“It was a cool Tuesday in December 2005 and I almost got on board a C-130 plane, which was bound for a war-game zone on the northern coast of the Persian Gulf,” remembers 38-year-old Iranian …
Month: June 2008
Positive news and the television news audience
“Growing up in Vancouver, we always had two newspapers. When I moved to the [Sunshine] Coast I always had at least one and would watch probably the early news and the 11 o’clock news in …
Does ‘Caring’ Require Advocacy in Journalism?
by Elecia Chrunik Journalists expose the world to the spectrum of humanity’s achievements and atrocities. Meanwhile, they are discouraged from becoming directly entangled in the world that they report on so they do not affect …
Practicing compassion in an unbiased journalism
In the 1880s, Joseph Pulitzer hung a sign in the newsroom of his paper, the New York World, which read: “The World has no friends.” It is an historic example of journalistic independence, a value …
The Law and Confidential Sources: A Cautionary Tale
Confidential sources have been of enormous value to journalists and the public at large. The information they have brought to light has helped expose truths such as the corruption of a U.S. president, unethical business …
Protecting Sources in America
This article explores how the U.S. legal system protects journalists’ confidential sources and the threats that reporters face. In particular, this article highlights recent trends in judgments by the U.S federal court to limit the …
A Right to Protect? The confidential source controversy in journalism
The right of journalists to use and protect confidential sources is being hotly debated in Canadian newsrooms and courthouses. Many journalists say that confidential sources are an essential tool in the search to uncover information …