The Media Drop

I’m not sure I could be more aghast at the fact that a Chinese journalist would be attacked in his own home, have two of his fingers chopped off, all most likely because of his work.

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The Associated Press reports that efforts to create a shield law for journalists in Texas has “fizzled.”

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Portland, Maine’s WCSH channel 6 updates the story about the University of New Hampshire student who had been relieved of his role at the school’s student paper after his weblogged threats towards fellow student journalist Whitney Williams were made public. They report that Kenneth Gagnon has now been removed from his English class after making […]

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Editor & Publisher has details on a recent panel at the American Society of Newspaper Editors convention that discussed unethical behavior by newspaper writers and columnists, including that of the Detroit Free Press‘ Mitch Albom, who was “caught” writing about something that hadn’t happened yet - and ultimately didn’t - in a recent item about […]

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According to an AP story, Phillipine columnist Marlene Garcia Esperat was shot and killed at her home on Thursday, making her the second journalist in that country to be killed this year, and the 15th in two years.

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Over at MediaCitizen, Tim Karr wrote yesterday about a complaint filed with the FCC about the recent fun and excitement surrounding the use of video news releases, or VNRs. Additionally, anyone concerned about their use can sign their petition that asks for the end of VNR use.

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In the last week, you may have read about some allegations of censorship at New Jersey-based Rutgers University and the campus newspaper, the Daily Targum. As the game of telephone trudged on after the first few news items popped up this story, it slid down the slope from “A Rutgers University journalism class made […]

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Ithaca College’s Ithacan has an article Thursday by Elizabeth Quill about some issues at a local high school newspaper. Ithaca High’s Tattler had a little bit of an problem recently when the school’s administration stepped in and edited, via the adviser, a cartoon that was attached to an article.
“The district says the […]

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On Tuesday, the World Association of Newspapers issued a letter to the President of Yemen in response to the charges and subsequent jailing of a Yemeni journalist, Abdulkareem Al-Khaiwani. Al-Khaiwani has been held because of critical comments against the country’s government - and is only one of a few journalists who have had similar […]

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Towards the bottom of this column by the Village Voice’s Jarrett Murphy is some skinny on The Week, which sounds a lot to me like a magazine that does what blogs manage to do for readers - do all the filtering so that the blog’s readers don’t have to spend a ton of time doing […]

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