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Blogger News Network (Free subscription) | yesterday
Time magazine has an article about overprotective parents. The Title is appropriate: The Growing Backlash Against Overparenting Fair enough. My problem is how the article is framed: …we just wanted what was best for our kids. We bought macrobiotic cupcakes and hypoallergenic socks, hired tutors to correct a 5-year-old’s “pencil-holding deficiency,” … We hovered over...
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The Irish Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
THE CREDIBILITY of the media is best defended by journalists who recognise that their loyalty to their readers is at least as important as their loyalty to their employers, the Press Ombudsman, John Horgan, has said.
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Online Journalism Blog (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Yesterday I hosted a session on law for my MA Online Journalism students, which I thought I would embed below. Some background: I teach all my sessions in a coffee shop in central Birmingham – anyone can drop in. This week I specifically invited local bloggers, and so the shape of the presentation was very much flavoured by contributions from The Lichfield Blog’s Philip John; Nick Booth...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Bloggers annual bid to stir up feelings of envy and insecurity in Westminster press corps works its magic again Iain Dale has done it again. In his annual bid to stir up feelings of envy and insecurity in the Westminster press corps, his Total Politics magazine has published its list of the top 100 political journalists . They base their results on a survey of their readers, who include MPs, peers,...
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The Publicity Hound's Blog (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
In the old days, when we used typewriters to write press releases, and then snail-mailed the releases to the media, the worst that could happen would be that the media didn't use our releases. Now that many journalists blog, the occupational hazards of bad press releases distributed online are multiplied. Send a crappy ...
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A little about .... (Free subscription) | yesterday
Mumbai, Nov 21 - ANI: Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan on Saturday assured the journalists delegation that strict actions will be initiated against the attackers of IBN Lokmat offices in Mumbai and Pune.
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People Daily (Free subscription) | yesterday
DNA test results showed that the body recovered by an official British team in Lebanon's Bekaa valley was that of British journalist Alec Collett who disappeared more than two decades ago, daily As-Safir reported on Friday. The British team searching for Collett announced that they recovered human remains on Tuesday in an area called Khellit al-Zayti, on the edge of the town of Aita al-Fakhar in the...
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Thoughts of Nigel (Free subscription) | yesterday
According to the CPJ Officials first barred reporters from entering their offices in the Odessa Television and Radio Center and then cut the power supply to their newsrooms and transmitter, silencing 12 independent broadcasters, Natalya Perevalova, chief editor of the Odessa-based independent television channel ATV, told CPJ. A move that Perevalova says follows critical reporting on corruption in the...
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Big News (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Are blogs "journalism"? As a former journalist, I think I know what journalism is. I have reported on candidates over three elections. I don't consider this blog to be journalism due to the fact that I don't often interview people and report on what they say. Neither does political journalist Audrey Young on her blog. So why No Right Turn feels the need to claim that political journalism...
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with both hands (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
By Christine M. Flowers Philadelphia Daily News I FOUND myself smiling when I heard the usual suspects criticizing the Conference of Catholic Bishops for poking its nose into the health-care debate. Actually, it was more like a smirk. When word got out that the mitered ones had lobbied for the Stupak Amendment barring tax subsidies for abortion, which I wrote about last week, pro-choice groups and...
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Digital Spy (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
A journalist is blamed for creating Katrina KaifÂ's forged marriage certificate.
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The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
A Zambian magistrate has thrown out pornography charges brought against a news editor who mailed pictures of a woman giving birth on a pavement during a doctor's strike to the vicepresident.
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The Wire (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Good news for journalists on the FT which is reportedly ending its year-long pay freeze. It is proposing a two per cent pay hike from 1 January and a new minimum salary for fully qualified senior journalists of £40,000. FT managing editor Dan Bogler told staff in a memo reported by The Guardian: “It balances a decent [...]
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Media News (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
"Google's new YouTube Direct allows amateur journalists (meaning anyone with a camera in their mobile phone) to upload video clips for a shot at their 15 seconds of fame. The broadcast news media seem to have learned the wrong lesson from the fall of print media and embracing 'citizen journalists' may expedite the extinction of traditional news as we know it." Thanks to Liz for this.
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Index on Censorship (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
On 12 November, Cuban authorities refused to issue visas for 15 international journalists hoping to report on the Global Forum for Health Research in Havana from 16-20 November. International journalism organisation Media 21, based in Switzerland, had selected 15 journalists from countries including Guatemala, Brazil, Spain, Uganda, France and the United States to cover the [...]
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traimi | 21/09/2009
It is said that sometimes, a reputed face of an industry can rise a business or knock it down to ashes with just some public words. It is the case of Reva, the Indian electric car producer, which had the bad luck of coming across with the automotive guru, Jeremy Clarkson, who didn’t have quite laudative comments about them.
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rex6666 | 30/06/2009
A few months ago, the BBCs Top Gear and Sun columnist Jeremy Clarkson , unveiled his manifesto for running Britain as PM. And since then we've had a string of celebrities contemplate running as independent MPs in wake of the scandalous MPs expenses saga, first broken by the Telegraph newspaper . Yesterday Gordon Brown was trying to reclaim the political agenda by announcing a raft of measures on social...