10 tabloid execs editors in libel case filed by Amalia Fuentes seek fresh probe
Amalia Fuentes. FILE PHOTO MANILA, Philippines--Ten tabloid officers and editors, who were sued for libel by veteran actress Amalia Fuentes in a Quezon City court, have sought a reinvestigation of the...
View ArticleWest Africa Editor Released On Bail Faces Criminal Charges
The Commune IV Magistrates Court in Mali on April 2, 2013, granted bail to Boukary Daou, managing editor of privately-owned Le Republican newspaper, who had been in prison since March 6, 2013 for...
View ArticleA Dutch crowdfunded news site has raised $1.3 million and hopes for a...
Rob Wijnberg thought his chances were 50/50. Getting 15,000 people to pledge EUR60 for a one-year susbscription to an news site that didn’t yet exist was never a given. On March 18, Wijnberg, former...
View ArticleThats Life magazine censured for paying murderers sister for her story
Press Complaints Commission for paying the sister of a murderer for her story.Louise Hodgson was paid an undisclosed amount by the magazine after her brother, Christopher Hodgson, ...
View ArticleNext FCC Chairman Will Impact Journalism
by: Tracie Powell | Columbia Journalism Review Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski announced last month that he was stepping down, and journalism advocates have since been...
View Article“Times Haiku” Turns Newspaper Stories Into Poetry
build a Haiku from any story in the newspaper. As a refresher, a Haiku is a form of three-lined Japanese poetry, which follows a 5-7-5 syllable structure. Some of the sharper Haikus might even do a...
View ArticleSri Lanka - Armed attack on Tamil newspapers distribution office in northern...
in the northern city of Kilinochchi, Reporters Without Borders and its partner organization, Journalists for Democracy in Sri Lanka (JDS), called on the authorities to do whatever is necessary to...
View ArticleKardashians Suing Stepmom For Selling Late Dads Diary To Tabloids
married and divorced all on their E! reality show, The Kardashians are pretty much an open book. But there's one book the public family wish to remain closed--their late father's diary. The Kardashians...
View ArticleLetter from the Editor It’s not easy speaking in measured tones about Philpott
Stimulating and thought-provoking, actually. I refer to the Philpott case, what else. While one newspaper was able to brand the killer of six children "the vile product of welfare UK" on its front ...
View ArticleEditors Forum Ghana to hold second media briefing
Accra, April 5, GNA - The Editors Forum, Ghana (EFG) is hosting its second media briefing by the Ghana Bar Association (GBA) on the theme: "The media and the law: Responsibilities and rights of ...
View ArticleThe Newsonomics of the Orange County Register’s Contrarian Paywall
As Opening Day comes to the Big A in Anaheim on Tuesday, you can now expect to hear that barker’s call in Orange County. In what is fast becoming one of the most-watched experiments in newspapering (to...
View ArticleThe UK Moves to Preserve its Digital History Paywalled Content Included
by: David Meyer | paidContent For the last century, the U.K. has had what is known as a legal deposit law requiring a copy of every book, pamphlet, magazine and newspaper to be sent to the British...
View ArticleBloomberg Adds Twitter Feeds to Financial Platform on Heels of New SEC Rules
by: Jeff John Roberts | Poynter Bloomberg LLC’s terminals, used by financial analysts and traders around the world, will now integrate Twitter feeds to help investors watch for market-moving...
View ArticleJournalism Orgs Launch Free ebook for Preventing Detecting and Handling...
by: Craig Silverman | Poynter By the end of last summer, I was worn out. It seemed like every week brought a new, awful incident of plagiarism or fabrication at news organizations large and small. My...
View ArticleFacebook Set to Attract Almost 30 of all Mobile Display Ads this Year
by: Gordon Macmillan | The Wall On the day that Facebook is expected to announce the Facebook phone, it is being predicted that almost 30% of all mobile display ads will go to the social network this...
View ArticleAd Creation Native Style
by: Will Price | MediaPost Native advertising is one of the industry's hot topics right now, so we have introduced this three-part series to delve into the phenomenon from the perspective of a...
View ArticleHow News Can Compete with Cat Videos 6 Lessons for Multimedia Journalists
by: Carrie Ching | Poynter Necessity is the mother of invention. That’s certainly been the case with the multimedia work I do. As senior multimedia producer at the Center for Investigative Reporting, I...
View ArticleAttacks on Knight Center Sites Reflect Digital Dangers
by: Frank Smyth | Committee to Protect Journalists The two websites at the University of Texas at Austin, at first blush, seemed to have been unlikely targets for attack. The Knight Center for...
View ArticleKelvin MacKenzie dropped from the Telegraph
Kelvin MacKenzie's first and only column for the Telegraph took aim at teaching, reality TV producers, banks and British Gas. Photograph: Paul ...
View ArticleInfluential US Film Critic Roger Ebert Dead at 70
LOS ANGELES Pulitzer-Prize winning film critic Roger Ebert died on Thursday, the Chicago Sun-Times said, two days after he said his cancer of 10 years ago had returned."It is with a heavy heart we...
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