Digital utopians have heralded the dawn of an era in which Web 2.0 — distinguished by a new generation of participatory sites like MySpace.com and YouTube.com, which emphasize user-generated content, social networking and interactive sharing — ushers in the democratization of the world: more information, more perspectives, more opinions, more everything, and most of it [...]

Strategic training for journalists is helping news organisations build readership and drive online innovation, a new book has affirmed. News, Improved: How America’s Newsrooms Are Learning to Change, which reports findings of the first-of-its-kind $10 million training and research project by the John S and James L Knight Foundation, comes at a critical time as the [...]

If a book on the Indian media business prompts its author to rush into a revised edition within three years of its bestselling success, it means only one thing – the Indian media landscape is changing, and changing quite rapidly. THE BOOK FOR THE SEASON: When Vanita Kohli-Khandekar wrote The Indian Media Business in 2003, it [...]

July 13, 2006: Two local journalism professors have produced guidebooks on Canadian journalism ethics that offer some hope to scribes toiling in the trenches of big media and the audiences enduring the daily drivel they produce. Stephen Ward’s The Invention of Journalism Ethics: The Path to Objectivity and Beyond and Nick Russell’s Morals and the Media: [...]

In early 2004, Pat Robertson divined the outcome of the presidential election, then ten months away. “I think George Bush is going to win in a walk,” he said on a broadcast of “The 700 Club.” “I really believe I’m hearing from the Lord it’s going to be like a blowout election in 2004.” God – [...]

A journalism center in Moldova has released a book that collects 75 investigative pieces produced over the past four years. “Dosarul Coruptiei,” or “The Corruption Dossier,” features articles on various aspects of corruption and the plight of ordinary citizens who face it. The Center of Journalistic Investigations released the book at a December 20 news conference, [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) A new book on the government’s secret anti-terrorism operations describes how the CIA recruited an Iraqi-American anesthesiologist in 2002 to obtain information from her brother, who was a figure in Saddam Hussein’s nuclear program. Dr. Sawsan Alhaddad of Cleveland made the dangerous trip to Iraq on the CIA’s behalf. The book said her brother [...]

As with lots of pressing issues people grapple with, complaints about the media invite a partisan clash: liberal vs. conservative; Democrat vs. Republican. Or some other “us” against a readily targeted “them.” But maybe there’s a more useful, even unifying mind-set: to see the media delivery system for news, entertainment and other programming as being skewed [...]

The 1960s was the “anything goes” decade; a time when LSD, hippies, rock ‘n’ roll and free love were youth’s reactions to the assassinations of its leaders and a war in Vietnam. It was a time when a few journalists wanted to be hip and cover the cultural revolution from the inside. They believed that the [...]

The Times of India, by any means, is not the largest circulated daily in the country. Yet, if one sifts through all media criticism in various media, one would see that most of it is de facto criticism of this newspaper alone. Not without reason, though. And we will go into these reasons in good [...]

NEW YORK: Who are the greatest editorial writers of all time? Michael Gartner, who won a Pulitzer for editorial wiring in 1997, names his top four as Horace Greeley, Henry Watterson, William Allen White, and Vermont Royster, in a book due out next month that he co-produced with the Newseum. The lavishly-illustrated book is titled “Outrage, [...]

Imagine, if you will, James Cameron reporting from the Berlin Airlift today. There he is in a bar, about to order another whisky, when his phone rings. “James, desk here, Bild website are saying flights are due to start. Can you re-nose your piece?” Or William Russell in the Crimea, receiving yet another email from the [...]