Category: Journalism
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A Young Life Hangs in the Balance in Afghanistan's Cultural War – washingtonpost.com
While trolling the Internet last October, Afghan journalism student Sayed Perwiz Kambakhsh came across some articles that questioned the limits of women’s rights under Islam. According to Afghan prosecutors, he downloaded the articles and circulated them on campus. In the West, it would have been an innocent act. In Afghanistan, it has just earned him…
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Rick Selvin dies, was writer, editor at Daily News | Philadelphia Daily News | 02/14/2008
Rick Selvin arrived at the Daily News in 1980 to apply for a job. When he got to then-managing editor Zack Stalberg’s office, he hesitated at the door. “I’m really sorry,” Rick said. “What are you sorry about?” Zack inquired. “Well, I usually wear a necktie to these interviews,” Rick said, “but my tie was…
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The 'Inside' Story On A Mutiny In Iraq
: Kelly Kennedy and photographer Rick Kozak had gone out on a patrol earlier that morning in Adhamiyah, one of Baghdad’s worst neighborhoods before the troop “surge,” and were supposed to go on that second one during which the IED detonated — but at the last moment decided to stay and do some interviews on…
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87 Journalists Killed on the Job in 2007, China Leads in Jailing Them
Iraq was the deadliest place for journalists last year, while China led the rest of the world in jailing members of the news media and cracking down on freedom of expression, a media rights group reports. Russia and Iran also took significant steps to muzzle the media, the Paris-based Reporters Without Borders said. All told,…
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Denmark Police Arrest Several in Cartoonist Plot
Danish police said Tuesday they have arrested several people suspected of plotting to kill one of the 12 cartoonists behind the Prophet Muhammad drawings that sparked a deadly uproar in the Muslim world two years ago. The arrests were made in pre-dawn raids in Aarhus, western Denmark, “to prevent a terror-related murder,” the police intelligence…
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An Industry Imperiled by Falling Profits and Shrinking Ads – New York Times
: The talk of newspapers’ demise is older than some of the reporters who write about it, but what is happening now is something new, something more serious than anyone has experienced in generations. Last year started badly and ended worse, with shrinking profits and tumbling stock prices, and 2008 is shaping up as more…
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Challenge authority, if you dare – Los Angeles Times
: In Orlando, Sentinel photographer Sara Fajardo asked Zell at the staff meeting for his views on “the role journalism plays in the community, because we’re not the Pennysaver, we’re a newspaper.” Zell, standing at a podium, responded, “I want to make enough money so that I can afford you. You need to in effect…
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Video of Tribune CEO's profanity stirs controversy — OrlandoSentinel.com
Tribune Co. executives and Orlando Sentinel managers responded Monday to controversy that erupted after video surfaced on the Internet of new Tribune Chairman and CEO Sam Zell cursing at a Sentinel photographer in front of hundreds of employees. Zell, the billionaire real-estate tycoon who gained control of Tribune in December, used the expletive during an…
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State of the Art: Last Dispatch from Ernie Pyle
: It is just a photograph of a body at the side of a road—another death among the millions of deaths of World War II. Yet this photo, long lost and never before published, has surprised historians. The dead man in the picture is Ernie Pyle, the famed war correspondent whose dispatches painted vivid portraits…
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Pakistan Kicked Me Out. Others Were Less Lucky. – washingtonpost.com
The document he’d given me provided no explanation for my expulsion, but I immediately felt that there was some connection to the travels and reporting I had done for a story published two days earlier in the New York Times Magazine, about a dangerous new generation of Taliban in Pakistan. I had spent several months…
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Utah High Court Adopts Broad Privilege For Reporters
: The Utah Supreme Court has adopted a rule that allows reporters to refuse to identify confidential sources if called to testify in court, a protection described as one of the most sweeping in the country. “It provides near-absolute protection for confidential sources,” Jeff Hunt, an attorney for a Utah media coalition, said yesterday. The…
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Afghan Reporter's Death Sentence Draws Wide Condemnation – washingtonpost.com
: His alleged offense was distributing to classmates a report, printed from a Web site, commenting on a Muslim woman’s right to multiple marriages. The article, written in Farsi, which is close to the Dari language spoken in Afghanistan, questioned why men are allowed to have four spouses in Islam while women are denied the…
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The Angriest Man In Television
The Angriest Man In Television: “Behold the Hack, the veteran newsman, wise beyond his years, a man who’s seen it all, twice. He’s honest, knowing, cynical, his occasional bitterness leavened with humor. He’s a friend to the little scam, and a scourge of the big one. Experience has acquainted him with suffering and stupidity, venality…
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CJR: Secrets of the City
CJR: Secrets of the City: “It could be a scene from The Wire, particularly this year. The fifth and final season of David Simon’s dramatic HBO series will focus on the newsroom of a fictional paper called, like the real one, the Sun. The Wire, although fictional, explores an increasingly brutal and coarse society through…
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Comment is free: Ink-stained wretches
Comment is free: Ink-stained wretches: “But as The Wire plunges headlong into its fifth and final season, those layers of sloppy kiss print coverage have not been reciprocated by the show’s creator, David Simon. Quite the opposite, in fact. Much of The Wire’s new season grapples with the American newspaper, a once-glorious enterprise ransacked by…
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Teaching Online Journalism » Tools for young journalists
Teaching Online Journalism » Tools for young journalists: “My colleague who teaches (newspaper) editing asked me to guest-lecture in his class yesterday. He wanted me to speak about current online journalism practices. As I guest-lecture in a number of classes in our college, I have to be careful not to always say the same thing…
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Journalism Groups Chart False Statements on Iraq War
Journalism Groups Chart False Statements on Iraq War: “A study by two nonprofit journalism organizations found that President Bush and top administration officials issued hundreds of false statements about the national security threat from Iraq in the two years following the 2001 terrorist attacks.”
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Telling War Stories
Telling War Stories: “Jeff Bundy, a photographer with the Omaha World-Herald, covered a Nebraska Army National Guard unit in Iraq during fall 2005. Bundy said books he has read about Vietnam suggest it was a much easier war to cover simply because of mobility. ‘When you talk to those guys, they’d just jump on a…
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Frontline Blogger Covers War in Iraq With a Soldier’s Eyes – New York Times
Frontline Blogger Covers War in Iraq With a Soldier’s Eyes – New York Times: “Instead, he has spent most of the last three years in Iraq, writing prolifically and graphically, and racking up more time embedded with combat units than any other journalist, according to the United States military. He has been shot at, buffeted…
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Gang Leader for a Day – Sudhir Venkatesh – Book Review – New York Times
Gang Leader for a Day – Sudhir Venkatesh – Book Review – New York Times: “On a hot summer day in 1989, Sudhir Venkatesh, a callow sociology student with a ponytail and tie-dyed T-shirt, walked into one of Chicago’s toughest housing projects, clipboard in hand, ready to ask residents about their lives. Sample question: ‘How…