Walking down the old port in Dubai, one still sees remnants of the former Emirates: a slice of the Arabian Gulf coast, a sleepy settlement of palm-fronted wind-towered houses, and Bedouin encampments – its few …
Journalism in the Entrepreneurial Age
Funding experiments are welcome and there’s nothing wrong with journalists looking for new ways to pay for reporting, writes Stephen J.A. Ward. But why assume funding from a foundation is any less fraught with potential conflicts than advertising from Zellers?
News 2.0: The Future of News in an Age of Social Media
The way news is collected and transmitted is undergoing fundamental change in an era of social media where the values of immediacy and speed dominate. Basen argues that a turning point has been reached. Newsgathering …
Turning dreams to shame: Susan Boyle’s Les Miz
But the tigers come at night With their voices soft as thunder As they tear your hope apart And they turn your dream to shame. – I Dreamed a Dream, Les Miserables The media have described …
Let the Public Help Guide Journalism Ethics
For too long, journalists have indulged in cant about how their standards meet the expectations of the public, and how they seek public input on ethical issues.
Even textbooks make the public an important player. The sub-title of the popular The Elements of Journalism by Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel is: What Newspeople Should Know and The Public Should Expect
Divisions impact coverage of mining project
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 …
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 …