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11th Sun journalist questioned by police

TONY EASTLEY: Another journalist from The Sun in Britain has been arrested as part of the investigation into corrupt payments to police and public servants. The paper's defence editor is the eleventh employee from the tabloid to face [...]

Posted On : Mar, 02 2012 | Comments : 0

The ethical challenges in business journalism

When it comes to ethical challenges in business journalism, the media industry has some strong views on it. While some feel that ethics is more of one’s inherent sense of fairness and integrity, others want definitive codes of condu [...]

Posted On : Feb, 29 2012 | Comments : 0

Rethinking the role of journalism education

One of the key roles of the university has to foster critical thinking, graduating students who have the ability to ask the right questions and think through solutions to problems. For the revival of the Carnival of Journalism, David Cohn [...]

Posted On : Feb, 28 2012 | Comments : 0

Marie Colvin, a journalistic force of nature

"Joohhnn," she said in her lazy New York drawl, "this is going to be so much fun", her one eye twinkling with mischief. We had decided that Marie would be the skipper as she had sailed the Fastnet race twice and the Mi [...]

Posted On : Feb, 27 2012 | Comments : 0

Why teaching journalistic ethics is only the start of a cure

First, despite the growing level of redundancies across the media and the bad odour created by phone hacking, young people remain eager to become journalists. Most university journalism courses remain over-subscribed. That's certai [...]

Posted On : Feb, 23 2012 | Comments : 0

Birth of long-form journalism

It’s the most important book of 2012 that you are unlikely to read; or at least that’s what the statistics say. Katherine Boo’s new book, Behind the Beautiful Forevers, about a slum in Mumbai has won praise from India&rs [...]

Posted On : Feb, 22 2012 | Comments : 0

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

How to Write a Journalism Profile Story

The key to writing a good journalism profile is discovering an interesting tale to tell. A profile is a narrative with a purpose: telling the everyday story of someone---perhaps a well-known figure, perhaps not---in a unique way that tran [...]

Posted On : Feb, 16 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 [...]