Category: Media and Journalism

News just in…

Readers may remember this story from last month. Fisk had a quite a tantrum on Irish television. Blog-Irish has the link to the video that some of my readers were looking for . You can watch the video here (7Mb MPEG)- it has to be one of the funniest pieces of television so far this…

Dan Gillmor has pointed to two very interesting pieces that talk about issues raised on this blog last week. Jay Rosen and Jeff Jarvis discuss the ins and outs – it certainly brings together all the arguments put forward on this blog. Go read them. I wanted to articulate this myself, but Jay has done…

The Mirror is now in disarray, apparently having been successfully duped by a hoaxer. Morgan was summarily sacked and escorted from the building he had run for some time. Who was behind the hoax? Did Morgan orchestrate it, and got caught on the devil in the detail? Or was he duped? It will be interesting…

This sounds like a great idea – will this be a killer application of broadband? So many programmes to download, so little time.

Jeff Jarvis is live blogging a dinner that Don Rumsfeld is attending. We can only hope that he’s as tough on journalists’ bosses as he is on journalists.

Interesting news from the media world… Remember Jack Kelley, the reporter for USA Today who was fired after a scandal in which it was disclosed that he had fabricated many stories for the paper ? Last night, Karen Jurgenson, the top editor at USA Today and an employee of the paper since its inception in…

Mary Hodder with a view from BloggerCon in Boston posing some interesting questions on journalism and blogging. Quite a witty post. 🙂 Journalism and blogs are the karass and the granfalloon. They need each other, but can we please please please stop talking about either/or or and or but or if? As if? Really. I’ve…

Kevin Drum with an interesting memo sent to the staff of the Washington Times. Heavy stuff indeed. To: Everyone in the newsroom From: The Managing Editor Re: Corrections in the newspaper This newspaper has an obligation to its reader to run corrections when we make a mistake. We need to hold ourselves to the same…

Whoah that was pretty heated stuff on Agenda on TV3 tonight, I thought Fisk was either going to hit Cooney or walk off the set. The shouting was loud, the accusations were all over the place – some pretty libelous stuff seems to have been said.