Blogs Posts in Journalists category; 58 blog posts

Consider David Foster Wallace, journalist

On Tuesday, David Foster Wallace would have turned 50 years old, an occasion that has even inspired conferences. After his death and canonization into what looks like an entire field of academic study, there remains a popular critical not [...]

Posted On : Feb, 21 2012 | Comments : 0

Journalist Richard Blood Dies at 83

NEW YORK—Richard J. Blood, a former city editor at the New York Daily News who nurtured a generation of young journalists while teaching for more than two decades at the Columbia University School of Journalism and New York Universi [...]

Posted On : Feb, 20 2012 | Comments : 0

Journalists from The Sun look to sue News International afte...

Mr Murdoch has arrived at his London home, according to an AFP photographer, ahead of a planned visit to The Sun's offices. The Australian-born media proprietor, who shut down The Sun's weekly stablemate, the News of the World, in [...]

Posted On : Feb, 17 2012 | Comments : 0

Captive journalist calls on Rudd to intervene

Freelance reporter Austin Mackell has been barred from leaving the Egypt, a day after he and four others were released from detention on suspicion of bribing activists. “I would like to know that Kevin Rudd is paying attention an [...]

Posted On : Feb, 15 2012 | Comments : 0

Journalists arrange welcome party for TUJ

LANDIKOTAL: Tribal journalists on Monday arranged a welcome party for their newly elected office-bearers at the Tribal Union of Journalists (TUJ) office in Peshawar and paid tributes to their fellows killed in the line of duty. A large [...]

Posted On : Feb, 14 2012 | Comments : 0

Bad press blots journalism's public purpose

For two months, a succession of celebrities, a gaggle of nervous editors and a procession of tabloid "victims" has taken the stand in court 73 at the Royal Courts of Justice, a few minutes walk from Fleet Street, where Britain&# [...]

Posted On : Feb, 13 2012 | Comments : 0

Channel 4 investigative journalist program open [Britain]

Aspiring investigative journalists can apply to a training program. The Channel 4 investigative journalism training scheme is accepting applications for a program with placements in Glasgow, Manchester and London. The program will offer c [...]

Posted On : Feb, 11 2012 | Comments : 0

Journalist, John Cunningham, dies at 66

Aged 66 and a native of Tuam, County Galway, Mr Cunningham was editor of the Connacht Tribune newspaper from 1984 to 2007. He had also worked as editor for the Waterford News and Star from 1982 to 1984. In 2006, he was conferred with an H [...]

Posted On : Feb, 08 2012 | Comments : 0

A badge of good journalism: We need 'kite mark' for press st...

A new era of newspaper self-regulation was set out by the editor of the Daily Mail yesterday. Paul Dacre proposed a fresh system of accrediting journalists which could be the ‘essential kite mark’ to safeguard press standards. [...]

Posted On : Feb, 07 2012 | Comments : 0

A Journalist Who Made History

It's been said journalists write the first draft of history, noted one participant in a panel discusssion carried on the CSPAN network Saturday morning. George Esper would have smiled to hear that, I thought as I watched. Much of w [...]

Posted On : Feb, 05 2012 | Comments : 0

US journalists want to explore city

Journalists from the United States wish to see the good things in Karachi to be able to understand and know what’s happening here. “We need to know about the problems and the kind of work that’s being done in the city [...]

Posted On : Feb, 03 2012 | Comments : 0

Three Iranian journalists arrested in fresh crackdown

At least three prominent journalists have been arrested in Iran in a fresh crackdown on press freedom ahead of the country's parliamentary elections in March. Two journalists, Marzieh Rasouli and Parastoo Dokouhaki, and photojourna [...]

Posted On : Jan, 19 2012 | Comments : 0

Journalist Carole Simpson to speak at Acton gathering on Mar...

Acton, Mass. — For Carole Simpson, it was a meeting well worth the wait. The year was 1966. For Simpson, then a 24-year-old rookie reporter, a hard-won interview with civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. not only helped Simpso [...]

Posted On : Jan, 16 2012 | Comments : 0

Journalists’ campaign-trail secrets revealed

I’ve long suspected that if editors knew how little journalism occurs on the campaign trail, they would never pay our expenses. Forget door-knocking. In reality, it’s more trainspotting. Reporters hang out at candidate appeara [...]