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Story Archives of 'Journalism'
The Challenges Facing Iraqi Journalists
By Abdulla Mizea on Wednesday, March 10, 2010.
Since the U.S. invasion in 2003, Iraq has been a dangerous country for journalists. More than 200 reporters and media workers have been killed. Others face a new kind of threat.
For War News Radio, Abdulla Mizead spoke with Iraqi journalists about the new challenges and restrictions on freedom of the press, and how authorities are becoming more intimidating.
Lobbying In The Media
By Virginia Prescott on Thursday, February 18, 2010.
Turn on the TV news and you’ll likely see a rotating cast of talking heads discussing everything from health care reform, to the financial crisis, to car safety, to foreign policy. What you don’t often hear is the disclosure that some of those pundits have financial stakes in corporations that stand to benefit from their arguments. Take Former Democratic House Majority Leader Dick Gephardt. Back in September, he appeared on MSNBC’s “Morning Meeting,” where he labeled the public option "not essential."
Gephardt was introduced as "an observer through [the] process," meaning that he was a congressman in office during the Clinton health care effort in 1993. No mention was made of his work advising insurance and pharmaceutical interests through his lobbying firm Gephardt Government Affairs. This is just one example reporter Sebastian Jones uses to illustrate what he calls “the lobbying-media complex.”
The Nation: The Lobbying-Media Complex
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Talking Media With NPR's David Folkenflik
By Virginia Prescott on Wednesday, January 27, 2010.
Fluctuations in consumer habits and a wide variety of choices make for tough going in today’s news business. The rules are changing, even for media outlets with the resources to quickly move crews to Haiti, Iraq, or Yemen. Experienced publishers, broadcasters, editors and reporters no longer command the markets– or dollars - they once did. Opinion journalism, celebrity news and off-the-shelf bloggers are eating their lunch. That’s not a news flash, but it can be confusing for those who seek out quality, well-sourced journalism.
Tonight, National Public Radio’s media correspondent David Folkenflik joins a panel called The Changing Face of News – What’s Next? For the New Hampshire Institute of Politics at St Anselm’s college. And we’re pleased he could stop by the studio to help us sort through some of the pressing questions about the fickle nature of the news.
St. Anselm Event - January 27 at 7pm
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Leaving Journalism Behind
By Jen Nathan on Monday, January 11, 2010.Roberto Rocha has a good paying job at the Montreal Gazette, writing about all things tech. So why would he leave it behind to travel the world? Because he can. Check out this funny little video where he tells his boss and colleagues that he's leaving his job to globetrot for one year:
For The Love of Movies
By Virginia Prescott on Thursday, November 19, 2009.Film critics are in trouble. The century-old profession grew up alongside cinema, and the thoughtful reviews and theoretical writings from high-profile critics shaped how we understand the movies. But as journalism struggles financially and more reviewers are getting laid off or fired, critics wonder what’s to come of their profession.
That’s where film critic Gerald Peary stepped in. He’s been writing about film for over 25 years, and has been a weekly columnist and reviewer for The Boston Phoenix since 1996. He’s now stepped behind the camera for the first time to direct a film about his colleagues.
It’s called For The Love of Movies, and it looks at the past, present, and future of film criticism. It screens tonight at The Music Hall in Portsmouth. We're joined by the film’s producer, Amy Geller, and writer and director Gerald Peary.
Boston Phoenix: Gerald Peary: No Respect?
Los Angeles Times: Roger Ebert: Back to the future of film criticism
Huffington Post: David Sterritt: Do Film Critics Have a Future? Who Cares?
Life In Hell: How To Be a Clever Film Critic
The Future of New Hampshire's Newspapers
By Laura Knoy on Friday, November 13, 2009.Yesterday ten editors and publishers from Granite State papers met to discuss the challenges of keeping newspapers competitive and profitable in the age of web and social media. We'll talk with some of the panelists about what they learned and what the newspaper of tomorrow might look like.
Guests
- Mark Guerringue, publisher of the Daily Sun newspapers in Portland, Conway, Laconia and Berlin
- Susan Hertz, director of the University of New Hampshire's journalism program
We'll also hear from
- Geordie Wilson, publisher of the Concord Monitor
Grading Media Coverage of Health Care
By Virginia Prescott on Monday, November 2, 2009.
In September, former senate majority leader Tom Daschle spoke at The New School in New York City. He described a health care town hall meeting that was nothing like the shrill, hostile meetings then leading the news. “The next morning,” Daschle says, “I read the newspaper and I’d say 95% of the coverage in the paper was about the demonstrators and quotes that they had, either about me, or about health care that were completely off base. Nothing about the thoughtful, substantive discussion that occurred for an hour and a half in that hall.”
The headlines generated by gun-toting protesters, people decrying “socialized medicine” and “death panels” have faded, but the health care debate continues. This week, Democrats and Republicans in the House of Representatives are expected to vote on their versions of the health care reform bill, bills that are quite different from the Senate’s version.
If you find yourself getting lost in the process, you are not alone. Trudy Lieberman has been following health care and the media’s coverage of the issue for the Columbia Journalism Review. She also teaches health and medicine reporting at the City University of New York and joins us to grade the media coverage of the health care debate.
Columbia Journalism Review: Truth Emerges about the Public Option
L.A. Times: Media needs to deepen coverage of healthcare reform
Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism: Health News Coverage in the U.S. Media
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The Press and the Pot Smokers
By Donna Moxley on Tuesday, October 27, 2009.The recent protests against the state’s marijuana laws have died down. Several weeks ago, the pro-legalization group in Keene had about 120 people participating in its daily demonstrations on the city square. And the press, some from as far away as Boston, was there to document it.
Despite six protest-related arrests during the recent Pumpkin Festival, the daily count is back down to a few dozen demonstrators. The police - and the news media - have been staying away.
The Keene Sentinel’s Donna Moxley reports on how the media coverage helped fuel the movement.
Planet Money’s Alex Blumberg and Chana Joffe Walt
By Laura Knoy on Wednesday, October 7, 2009.The day after the US government announced it was taking over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, NPR.org launched a new podcast, Planet Money, as a way to present very complicated economic issues to the every-person, from real estate, the stock market, the job market, health care economics and more. As part of their visit to New Hampshire, they join us to talk about the state of the economy and about their work.
Guests
- Alex Blumberg, contributing editor for Planet Money and a producer for This American Life
- Chana Joffe-Wal, correspondent for Planet Money
Feeding The Beast
By Virginia Prescott on Wednesday, September 30, 2009.
If you watched any network news channel this month, you no doubt saw clips of James O’Keefe and his partner Hannah Giles walking into the Baltimore and Washington, DC offices of the non-profit ACORN organization. O’Keefe and Giles posed as a pimp and a prostitute looking for advice on how to evade taxes and funnel the money into O’Keefe’s fake congressional campaign.
The video quickly jumped from the blogosphere to run in heavy rotation on conservative media. Mainstream news networks soon followed in lock-step. Stories about Sonia Sotomayor, the birther movement, and town-hall disruptions followed a similar path and have trickled up throughout the Obama era.
So where are these stories coming from? Citizen journalists, activists, or covert partisan operatives? Mark Bowden is a longtime journalist and author, most recently, of The Best Game Ever. He wrote about how these clips become news for The Atlantic.
The Atlantic: The Story Behind the Story
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