iraq Detailed in New Book
Link: Military’s Killing of 2 Journalists in Iraq Detailed in New Book – washingtonpost.com: The Reuters photographer and driver were carrying cameras and walking with a group of Iraqi men, some of whom appeared to be armed, when a U.S. helicopter crew mistook them for insurgents, according to an account by David Finkel in the…
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War Crimes Court Convicts Journalist of Contempt
Link: War Crimes Court Convicts Journalist of Contempt – washingtonpost.com: The case against Florence Hartmann — who covered the Bosnian war as a reporter in the 1990s, became spokeswoman for the tribunal prosecutor from 2000 to 2006, then returned to writing — has been denounced as a waste of the court’s time and money and…
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Too Close for Comfort? : CJR
Link: Too Close for Comfort? : CJR: The dramatic change in Ricks’s writing about the military in Iraq reflects a broader shift that has taken place in the coverage of the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. The doctrine of counterinsurgency has received almost uniformly positive press coverage, at times making it appear to be…
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The Reporter’s Account: 4 Days With the Taliban – At War Blog
Link: The Reporter’s Account: 4 Days With the Taliban – At War Blog – NYTimes.com: Stephen Farrell, a reporter for The New York Times, and Sultan M. Munadi, an Afghan journalist working with him, were kidnapped by the Taliban in northern Afghanistan on Saturday. In a British raid to free them early Wednesday, Mr. Munadi…
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John Burns Discusses Sultan Munadi – At War Blog
Link: John Burns Discusses Sultan Munadi – At War Blog – NYTimes.com: Sultan Munadi is dead, and a British paratrooper whose name we may never know. There may also have been Afghan casualties, perhaps Taliban, perhaps not; that we also don’t know yet, for sure. But from where I am writing this, on a sunny…
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Seized Times Reporter Is Freed in Afghan Raid That Kills Aide
Seized Times Reporter Is Freed in Afghan Raid That Kills Aide – NYTimes.com: Armed gunmen seized Stephen Farrell and his interpreter, Sultan Munadi, four days ago while they were working in a village south of Kunduz.
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Cuban's Plan to Kill Aggregators: End Free Links
Cuban’s Plan to Kill Aggregators: End Free Links | Newsweek Daniel Lyons: Since the dawn of the Internet, news organizations have accepted the notion that the only way to survive the onslaught of the Web is to publish everything online, at no cost to readers, and let anyone in the world synopsize it, refer to…
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Getting Lost – Jenna Isaacson Pfueller
Getting Lost – sportsshooter: In my thirty-one years I’ve lost a lot of things. Car keys, fights with roommates, favorite pairs of socks, photo contests, both of my parents and occasionally my mind. But nothing prepared me for losing a job, especially over the phone. Especially when they knew I’d be alone to hear the…
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With Fwix iPhone App, All a Cub Reporter Needs Is a Scoop
With Fwix iPhone App, All a Cub Reporter Needs Is a Scoop – NYTimes.com: The site, Fwix, will release an iPhone application this week that enables its users to file news updates, photos and videos, live from the field. The items will appear on Fwix’s year-old Web site, which also collects links to local news…
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At The Journal News, Everyonersquo;s Laid Off and Welcome to Reapply
The Media Equation – At The Journal News, Everyone’s Laid Off and Welcome to Reapply – NYTimes.com: Specifically, the 288 news and advertising employees at The Journal News were told that jobs were being redefined and that they all would need to reapply for the new positions and that by the time the re-org music…