Cameras have been banned from an Orange County courtroom after the district attorney’s office was denied access to the live pool feed, according to VoiceofOC.org, a non-profit investigative news agency. “Susan Schroeder, chief of staff for …
A helpful primer on Government Surveillance and the Press from NYT Public Editor
Margaret Sullivan, the public editor for The New York Times, recently published a column offering four pieces that may help add texture and context to the continuing discussion about press rights and government surveillance. Alan …
Will Ferrell brings his Ron Burgundy character to a Bismarck ND TV news broadcast. Is this news, promotion, advertising, comedy, or some combination of each?
Viewers of last Saturday evening’s broadcast of KX-News in Bismarck ND were likely surprised to see Ron Burgundy serving as co-anchor. Will Ferrell’s Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy character has been popping up in …
Maybe 60 Minutes can learn a few things from lesser news magazines…
Brendan Nyhan, writing for the Columbia Journalism Review, suggests that the folks at 60 Minutes would do well by following the lead of “its downscale cousin Inside Edition” when that broadcast news magazine aired what turned out to …
News Organizations push back on White House photo restrictions
Thirty eight news organizations signed a letter to White House press secretary Jay Carney protesting a strict policy that greatly limits news photographers’ access to President Obama. As reported by the Los Angeles Times, …
Journalism Educators Call for CBS News to Correct their Correction of the 60 Minutes Benghazi Story
Amidst the corrections, critiques and internal investigations, the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) called upon CBS News to rethink the way the network is handling key aspects of the correction. AEJMC …
First Do No Harm: Physician-Journalists and ethical reporting
It is increasingly common for news organizations to employ physicians as journalist who report on health and medical issues. Gary Schwitzer wonders who is responsible for training these physician-journalists in media ethics. Schwitzer is the …
Would Welles War of the Worlds radio program play in the age of Social Media?
When the Columbia Broadcasting System broadcast The Mercury Radio Theater’s version of H.G. Wells’ “War of the Worlds,” Orson Welles managed to convince a portion of his audience that Martians were attacking Earth. Media reports …
Wisconsin legislators’ budget maneuver also strikes against Ethics Center’s core mission
On June 5, the Wisconsin Legislature’s Joint Finance Committee added a provision to the proposed state budget that would require the independent, non-profit Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism to leave its home in the School …
Leaking classified information: No simple answers for journalists
Disclosure of massive surveillance program puts press freedom at odds with government wishes — again