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Are our Media Commercializing Humaninty?

Abirami — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 06:46:07 +0000

Hanging of Saddam ... Tsunami tragedy... Nandigram violence... Pakistan’s Emergency crisis... U.S election... Arushi murder case... N-Deal and UPA govt vote of confidence... For break fast, lunch and dinner...we watched it all with...

Reuters : Bearing Witness (Iraq)

Graeme — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:30:28 +0000

This is a great collection of video and photography in a flash multimedia montage. Profiles, journalistic views on covering the story in Iraq, an interactive timeline, maps and more resources related to the Iraq war. All these images are...

Hello News Media, Why do you do this everytime?

Sivasubramanian Muthusamy — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:13:26 +0000

There was an instablog newslink that loudly announced “Indian American jailed for stealing 9/11 funds” and the link lead to the original news item from thaindian.com which had as its RSS feed for comments as “on Indian American...

Immune to Critics, SecretSpilling Wikileaks Plans to Save Journalism ... and the World

Shelly — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 20:03:53 +0000

When online troublemaker Julian Assange co-founded Wikileaks, the net\’s premiere document-leaking site last year, some were skeptical that the service would produce anything of...

N.Y. Times wins 3 Loeb Awards; Sloan gets his 7th

AP — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 02:53:53 +0000

The New York Times on Monday received three Loeb Awards, among the highest honors in business journalism, while Fortune magazine’s Allan Sloan won his seventh Loeb...

The New York Times Sinks to a New Low

Kim — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 21:29:11 +0000

For years now, the New York Times has been losing readers, laying off staff, cutting content, watching its stock price plummet and drowning in a sea of red ink. Even before the Jayson Blair scandal, when one of its reporters was discovered to...

Stories that Told Too Much

Grace — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 05:14:14 +0000

In shades of “Psycho”, the victims had the same profile and were similar to the murderer’s mother, with whom he had a troubled relationship. Police began suspecting when his reports on the murders had yet unrevealed...

Tim Russert: The Smile That Lit Up Journalism

Dharmendra — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 23:18:12 +0000

He was an expert at journalism, politics and the ways of the world, yes, but he also seemed to have mastered happiness. He’d won trophies and plaques and certificates by the score, and if there were an award for getting what you want out of...

Training helps bloggers hone professionalism

AP — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:56:56 +0000

Miami real estate agent Lucas Lechuga began blogging to share his knowledge of the local market. He didn’t bargain for a $25 million defamation lawsuit when he wrote that a Miami developer had gone bankrupt decades...

Press war - Express vs Hindu vsTimes vs DC

Abirami — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 02:48:04 +0000

There is a huge competition going on in Chennai among the English dailies. Once we had the option of reading only two news papers in English -The Hindu or The Indian Express. Now things have changed, Deccan chronicle is busy competing with the...