Salcito argues that national divisions are causing Malawian journalists to under-represent locals in their coverage of a major mining project in the less developed north. Last month production began in Malawi’s first ever foreign-developed mining …
Year: 2009
A New Journalist’s Creed
At a recent conference on the future of ethical journalism, several journalists argued that the current media revolution does not entail a revolution in ethics.
Reflections of a Legacy Journalist
Lee Wilkins, University of Missouri, offers her candid thoughts — and worries — as she attended The Future of Ethical Journalism. It is almost impossible to attend a gathering of journalists — either of the …
Ethics Essential to Democratic Journalism
The future of journalism must include ethics, or journalism won’t serve democracy. That was a recurring theme among journalists, media scholars, and ethicists at “The Future of Ethical Journalism,” the first annual ethics conference of …
Venezuela’s Socialist Revolution: At the Expense of a Free & Independent Press?
Shakuntala Rao is Professor of Communication at State University of New York, Plattsburgh, USA. She was a visiting lecturer at Universidad Central de Venezuela in Caracas and at La Universidad del Zulia in Maracaibo in …
The “Torturous” Struggle to State a Fact
Critics have long accused objective reporters of hiding behind facts to avoid taking a stand on crucial issues.
How little these people know about the courage it takes for journalists to be objective. How little they know about what it takes to stand behind a commitment to telling the truth, and to stating a fact as a fact.
Is It Time to Close Journalism Schools?
Should we close journalism schools?
How can we save journalism?
Canadian journalist Alan Bass argues that journalists who worry about the future of newspapers are asking the wrong question. Rather than ask, ‘How can we save newspapers?’ we should ask, ‘How can we save journalism?’ …
Jumping into the ‘swirling maze’: How investigative journalism is being reborn
Surviving the Media Carnage Newspapers closing. Journalists let go. Old economic models to support journalism are imploding amid a media revolution. Two veteran journalists — an American and a Canadian — view the carnage and …
Is “Layered Journalism” the Future?
Newspapers in peril, journalists laid off, ethical standards challenged, and the economic basis of mainstream journalism collapsing.
This is no time for critics of “mainstream media” to be triumphal.