Lone Wolf: blogger and anarchist Josh Wolf isn't a
traditional reporter, but he's been in jail on contempt of court
charges long
Liz Wolf-Spada, the mother of blogger, freelance videographer,
anarchist and activist Josh Wolf, has spent her son's long months
in federal prison getting a crash course on the grand jury process . . .
Bold new leaders?(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)(Brief
article)
Who would have thought that AJR (Rem Rieder, Full Court Press, and
John Morton, The Newspaper Business, February/March) would one day wax
nostalgic for Tony Ridder? All these newspaper chain CEOs, . . .
A passionate affair with newspaper reporting.(Front-Page
Girl)(Book review)
Front-Page Girl
By Doris O'Donnell
The Kent State University Press
259 pages; $22.95
In times of tribulation, nothing beats a good jolt of joy. For
beleaguered journalists losing touch with . . .
Life after journalism: two San Jose Mercury News staffers who
took buyouts in late 2005 stayed in close touch with eight of thei
It didn't take veteran copy editor Jim Braly long to get on
with the job of reinventing himself.
Just two months after taking a voluntary buyout from the San Jose
Mercury News, Braly was hanging . . .
Just can't win.(DROP CAP)(Larry Sabato on
reporters)(Quotation)(Brief article)
"If they call and you don't return the call, they get
mad. If you return the call, they accuse you of cozying up to the
press."
--the hideously overquoted Larry Sabato on the subject . . .
Uncovering misery at Walter Reed.(DROP CAP)(Interview)
In a two-part series in February, Washington Post reporters Dana
Priest and Anne Hull wrote about what they called "The Other Walter
Reed"--a tale of the dilapidated living conditions and . . .
Assailed by the Times-Dispatch.(LETTERS)(Letter to the
editor)
As the author of the Style Weekly piece described in AJR's
article about the Richmond Times-Dispatch (February/March), I read
"Culture Clash" with interest. It was very well done by Lori
Robertson, . . .
What we're missing: it's a shame two new cable news
channels are so hard to find in the U.S.(BROADCAST VIEWS)(Al Jazeera
English
What if they launched a news channel and nobody here could watch?
Would anyone care to know what they're missing?
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The latest entries in the global TV news game, Al . . .
Iron curtain redux: the assassination of a prominent
investigative reporter underscores the increasingly repressive climate
for
When the editor answers her cell phone, she assumes that government
spooks may be monitoring the conversation. She never ventures out alone
after dark for fear of shadowy figures that make a career . . .
Challenging times.(New York Times Co. hopes for better
times)
Protected by family ownership, the New York Times Co. plots its
future without retreating from ambitious journalism at its flagship
paper, despite the wailing on Wall Street about the . . .
Slow to react: should the New York Times have jumped on the
Walter Reed story much more quickly?(DROP CAP)
When stories that revealed shocking problems at Walter Reed Army
Medical Center first started appearing in the Washington Post in
February, it didn't take long for the reaction--anger, . . .
Looking outward.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
Just wanted to tell you that Deborah Potter's Broadcast Views
essay in the current AJR (February/March) is really on the money! I
continue to travel a fair amount--mostly in Europe--and I am . . .
Money talks: McClatchy's disappointing decision to unload
the Star Tribune.(THE NEWSPAPER BUSINESS)
It could be said of McClatchy after the unceremonious dumping of
Minneapolis' Star Tribune that the bloom is off the rose. Of
course, there was a foretaste of this with McClatchy's earlier
decision . . .
A treasured source.(APPRECIATION)(Gerald R. Ford)(Personal
account)
Congressman Gerald Rudolph Ford slowly raised his head and looked
into my face. I returned the gaze and saw red surrounding his blue eyes.
Ford had been crying. We met on the driveway in front of . . .
Culture clash: an aggressive management team with a top-down
approach and a penchant for reader-friendly journalism has shaken t
In November, a year after Glenn Proctor took the helm of the
Richmond Times-Dispatch as vice president and executive editor, he
didn't so much appear the part of a Marine--bright fuchsia tie;
gold . . .
Bye-bye byline.(DROP CAP)(bylines on wire stories)
For reporters, long hours of work and dogged locating of sources
are justified by one reward: the byline. But wire reporters frequently
are denied the pleasure of seeing their names in print. On . . .
Counting the spoons: eternal vigilance is the price of covering
national security and political campaigns.(FULL COURT
PRESS)(Edi
It was the noted philosopher John Mitchell who put it best:
"You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we
say."
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This was in happier times, before the . . .
Eighty-two and counting: the continuing excellence of The New
Yorker.(ABOVE THE FOLD)(Periodical review)
I'll tell you right off that this veers into Too Much
Information, but I'm a soaker. I love a long, hot,
prune-skin-inducing bath, and I'm fortunate to have a deep tub that
lends itself to such . . .
Pay per view: for these bloggers, a larger audience means a
fatter paycheck.(THE ONLINE FRONTIER)
News managers everywhere are pushing, begging and ordering their
journalists to contribute to the Web. Now a business magazine has
decided to pay its reporters to blog. More accurately, it is . . .
Is Keith Olbermann the future of journalism? The MSNBC
anchor's unorthodox amalgam of the serious and the silly and his
trenchan
Often, in any creative endeavor, timing is the difference between
genius and an unsold canvas, a rejected manuscript, an expired contract.
Back in June 2003, not long after MSNBC, the little . . .
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