Posts Tagged ‘Journalism’
Hey, journalists, here's an idea…
I really have to just start another journalism blog, so those of you who are here for Africa don’t have to wade through this. But the journalism business problem is one with universal significance, as in, how will we good people ever know anything without…me? Anyway, here’s Journalism-Saving Idea No. 349348931, from the very clever [...]
"You're totally wrong," or, how I can single-handedly diagnose and save all of journalism
Here’s a description of what one new media guru (who’s actually kind of an old dude, so take hard, Old Guard of a Dying Industry, you too can learn new ways) has to say about teaching young journalists. I share this because it strikes me that for all the buzz of these blingy new tools–Video! [...]
The price of truth
This piece comes to me via Lara J. Nettelfield, a professor at Simon Fraser University in Canada. It’s the story of one man trying to get a good count of the number of people who died in Bosnia, and the death threats he’s getting as a thank-you. And this piece comes via Google Alerts, which [...]
Too much Times on her hands
What in the name of all things holy and profane is going on in that most precious of printed real estate, Maureen Dowd’s column space in the NYT? There is nothing–no news peg (unless the Christie Brinkley thing is one, but I’m not American-pop-culture with-it enough, halfway around the world, to know), not grander meaning, [...]
I’m really concerned about whether Angelina Jolie birthed those twins or not
No, I’m not. I just wanted to test that out and see how it feels. It feels as stupid as this little blip from the two Timeses. Apparently Entertainment Tonight–bastion of investigative journalism, guardian of a worthy and noble profession, professionals exemplar–may have been duped by someone posing as Jolie’s assistant into running a story [...]
Hearing the human, or, Why Marc Lacey is my hero
There’ve been a lot of articles about the rising price of food around the world and what it means for everything from the death of the middle class to the politics of oil nations to US agricultural subsidies to…to…to… But Marc Lacey, one of my favorite journalists and the only individual for whom I have [...]
I am a freelance journalist and multimedia producer who covers human rights, Africa and foreign affairs. [