Report urges broad actions to preserve journalism

Journalism is at risk and American society must act to preserve it, according to a report co-authored by The Washington Post's former executive editor.

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Financial crisis coverage dominates Loeb Awards

McClatchy & Co., one of the companies hardest hit by the crisis in the newspaper industry, was honored for its coverage of the economic meltdown.

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U. of Missouri hopes to teach some iJournalism

Gadgets such as the Apple iPhone and the iPod Touch are mainstays on college campuses — largely for the devices' ability to help students escape the pressures of the classroom.

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Boston Globe, others win Web journalism awards

The Boston Globe, a newspaper that has faced the threat of closure, was among the news outlets that took home multiple awards in this year's EPpy Awards, a competition for the best Web sites in the media business.

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News media chiefs: Finding new revenue a challenge

Uncertainty about revenue and the form in which news and information will be delivered present key challenges for 21st century news media, according to a panel of industry leaders.

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Things are bleak in journalism

The state of journalism is bleak, but an annual study of the industry suggests all hope should not be lost.

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High school journos take all-platform plunge

Josiah Jones is the editor-in-chief of an award-winning magazine, guiding a staff of 90 that also produces podcasts and a Web site.

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Media foundation honors 4 journalists, 2 from AP

Four newswomen from Afghanistan, Myanmar, Cyprus and the United States were honored by an international journalism group for their work in difficult and dangerous situations that sometimes include risking their lives to tell a story.

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Evangelicals are in the news, but not in newsrooms

Here is a foolproof way for politicians to score points with evangelical voters: Attack the media, an institution widely seen as lacking conservative Christian voices.

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Media coverage of the economy lags, study finds

Media coverage of the economic downturn in the U.S. has lagged behind both economic activity and public interest, according to a study being released Monday by a Washington, D.C.-based research group.

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Training helps bloggers hone professionalism

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 ago.

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AP's Deb Riechmann, CNN's Ed Henry win journalism awards

Deb Riechmann of The Associated Press and Ed Henry of CNN have won the Merriman Smith Award for presidential coverage under deadline pressure.

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USC Names Director for Journalism School

The University of Southern California says Pulitzer-winning journalist Geneva Overholser will become the next director of the School of Journalism at the Annenberg School for Communication.

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Web Has Unexpected Effect on Journalism

The Internet has profoundly changed journalism, but not necessarily in ways that were predicted even a few years ago, a study on the industry released Sunday found.

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Northwestern Clears Journalism Dean

The dean of Northwestern University's prestigious Medill School of Journalism was cleared Friday by the provost of making up quotes from unidentified students for use in the alumni magazine.

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Northwestern Reviews Quotes Used by Dean

Northwestern University said it is reviewing the use of unnamed sources and "the veracity of quotations" in writings by the dean of its prestigious Medill School of Journalism.

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Iraqi Kurd Media Bill Draws Protest

Lawmakers in Iraq's self-ruled Kurdish region approved a measure that would allow courts to accuse journalists of "vague offenses" relating to terrorism or disturbing security, drawing protests Friday from Kurdish journalists and an international media advocate.

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Imprisoned China Journalist Wins Prize

Imprisoned Chinese journalist Li Changqing has been awarded the World Association of Newspapers' annual press freedom prize, the Paris-based organization said Tuesday.

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Female Journalists to Be Awarded

She set out to expose a pedophile ring in Cancun, naming the rich and powerful she says were involved, and became a journalism sensation after she was abducted by police, allegedly at the behest of a state governor.

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Philanthropies Back Journalism Venture

A new venture backed by philanthropies will start publishing investigative journalism articles beginning next year, looking to fill a gap being left as newspapers cut costs amid weak advertising.

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Zimbabwe President Denies Ouster Near

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe dismissed claims Friday that his rule was in its final throes while a longtime opponent renewed calls for a peaceful campaign to oust him.

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Journalists Acquitted in Iraq WMD Case

Three Danish journalists who published classified intelligence reports on Iraq's former weapons program were acquitted Monday on charges of endangering national security.

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Norway Reporter Admits Faking Interviews

A Norwegian journalist has admitted he fabricated interviews with Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and talk show host Oprah Winfrey, media reports said Monday.

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Journalists Decry Pressure Over Sources

Journalism groups on Saturday decried the jailing of a video journalist and other recent court rulings pressuring media workers to divulge information to the government.

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CNN.com Creates User Submissions Section

With camera phones and other gadgets a greater part of everyday life, CNN wants to make it easier for viewers to submit images they happen to capture as they witness news in the making.

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Rupert Murdoch says he will remove stories from Google's search index as a way to encourage people to pay for content online.

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This seems to mean MSNBC.com along with Newsvine may be moving closer to a move.

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A British man on the run from police sent a picture of himself to his local paper because he disliked the mug shot they had printed of him as part of a public appeal to track him down.

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Thoroughness. Accuracy. Fairness. Independence. Transparency.

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Domke did a study with old and young news consumers.

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A journalist for Agence France Presse has been detained by Iranian security forces, the news agency has said.

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When people talk about the long tail, they often focus on consumer goods, where the infinite shelf space at a company like Amazon or Netflix allows a huge variety of products to be sold.

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The winner of this year's Sydney Peace Prize, John Pilger, has labelled the Federal Government's asylum-seeker policy "illegal and immoral".

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A new documentary film by a white journalist posing as a Somali immigrant is meant to highlight rampant racism in Germany, but his undercover method is garnering heavy criticism from black advocacy groups.

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World's Greatest Reporters Create News

You can find news anywhere. North, East, West and South, news is available just about anywhere, anytime. The real trick is to report what that news means in a way that is relevant to the many.

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Many of our journalists desire to exercise their 1st Amendment rights by gathering information about what happens in school board meetings, community events, county commission meetings or in the state legislature.

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David Brooks today says he wanted to write a column about Obama's pending decision over Afghanistan, and in order to write this column, this is what he tells us he did: "For the past few days I have tried to do what journalists are supposed to do." Sounds intrepid.

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[Manila, Philippines]A conference among lawyers and journalists from several Asian countries including the Philippines is concluding in Cebu.

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Rahm Emanuel once sent a dead fish to a live pollster. Now he's put a horse's head in Roger Ailes' bed. Not very subtle. And not very smart. Ailes doesn't scare easily.

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Andrew Maynard comments on how sometimes a press release on a recent research finding will make unrealistic speculations, perhaps just to sell the story. Is he right? Sort of. It's a cycle.

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Could pave way for a vote on the bill in the Senate Judiciary Committee

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Saved and Created jobs is a new low for American journalism

So how do you measure a "saved" job? Suppose I give one million dollars to a city mayor, and then ask him how many jobs he "saved" with the money.

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In a widely reported controversy, Illinois prosecutors responded to a Protess-led, university-based journalistic investigation of a 31-year-old murder conviction with subpoenas seeking "virtually every conceivable record" relating to the school's newsgathering activities, i …

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Journalism has a special, hallowed place for stories of its practitioners' persecution. There is no higher claim to journalistic integrity than going to jail to protect a source.

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Great column by currently scotlands 2nd best widely read press columnist.

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Why the Beltway press has invested so much time and energy in recent weeks defending Fox News, with one scribe even claiming that the White House's public critique of the network was "dangerous to press freedom," and why the press refuses to acknowledge what's so obvious about th …

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To work in bogong moth season in Parliament House is to be surrounded by death, corpses and confused survivors huddled in clumps in corners.

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Fox News has changed the rules in 2009. Now the press needs to change the way it covers Fox News. Rupert Murdoch's cable cabal is now, first and foremost, a political entity.

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"The news you report is against the jihad and you are not nationalists willing to defend your people and your country," Sheikh Mohamed told reporters....

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