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Journalism is the fact-based reporting of events in the public media. Whether through newspapers, radio, television, film, or the blogosphere, journalists craft the news and provide the masses with information and fodder for opinion.

Historically, investigative and political journalism have been crucial and sometimes dangerous occupations. Journalists have been censored, threatened, jailed and assassinated for their reporting. Yet, intrepid individuals such as Seymour Hersh, Robert Fisk, Amira Hass, Dele Olojede and many others continue to put themselves in risky or uncomfortable situations to make sure that important events are made public.

With the advent of the online age came an increase in both citizen and independent journalism: the ease and effectiveness of publishing online meant that more voices were able to make themselves heard. However, this also led to a decrease in journalistic ethics and standards: reporting became highly opinionated, and punditry came to be considered the norm.

Nonetheless, there are countless brave, dedicated, and ethical journalists currently publishing online, and many websites devoted to independent, international and forthright journalism. Readers of online news are now presented with thousands of information sources, giving them the opportunity to do their own research and find the truth—or any permutation thereof—of their own volition.

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  • Mixed results in news coverage of Texas docs hopes to screen all US sixth-graders hearts


    Schwitzer health news blog — Authority Authority: 499
    See our review of stories by ABC, CNN, CBS and Houston Chronicle: http://www.healthnewsreview.org/blog/2009/12/failure-to-scrutinize-claims-about-screening-all-us-sixth-graders-hearts.html Whats up with all of the aggressive heart screening programs in Texas? (For example, see this past blog entry: ...
    19 hours ago

  • Web Worker Careers: The New Newsroom


    WebWorkerDaily — Authority Authority: 677
    Almost every day over the past year there’s a new apocalyptic story about the demise of newspapers and print journalism. In recent weeks, the subject has reached a crescendo with the strategic power plays between Rupert Murdoch, Google and Microsoft’s Bing. However, there’s some light at the end of the ...
    19 hours ago

  • Bad advice about TV health news "teases"


    Schwitzer health news blog — Authority Authority: 499
    http://www.healthnewsreview.org/blog/2009/12/the-devil-is-in-the-details---and-in-tv-health-news-teases.html...
    20 hours ago

  • Burn after reading


    Ask MetaFilter — Authority Authority: 632
    What are some of the best articles or stories you have read about Burning Man? I went to Burning Man this year and am doing a presentation about it soon. Im worried about not being able to communicate what Burning Man is. The event is engineered to make you feel awesome for a week, so naturally one leaves with a very ...
    21 hours ago

  • “Bah Humbug” on charities!


    GetReligion — Authority Authority: 134
    December is crunch time for charitable giving, with many nonprofit organizations taking in a third or more of their yearly income during the last month of the year. Perhaps that’s why Sunday’s New York Times featured not one but two A1 stories on charities? “Aid Gives Alternative to African Orphanages” by ...
    21 hours ago

  • Govt will need to help shape U.S. media: Waxman | Reuters


    The Information Paradox — Authority Authority: 446
    Govt will need to help shape U.S. media: Waxman | Reuters: House Energy and Commerce Committee...
    22 hours ago

  • Apparently, Nobody Loves FoxNews


    Grand Rants — Authority Authority: 497
      Except the viewers, that is. Politico reported yesterday that National Public Radio, that bastion of open-mindedness, put pressure on their political correspondent Mara Liasson to discontinue her regular appearances as a FoxNews contributor, due to “concerns that Fox’s programming had grown more ...
    22 hours ago

  • More on Texas Arson Cases From Dave Mann


    The StandDown Texas Project — Authority Authority: 511
    The Texas Observer journalist writes, " Fire and Innocence ," for the November 27th issue.  Its an extensive article and a must-read.  Heres the beginning: Gerald Hurst is one of the nation’s foremostauthorities on fire and explosives. At age 72, he’s tall and lean, withgraying hair combed back on his head and ...
    23 hours ago

  • Distorting David From weighs in on ClimateGATE/Swifthack


    Get Energy Smart! NOW!!! — Authority Authority: 597
    Linked from CNN.com’s home page, David From weighs in with a disingenuous discussion of ClimateGATE (SwiftHack) with The Distorted Global Warming Debate that is a combination of truthful insight and distorting truthiness.From’s argument that the United States (and, well, likely elsewhere) is descending into ...
    23 hours ago

  • Morning reading: Furlough Friday discount; CalPERS; pensions


    The State Worker — Authority Authority: 433
    Some of our "Recommended Links" on the right side of this page, including stories you may have missed over the weekend: Squaw Valley USA is cutting lift ticket prices for state workers on "Furlough Fridays" starting this week. (Check the companys Web site for more infor by clicking here .) ... Bee colleague ...
    23 hours ago

  • The war on FOXNews continues


    Sanity Injection — Authority Authority: 117
    The latest dispatch from the propaganda war against FOX News: NPR (that bastion of impartial objectivity) has tried to pressure two of its contributors - Mara Liasson and Juan Williams – to stop appearing on FOX News because of its alleged right-wing bias. The part that made me snort in disbelief was reading that ...
    23 hours ago

  • Onion News: Historic ‘Blockbuster’ Store Offers Glimpse Of How Movies Were Rented In The Past


    Communications & Legal Studies — Authority Authority: 135
    Students of US Mass Media History will appreciate this! Cathy more about “ Onion News: Historic ‘Blockbuster’ St… “, posted with vodpod Posted in Culture and Communications, Journalism, Public Relations, Radio, Television
    23 hours ago

  • Will Blogging Explode in 2010?


    HighTalk — Authority Authority: 115
    This might seem like a silly question given that Technorati says there have been more than 140 million blogs created in the last 10 years.  Now most of these are now defunct, but there are still more than 1.5 million blogs that post at least once a week.So granted – blogging has already exploded.But blogging [...]
    23 hours ago

  • Abunimah is a prophet without honor in his parents’ land


    Mondoweiss — Authority Authority: 147
    Pulse has posted an interview with Ali Abunimah that was conducted by a reporter for Haaretz, Rehaviya Berman, several weeks ago. Haaretz did not run the interview, and Berman then published it on his blog (once again demonstrating the importance of the internet in degrading consensus-building media). It’s a great ...
    23 hours ago

  • New Jersey: Just Say “Yes” To Gay Marriage, and “No” To George Berkin


    The New Civil Rights Movement — Authority Authority: 134
    An Open Letter To The Editor Of NJ.com To The Editor: Late Saturday night I came across an “editorial” by George Berkin, titled, “ Say no to gay marriage .” I confess, my outrage was palpable, and, reading his one thousand four hundred ninety-one words of ignorance, bigotry, illogic, and just plain, ...
    23 hours ago

  • Government Offers Data to Miners – NYTimes.com


    D@J — Authority Authority: 130
    Eric Gundersen, DC drupal rockstar and prez of devseed gets some NYT ink in this piece. Government Offers Data to Miners – NYTimes.com .
    23 hours ago

  • Roubini Global Economics


    One Day, One Job — Authority Authority: 129
    Remember that time that you predicted the walk off home run during the baseball game or the fact that your friend would get back together with his girlfriend for the 7th time? Of course you do. It was proof of your psychic abilities. Remember the time that you made a similar prediction but were wrong? Of course not. ...
    23 hours ago

  • media cheerleaders


    Shmohawk's Weblog — Authority Authority: 110
    Interesting conversations on Montreal radio this morning. It even became the “question-of-the-morning” on CBC Radio between the host and the regular gaggle of journalists who do sports, traffic and entertainment, business reports. They debate among themselves some issue that they think people will jump on, react ...
    1 day ago

  • Climate Change: Fighting Hunger


    BlogHer - Health & Wellness — Authority Authority: 145
    We live in a changing world. We live in an uncertain world. We live in a HUNGRY world. Helping people help themselves. Turning Hunger into Hope. Because the future is now. To find out more: http://www.wfp.org/climate-change   Every 6 seconds a child dies... if youre reading this you can help (dont look ...
    1 day ago

  • Should the Chinese Wall Between Editorial and Advertorial Be Torn Down? — Seeking Alpha


    D@J — Authority Authority: 130
    Good writeup at Seeking Alpha by Mathew Ingram on the recent restructuring at Belo’s paper in Dallas. I’ve been in groups that have talked and pitched models at news publishers to create a “content mall” philosophy where authors are vendors/rentors and the publisher is a service platform and landlord. ...
    1 day ago

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