Search Results for 'Journalism'

India is finally seeing the birth of alternative journalism

Some journalists get confused and start believing that they make the news, rather than just reporting it. This, and journalistic groupthink, has led to a skewed discourse: India’s supposed ‘centrists’ would be considere [...]

Posted On : Jan, 12 2011 | Comments : 0

A Colossal Failure of Journalism: Jared Loughner is crazy

Yes, it is a fact that Giffords was one of the Democrats on a "target" list of incumbents whom Sarah Palin opposed in the recent mid-term election. Yes, it is a fact that the election between Giffords and Republican Jesse Kelly [...]

Posted On : Jan, 10 2011 | Comments : 0

The messy side of journalism

journalism can be downright messy, filled with complex subject matter and competing voices — all given a fair chance to explain their points of view. This kind of journalism forces readers to weigh arguments and consider evidence. [...]

Posted On : Jan, 08 2011 | Comments : 0

Helen Thomas returns to journalism

Journalist Helen Thomas, who lost her job last summer after remarks about Jews, has returned to the industry with a column in the Falls Church (Va.) News-Press. Thomas, 90, who lost her decades-long place in the White House press co [...]

Posted On : Jan, 07 2011 | Comments : 0

Two Pillars Of Journalism Fall

The departure of reporters Wayne Barrett and Tom Robbins from the Village Voice is a devastating blow to local journalism in New York. Not since the turn of the 20th century has New York been blessed with finer journalists. In the b [...]

Posted On : Jan, 06 2011 | Comments : 0

‘Yellow journalism is important’

Rani Mukerji, who is otherwise infamous for media bashing, is suddenly all praise for scribes. Reason: the actor plays a crime reporter in the forthcoming film, No One Killed Jessica. “I really respect journalism. In a world where [...]

Posted On : Jan, 05 2011 | Comments : 0

Smaller Sound Bites, Better Journalism?

Attention spans and political sound bites—what do they have in common? Popular opinion holds that both have shrunk dramatically amid the technological leaps of modern life, but in a Boston Globe piece, Craig Fehrman turns tha [...]

Posted On : Jan, 04 2011 | Comments : 0

No purpose in gutter journalism

In principle, I am very much in favour of transparency in business and politics: the disclosures by WikiLeaks are important - particularly when it comes to exposing the double-dealing of our closest ally. Newspaper entrapment of Vince Ca [...]

Posted On : Jan, 03 2011 | Comments : 0

Veteran scribe Dua to receive journalism award

The Lokmanya Tilak national award for excellence in journalism instituted by the Kesari Mahratta Trust will be conferred on veteran journalist and Rajya Sabha MP H K Dua on January 4. Speaking to mediapersons on Friday, trustee Deep [...]

Posted On : Jan, 01 2011 | Comments : 0

Journalism in East Africa just got tougher: CPJ

The Committee to Protect Journalists is on the ball these days, raising warnings about threats against journalists in the DRC and in Kenya and publishing the first of a series of reports from Burundi. Not too much to be optimistic about, [...]

Posted On : Dec, 30 2010 | Comments : 0

Retired UM Journalism Professor dies suddenly

A University of Montana professor who taught Journalism for close to 30 years died suddenly while visiting family in Missoula. Professor Emeritus Robert McGiffert died on Christmas Day at St. Patrick Hospital from the sudden onset o [...]

Posted On : Dec, 28 2010 | Comments : 0

''Some editors not following best traditions of journalism''

The Editors Guild of India has expressed concern over some well-known editors not following the "best traditions of journalism" as revealed in the Niira Radia tapes. "Members felt that this had affected the credibility of [...]

Posted On : Dec, 27 2010 | Comments : 0

Good old days of journalism weren't always so good

Well, that's it then. If the last few days have unfolded as I planned I should be on the cruise ship Rotterdam somewhere between Manzanillo and Acapulco. This being a Sunday and the last day of my 86th year on earth I shall have foun [...]

Posted On : Dec, 26 2010 | Comments : 0

Literature on journalism

Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible. He is a kind of confidence man, preying on people’s vanity, ignorance or loneliness, gaining [...]