New York Times ombudsman Byron Calame takes a good chunk of his column today to ask if it was appropriate to run the front page sequence of photos where President Bush tried to get out the wrong door after a news conference in China.
He devotes paragraph after paragraph asking how the decision was made [...]
The New York Times runs a story today with the subhead: Rewriting History and the headline: Snared in the Web of a Wikipedia Liar.
It is about John Seigenthaler Sr., the 78-years-old former editor of The Tennessean in Nashville, who a Wikipedia entry falsely accused of being involved in the assassinations of John and Bobby [...]
Just in case anthropologists, archeologists or media historians don’t have their own newspapers to weigh a century or more from now, I am providing this piece of information:
Today Sunday, December 4, 2005, with just 21 days until Christmas, the three newspapers — the Marietta (GA) Daily Journal, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and The New [...]
Slashdot contributor Robin ‘Roblimo’ Miller gives advice on how Slashdot tactics could help news organizations better connect to the Internet.
Here are some of his main headings:
1. No matter how much I or any other reporter or editor may know about a subject, some of the readers know more. What’s more, if you give [...]
Free Press–founded by Robert W. McChesney, professor at the University of Illinois–speaks out againt the Bush Administrationâs tactics, saying
Americaâs leadership is waging a war against the journalistic standards and practices that underpin not only a free press but our democracy. The Fourth Estate is withering under an unprecedented White House assault designed to intimidate, [...]
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Leonard Witt is the Robert D. Fowler Distinguished Chair in Communication at Kennesaw State University and the chief blogger of PJNet. His academic interests include public and citizen journalism and how to get citizens' voices heard. He has spent most of his professional career as an award-winning journalist.