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Tablet journalism is the future - but what are we doing abou...

Here are some words of wisdom from John Meehan, former editor of the Hull Daily Mail, in an InPublishing article, Sustaining community journalism in the regions. "The industry cannot be focused predominantly on print. The platform is [...]

Posted On : Nov, 26 2011 | Comments : 0

Yemeni journalist honoured for Arab Spring coverage

Khaled al-Hammadi doesn’t like being recognized. As a journalist in his native Yemen, he goes out of his way to dodge the watchful eyes of government forces and hired thugs. But the attention-averse al-Hammadi, 43, is finally ste [...]

Posted On : Nov, 24 2011 | Comments : 0

Ampatuan massacre becomes global rallying cry for journalist...

the second anniversary of the Ampatuan massacre in the Philippines — is being marked by journalists worldwide as the first International Day to End Impunity. Fifty-eight people, including 32 journalists, were killed in the town of A [...]

Posted On : Nov, 23 2011 | Comments : 0

Journalists-in-exile making news

When news breaks in Nigeria, Omoyele Sowore is there. His Web news operation was the first to publish a photo of the Nigeria-born “underwear bomber” arrested in December 2009, and when a suicide bombing this summer shook a U.N [...]

Posted On : Nov, 21 2011 | Comments : 0

What Happens When Journalism Is Everywhere?

Square and reports were streaming out through Twitter and Facebook, it was easy to feel superior to the Egyptian government. How could they not realize that information can no longer be contained by blockades or even Internet blackouts wh [...]

Posted On : Nov, 19 2011 | Comments : 0

Journalism eats world

What I’m about to say won’t be on the nightly news. It won’t run in The New York Times or the Wall Street Journal either. You won’t hear about it on CNN and pundits will not sit at a round table and mindlessly bick [...]

Posted On : Nov, 18 2011 | Comments : 0

Chance for journalists to re-engage with public

THE way out of the ''current crisis'' in journalism will partly depend on redefining what news is as well as on journalists being more responsive to audiences, the publisher and editor-in-chief of the Herald and Sun-Herald [...]

Posted On : Nov, 17 2011 | Comments : 0

China to tighten reporting rules for journalists

Authorities in China this week announced new and tighter regulations governing journalists, one of several recent actions aimed at controlling rumors and diluting the influence of the nation’s rapidly growing microblogs. In a sta [...]

Posted On : Nov, 14 2011 | Comments : 0

How a Broward reporter beat journalism’s giants

If Sara Ganim, then a senior at Archbishop McCarthy High School, hadn’t been so obstinate to her parents’ demands she attend Central Florida and not Penn State, would the Coral Springs native have spent the past week hailed as [...]

Posted On : Nov, 12 2011 | Comments : 0

Journalists Join the 99 Percent

The "We Are the 99 Percent" ripoff Tumblr craze is spreading, and naturally disgruntled editors and reporters are joining the trend. "We Are Journalists" is a nearly a carbon-copy of "We Are the 99 Percent," [...]

Posted On : Nov, 10 2011 | Comments : 0

Herman Cain harassment story was good journalism

Herman Cain, unwilling to defend himself on the merits against the sexual harassment allegations against him, has taken to having his campaign pass out copies of the “journalistic code of ethics” to reporters who dare ask him [...]

Posted On : Nov, 08 2011 | Comments : 0

Poker machines are a bigger problem than spot-betting on spo...

Disgraced Pakistani cricketers Salman Butt, Mohammad Amir and Mohammad Asif have all been jailed by an English court, along with player agent Mazhar Majeed, for match-fixing described by the judge as a betrayal of fans. It's an e [...]

Posted On : Nov, 06 2011 | Comments : 0

Nature Journaling: Finding Your Own Way

Earlier this year, while attending a homeschool conference, I had a conversation with a mother about nature studies and nature journaling. She had decided that her students would do nature journals and had started off with a vengeance to [...]

Posted On : Nov, 05 2011 | Comments : 0

Journalism is about giving people something important, not m...

JUST WHAT is meant by “positive news stories”? For Eamon Dunphy it is “happy- clappy stuff”. For his former boss, the chief executive of Newstalk, Frank Cronin, positive news would counteract the feeling of “ [...]