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Pak to have first journalism awards

Islamabad—Pakistan’s first-ever journalism awards are being organized by Mishal Pakistan in collaboration with the leading Press Clubs across country, local and international media development bodies, regulatory authorities, p [...]

Posted On : Mar, 27 2012 | Comments : 0

Great journalism is worth paying for

The internet is drying up the traditional newspaper income streams of printed classified advertising and cover sales. Now the newspapers are asking their customers to pay a price through website paywalls or tablet subscriptions. But the p [...]

Posted On : Mar, 26 2012 | Comments : 0

Hacking book: what's the point of journalistic ethics if new...

Today's extract from The phone hacking scandal: journalism on trial* is from a chapter by Tim Luckhurst in which he argues that hacking is not the major problem facing British journalism. Instead, in the face of declining revenue (and [...]

Posted On : Mar, 24 2012 | Comments : 0

The AP-Google Journalism & Technology Scholarship

The Associated Press and Google announce a new national scholarship program intended to foster digital and new media skills in student journalists. The Online News Association, the world’s largest membership organization of digital [...]

Posted On : Mar, 21 2012 | Comments : 0

NABJ Awards LA Times' Gerrick Kennedy, Emerging Journalist o...

The National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) announces the selection of the Los Angeles Times' Gerrick Kennedy as this year's Emerging Journalist of the Year Award recipient, selected by the NABJ Board of Directors at its [...]

Posted On : Mar, 20 2012 | Comments : 0

Outrage over rising journalist casualties in Syria

New York The Committee to Protect Journalists expressed outrage at the number of journalists killed and detained in the year since the Syrian uprising began — the highest death toll of any country swept by the Arab Spring. The co [...]

Posted On : Mar, 16 2012 | Comments : 0

How to Become a Hyperlocal Journalist

Perhaps instead of just lamenting the loss of so many newspapers, you have decided it is time to take some sort of action. You want to join the ranks of the widening numbers of "hyperlocal" journalists. A large number of news or [...]

Posted On : Mar, 15 2012 | Comments : 0

CNN: ‘Quality journalism is good business’

Ken Jautz had better have the answers. In September 2010, Jautz took the helm of the Time Warner-owned TWX +0.94% CNN’s U.S. news operations in September 2010. Jautz, who had been running Time Warner’s Headline New [...]

Posted On : Mar, 14 2012 | Comments : 0

New Senate rules put journalists under pressure

Journalists covering proceedings of the Senate, its committees and even the working of the Senate secretariat will now have to take extra care because even a little deviation from the dotted line can land them into trouble and they can be [...]

Posted On : Mar, 12 2012 | Comments : 0

Veteran journalist P Krishnaswamy passes away

MADURAI: P Krishnaswamy (79), chief sub-editor at The New Indian Express, Madurai passed away at a city hospital on Thursday evening after a prolonged illness. Krishnaswamy suffered a cardiac arrest on Wednesday and was undergoing trea [...]

Posted On : Mar, 09 2012 | Comments : 0

Walter F. Herman, journalist

Walter Focke Herman, the former real estate editor of the old News American, who had earlier been a Baltimore Sun sports writer, died of multiple organ failure March 2 at Keswick Multi-Care Center. The Roland Park resident was 85. Born [...]

Posted On : Mar, 08 2012 | Comments : 0

Journalist reminded world of risks of profession

Because the profession is so routinely denigrated by critics or those with political agendas, it is easy to forget that journalism is an often thankless, endlessly difficult and, at times, life-threatening occupation. Marie Colvin reminde [...]

Posted On : Mar, 06 2012 | Comments : 0

Two Mexican journalists murdered

Two female journalists were found dead on Thursday in a Mexico City park. They were naked, with their hands and feet bound, and it appears that they were strangled. Joggers discovered the bodies of Ana Marcela Yarce Viveros, a veteran jou [...]

Posted On : Mar, 05 2012 | Comments : 0

Iran next target after Afghanistan

Iran’s nuclear programme is one of the most polarizing issues in one of the world’s most volatile regions. U.N. nuclear inspectors returned from Iran with no progress in their search for answers from Tehran on its alleged bid [...]