By Mindy McAdams
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Although Malaysia is a small country (about 26.6 million people, or less than 10 percent the population of the U.S.), its press and broadcast policies are worthy of study. Take the recent government edict issued to a dozen mainstream newspapers and five television stations telling them to ignore any and all online information that might [...]
In Your Right to Know, two newsroom researchers from The Charlotte (N.C.) Observer are blogging about what citizens are entitled to find out about and how to do it. The blog is part of the newspaper’s week-long celebration of Sunshine Week — they’ve got a really excellent collection of stories and information about open records [...]
This is not breaking news, but I’ll bet most Westerners haven’t heard about it.
John Dvorak asks: “What kind of newspapers do they have in Malaysia that they would sue somebody for speaking their mind — when it’s their job to expose people’s opinions?”
Indeed, indeed!
And let’s not be too smug. Do you think this could never [...]
This has been much covered already (see the Daily Koz, for example), but for the record, here is the News.com report from May 26.
The appeals court pointedly took issue with Apple’s argument that the Web sites were not legitimate journalistic enterprises. Apple had claimed that the sites were engaged not in “legitimate journalism or news” [...]
At all levels of the U.S. education system, champions of free speech and press have sometimes come to conflict with school administrators. The latest example of this: At Hampton University’s Scripps Howard School of Journalism and Mass Communications, longtime Time magazine correspondent and editor Jack White quit teaching because “the atmosphere in Hampton is in [...]
There’s a new case study for how blogs work — particularly how the blogosphere support network can raise one blog’s visibility.
A man in Maine, at the far northeastern corner of the U.S., writes a blog called Maine Web Report. His name is Lance Dutson. The blog was not at all well-known before this series of [...]
Here’s putting it all into perspective:
What the hell is the point of having this means of communication if we are not going to write about what people need to know? We can write about dating when we have our freedom back.
From Nepalese blogger Dinesh Wagle (in AsiaMedia, April 17, 2006).
Elsewhere, Bill Doskoch wrote:
Journalism isn’t just [...]
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