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Silicon Alley Insider (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
Two former New York Post journalists are suing the paper, alleging racial discrimination in the newsroom and that they were fired in part for speaking out against a Post cartoon many considered to be racist. A suit filed yesterday by former and long-time reporter Austin Fenner says he was banned from entering the newsroom in May 2009 following his public condemnation of the cartoon...
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theonlinecitizen (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
MOM & Mica reject application without explanation. Related Posts Journalist assaulted for work on foreign workers Foreign workers are akin to the lowest life forms in Singapore Foreign labour policy & income disparity in Singapore
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Liverpool Daily Post.co.uk (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
LIVERPOOL Daily Post journalist Peter Elson has won Britain’s most prestigious award for maritime writers.
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
... is testament to his talent as a writer." Hamilton, a former deputy editor of the Yorkshire Post and a journalist at the Nottingham Evening Post for 20 years, is only the second author to win the prize twice, following in the footsteps of the Guardian's Donald McRae, who won in 1996 for Dark Trade: Lost in Boxing and in 2002 for In Black and White: The Untold Story of Joe...
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Jon Slattery (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Defeated Journalist candidate Mark Watts is continuing his campaign against the NUJ Left with a new broadside today in which he calls on NUJ general secretary Jeremy Dear to "make clear his own postion" on the group. Watts writing on his FOIA website says: "Many tricky issues about the state of journalism in Britain today need to be addressed by the National Union...
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The Cutting Edge (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
There's an internet-wide smackdown underway; it seems that a pusillanimous St.Louis Post-Dispatch journalist who doesn't like 'pussy' got someone fired for posting that word. No, he's not gay; he just doesn't care for any references to it; he's obviously frightened of 'pussy'. So much so that he got someone fired from their job for posting 'pussy' on one of his lame ...
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Gothamist (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
... assault charge that could have put the pundit behind bars for a year, but the embattled journalist's future at NY1 remains very much in the air. The station told the Times that it is "in the process of reviewing the court’s decision.” Carter's attorney told the Post that the journalist "continues to deny the charge. We’re going to fight this. It’s...
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US News (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Rick Warren Comes to WashingtonNovember 16, 2009 01:21 PM ET | | | By Dan Gilgoff, God & CountryWhen the Rev. Rick Warren walked into a conference room perched above Washington's K Street last Friday to address a group of journalists, I was surprised to see him warmly embrace a New York Times reporter. Warren literally hugged the guy. I could just imagine the Weekly Standard headline:...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
Taipei - Taiwan will relax restrictions on Chinese media coverage of the island, in yet another sign of warming cross-strait relations, a senior official said Tuesday. Effective immediately, Chinese journalists posted in Taiwan are no longer required...
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NewsBusters (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
The Washington Post on Thursday continued its quest to defeat Virginia’s Republican gubernatorial candidate, bizarrely citing a "non-partisan" group that, in reality, has endorsed Bob McDonnell’s Democratic opponent. The article by Anita Kumar contained this loaded headline: "McDonnell critics question ideology: Some saw agenda in legal opinions." Kumar quoted...
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News.com.au (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
... region to the Australian coast -- has begun to seek compensation for fishermen, The Jakarta Post journalist Muhammad Nafik told The Sunday Times. Mr Lebu Raya said he is holding the Australian Government responsible for the disaster which has hit poor Indonesian communities. About 10,000 communities with 7000 fishermen rely on the Timor Sea for a living. The fishermen say they have...
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Washington Post (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
Two years ago, a pair of Washington Post journalists left to launch Politico, a Web site that quickly established itself as a formidable force.
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Full Comment (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
... public of the world diverted in order to hide their defeat at the military field." National Post Journalist, author and blogger Terry Glavin is an adjunct professor of creative writing at the University of British Columbia and editor of Transmontanus Books. He was awarded the 2009 B.C. Lieutenant-Governor's Award for Literary Excellence.
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H5N1 (Free subscription) | 25/10/2009
If you haven't read Revere's latest Effect Measure post, Journalists sink in The Atlantic article on vaccines, you've missed the must-read of the day. And wherever you stand on the vaccine issue, you'll get a master class in how to...
