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Newspaper Guild President Bernie Lunzer questions a newspaper’s decision to seek corporate donations to fund a trip to Afghanistan. Lunzer reports, “A financial arrangement between The New Hampshire Union Leader – the state’s largest daily newspaper – and several Granite State businesses that has allowed the paper’s publisher to report from Afghanistan is pushing the…
Who says you can’t sing about the Federal Reserve? Rick’s up to the challenge!
Hamilton Nolan has penned an excellent article on Gawker in response to the recent well-reported incident of a TV journalist who made unrevealed political donations. Nolan offers defining guidelines for journalistic ethics. A few of the points he covered are: Disclosure – Let your readers know where you’re coming from, so they can make informed judgments about…
Columnist Stu Bykofsky of the Philadelphia Daily News, despite being quite the extrovert, rarely finds himself a news subject. It’s because he’s first a journalist, although with his in-your-face style, that might seem surprising. This week, however, Bykofsky has landed in the cable yaks war, “yaks” being those chat-show hosts on the 24/7 news/comment channels,…
U.S. News &World Report reports that the December issue will be the last printed monthly for subscribers. They plan to transition to a predominantly digital publishing model. U.S. News claims to be a leading innovator in adapting to the changing environment in the newspaper world — and “we don’t intend to give up that lead.”…
Keith Olbermann, the liberal host of “Countdown” on MSNBC, was recently suspended indefinitely without pay for making political donations to three Democrats. The network policy prohibits such contributions. Most journalistic outfits discourage or outright prohibit campaign contributions by employees. According to MSNBC policy, “Anyone working for NBC News who takes part in civic or other…
Should U.S. government funds continue to help fund NPR, a non-profit radio service? An October 2010 Poll Position nationwide survey found that 45 percent of Americans favor continuing government funding for NPR while 39 percent called for a halt to funding. Partisan differences were found among those who favor the funding versus those who did…
Time Inc. is wrapping up a giant yearlong journalism project called “Assignment Detroit,” which opened with a lengthy essay on the city’s history and plight. Locals felt there were few in-depth stories in the project about Detroit’s efforts to revitalize the region. Detroit journalism educator and newspaper columnist Jack Lessenberry said it would have been…
The main offices of The Wall Street Journal and the New York headquarters of its parent company, News Corp., were cleared for bedbug treatment recently. The suspected bedbug outbreak was traced to a staff member of a subsidiary of News Corp. Although no actual bugs were found, bedbug-sniffing dogs indicated their probable presence. The Journal…
The Haiti News Project — has launched a penpal service between journalists in Haiti and the United States. The project is an effort by press associations and news organizations to provide equipment, support and training after the island’s devastating earthquake in January. The idea was originated by Haitian reporters working with Reuters correspondent Joseph Guy…
The majority of Americans (57%) say they have little or no trust in the mass media to report the news fully, accurately, and fairly according to the recent annual update on trust in the mass media by Gallup. This finding is consistant with the findings of the previous three years. Trust in the media is even…
Chicago Sun-Times journalist Kara Spak struck it big on the TV Game Show Jeopardy with winnings after six appearances totaling $85.401. On her sixth day, Spak lost after a meek Daily Double wager, and a few bad responses. Still her final earnings were not bad for a day of taping shows. Spak says she was nervous…
Do you find yourself spending a lot of time with your web-enabled smartphone? You are not alone. A study cited in an article by Brent Lang for TheWrap.com found that people spend more than half their day consuming media. Bruce Friend, president of Ipsos OTX MediaCT, the business that conducted the study of 7,000 online consumers,…
All the talk around NSNC today is the weird post Dave Astor put on Huffington Post about his NSNC job of scrapbooking. Well, scrapbooking itself is on the weird side considering we are in the computer age and it involves paper, glue, scissors and tape. But Dave is a weird guy and a good sport so…
Pulitzer Prize winning columnist, author and speaker Ellen Goodman will be at the University of Dayton on Wednesday, September 29th, to talk about the role of news media and opinion-journalism in productive public discourse. The talk is free and open to the public. Goodman has spent most of her life chronicling social change and its…
A new survey to answer the question, “What will the widespread adoption of the iPad mean for the journalism industry?” has been introduced by Digital Publishing and the Reynolds Journalism Institute. Sales of the Apple iPad are expected to exceed those of PC in 2011. In spite of the tremendous number of iPads sold, there…
Online viewing of newspaper video is up – 65% higher than in the same quarter last year according to a new research report “Online Video and Media Research”. The increase is attributed to audience interest in watching news about the Gulf oil spill. With a live feed supplied by BP, thousands of viewers tuned in…
