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Accredition of journalists violates press freedom, says Philippine union
2015-01-21
International Federation of Journalists (IFJ)
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) in strongly criticizing the provision in House Bill 362, which seeks to amend Republ...
African Journalists leaders summit outlines strategies to roll back impunity and defend journalists' rights
2009-06-30
Federation of African Journalists (FAJ)
Leaders of the Federation of African Journalists have condemned at their biannual meeting in Djibouti on June 23rd, the unsafe and precarious working conditions of journalists in Africa.
Appeal for donations for Iranian journalists who have fled abroad
2009-11-06
Reporters without Borders
Reporters Without Borders is launching an appeal for financial support for Iranian journalists and bloggers, who find themselves utterly destitute as they search for a safe refuge.
As holder of EU presidency, Czech government urged to intercede on behalf of jailed bloggers and journalists
2009-01-07
Reporters without Borders
Reporters Without Borders secretary-general Jean-FranA#ois Julliard wrote yesterday to Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek asking him to do everything possible to obtain the release of the 11 journa...
As Oda TV trial drags on, one journalist freed, four others begin 16th month in detention
2012-06-22
Reporters without Borders
Reporters Without Borders is outraged that only one of the five Oda TV journalists still in detention in Turkey has been released.
Bangladeshi journalist detained for reporting on dead goat
2017-08-03
International Federation of Journalists
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the Bangladesh Manobodhikari Sambadhik Forum (BMSF) condemns the detention of a journalist for posting allegedly derogatory comments about a minis...
A climate of fear endangers press freedom
2009-02-14
Committee to Protect Journalists
Today, the greatest threats to freedom of the press are more insidious than a generation ago because they are intended to induce a climate of fear and self-censorship through systematic violence and e...
CPJ award goes to jailed Sri Lankan journalist
2009-09-03
Committee to Protect Journalists
The Committee to Protect Journalists announced today that it will honor imprisoned Sri Lankan journalist J.S. Tissainayagam with a 2009 International Press Freedom Award.
Deadliest year for journalists since Reporters Without Borders began producing its annual roundup in 1995
2012-12-20
Reporters without Borders
This year has been exceptionally deadly, with a 33 per cent rise in the number of journalists killed in connection with their work over 2011. The worst-hit regions were the Middle East and Northern Af...
Ethics and Gender: Equality in the newsroom, Brussels Declaration
2009-06-02
International Federation of Journalists
Brussels Declaraton on Ethics and Gender: Equality in the newsroom.
Extradition request for dissident journalist is "illegal and absurd"
2011-04-14
Reporters without Borders
Reporters Without Borders today denounced as “illegal and absurd” the efforts of the Tajik government to get dissident journalist Dodojon Atovulloev forcefully returned to Tajikistan from his exile in...
FAJ Condemns the Arrest and Intimidation of Three Journalists in Zimbabwe
2015-11-08
International Federation of Journalists
The Federation of African Journalists (FAJ), the Africa Group of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has condemned the arrest of three journalists from The Sunday Mail in Harare, Zimbabw...
France: EFJ Concerned by Threats against Journalists after TV Report on Palestine
2011-10-14
International Federation of Journalists
The European Federation of Journalists expresses its support to journalists and unions at France 2 following threats made against the public channel's presenters over a television programme on the po...
French journalists released after being held hostage for 18 months
2011-06-29
Reporters without Borders
Reporters Without Borders is delighted by today’s release of French journalists Hervé Ghesquière and Stéphane Taponier and their Afghan interpreter Reza, who were abducted by a Taliban group on 29 Dec...
The Harper Years: Tough Times For Reporters In Canada
2015-10-17
Reporters Without Borders
As federal elections will be held in Canada on October 19, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) reviews the evolution of freedom of the press and information during Prime Minister Stephen Harper's tenure. ...
How can you protect yourself from online snooping?
2013-06-13
Reporters without Borders
Reporters Without Borders has published an Online Survival Kit on its WefightCensorship.org website that has tools and practical advice that will allow you to protect your communications and data.
How far will Media Council go to eliminate Klubradio?
2012-07-06
Reporters without Borders
Reporters Without Borders is dismayed to learn that Hungary's Media Council (NMHH) has rejected opposition radio station Klubradio's bid to keep its Budapest commercial radio frequency.
IFEX members call for protection for women journalists and activists to mark day against violence
2009-11-25
IFEX
40 IFEX members are marking the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women today, 25 November, with a joint call for action.
The IFJ and Al Jazeera sign historical international framework agreement
2015-12-15
International Federation of Journalists
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) hailed the signing yesterday in Geneva of an historical International Framework Agreement with Al Jazeera Media Network - the first of its kind in the...
IFJ and EFJ Condemn Azerbaijan Call for 'Public Hatred' towards Independent Media
2012-06-14
International Federation of Journalists
Condemning the call by the Azeri government for a show of ‘public hatred' against independent media.
IFJ and EFJ launch a conference to tackle press freedom and labour rights in Turkey
2015-09-17
International Federation of Journalists
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ), the Journalists Union of Turkey (TGS) and the Journalists Association of Turkey (TGC) jointly host the ...
IFJ and EFJ Slam Head of Russian Investigative Committee over Threats to Senior Journalist
2012-06-14
International Federation of Journalists
Call to investigate reports of threats made by the Head of the Russian Investigative Committee to a senior journalist of Novaya Gazeta newspaper.
IFJ and the National Federation of Israeli Journalists
2009-07-07
International Federation of Journalists
Following a number of press inquiries related to the IFJâ##s decision to expel the National Federation of Israeli Journalist at the last meeting of its Executive Committee (June 6/7, the IFJ is makin...
IFJ backs red-armband campaign after Tunisian journalists attacked
2012-04-12
International Federation of Journalists
The IFJ has strongly condemned the Tunisian government following the physical assault of at least 14 journalists in two separate incidents this week.
IFJ backs Univision’s journalist booted out of Donald Trump’s press conference over immigration policy
2015-08-29
International Federation of Journalists
The International Federation of Journalists has supported its US affiliate The NewsGuild-CWA in condemning the attitude of the Republican presidential candidate, Donald Trump, after he ordered the rem...
IFJ Blames Hamas for Political Interference after Take-Over of PJS Office in Gaza
2011-10-14
International Federation of Journalists
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today accused the Hamas administration in Gaza of attempting to destabilize the leadership of the Palestinian Journalists' Syndicate (PJS).
IFJ Blasts Authorities over Failure to Stop Killings of Journalists after Veteran Murder in Mexico
2009-05-28
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ)
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has today blamed the Mexican authorities for failing to tackle the killings of journalists following the murder of veteran journalist, Eliseo BarrA#n ...
IFJ Calls for an End to the Harassment of Journalists in Yemen
2012-01-03
International Federation of Journalists
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today condemned the harassment and intimidation of journalists at the government-owned and army-controlled 26 September newspaper.
IFJ Calls for Inquiry Into Lasantha's Murder
2009-05-12
International Federation of Journalists
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins the widow of Sri Lankan journalist Lasantha Wickrematunge in calling on Sri Lanka's power-holders to take immediate action to conduct a full, fa...
IFJ Calls for Prompt Inquiry into Murder of Senior Journalist in Pakistan
2010-09-21
International Federation of Journalists
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today called on Pakistani authorities to launch an immediate inquiry in the murder of Mujeebur Rehman Saddiqui, senior correspondent of Daily Pakistan...
IFJ Condemns Alarming Levels of Violence against Journalists in Latin America after Murders in Guatemala and Colombia
2009-06-11
International Federation of Journalists
International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) Condemns Alarming Levels of Violence against Journalists in Latin America after Murders in Guatemala and Colombia.
IFJ Condemns Deadly Attack on Journalists in Mexico
2010-09-21
International Federation of Journalists
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today condemned the shooting attack on two young Mexican journalists in the city of Ciudad Juárez in which photojournalist Luis Carlos Santiago was ki...
IFJ Condemns Spate of Journalists' Murders in Honduras
2010-03-17
International Federation of Journalists
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today expressed fresh concern over the media crisis in Honduras following three murders in two weeks targeting media.
IFJ Condemns Strip Humiliation of Women Journalists in Sierra Leone
2009-02-19
International Federation of Journalists
The International Federation of Journalists strongly condemns the humiliating and degrading treatment suffered by four women journalists who were stripped naked in public in Sierra Leone while coverin...
IFJ Condemns U.S. Justice Dept for Secretly Gathering Associated Press Records
2013-05-20
International Federation of Journalists
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has joined its affiliate, the Newspaper Guild-CWA, in condemning the U.S. Justice Department for secretly gathering the phone records of Associated Pr...
IFJ Conference: Ethics and Gender: Equality in the newsroom
2009-05-28
International Federation of Journalists (IFJ)
What is women's representation in the news management? How do women journalists make their way in today's media changes? What role can journalists unions play in promoting gender equality? How can med...
IFJ Congress Holds Commemoration and Freedom Walk for Killed Journalists Across the World
2013-06-05
International Federation of Journalists
A special Freedom Walk to commemorate the 408 journalists across the world who have died in the service of their profession in the last three years was held in Dublin this evening.
IFJ Defending Journalists in Palestine and Israel
2009-02-13
International Federation of Journalists
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has reaffirmed its commitment to defend the interests of journalists in Palestine and Israel.
IFJ Denounces Attempts by Freedom of Expression Group to Weaken Copyright Protection for Journalists
2013-05-20
International Federation of Journalists
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has today denounced a set of principles issued by Article 19 to unduly restrict creators' copyright protection.
IFJ/FAJ Stand by Journalists against a Draconian Media Bill in Kenya
2013-11-06
International Federation of Journalists
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the Federation of African Journalists (FAJ) today have brought their support to the journalists' fraternity in Kenya against a draconian media bil...
IFJ Highlights Media Safety Crisis at International Conference on Somalia in UK
2011-02-08
International Federation of Journalists
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today called on representatives of the international community to give priority to measures to protect journalists in Somalia.
IFJ Joins Call for Release of Palestinian Journalists Held in Israel
2011-09-08
International Federation of Journalists
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today joined the call by its affiliate in Palestine, the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate (PJS), and Al Jazeera for the immediate release of journali...
IFJ Launches Booklet to Engage Media Professionals in Fight Against Gender Discrimination
2009-03-06
International Federation of Journalists
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has today called on media professionals and unions activists to join the fight against gender discrimination by releasing a booklet on gender equality...
IFJ Launches Emergency Appeal for Pakistani Journalists
2009-05-26
International Federation of Journalists (IFJ)
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is launching an emergency appeal to provide emergency financial support to more than 100 journalists and their families who were forced to flee the in...
IFJ launches gender campaign for Asia-Pacific's women in media
2015-03-16
International Federation of Journalists
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its affiliates have begun a campaign of gender action and discussion aimed at recognizing the vital role of women in the media and the need for ri...
IFJ Reports Heavy Media Loss to Violence after 97 Journalists Died in 2010
2011-01-11
International Federation of Journalists
The International Federation of Journalists warns that journalists and media personnel remain prime targets for political extremists, gangsters and terrorists as it announced that at least 94 journali...
IFJ to Hold 'Journalism in Shadow of Anti-Terror Laws' Conference on Tenth Anniversary of 9/11 Attacks in US
2011-09-08
Sources News Releases
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its European Group, the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) are holding an international conference to mark the tenth anniversary of the terr...
IFJ, UNESCO and UNWomen release report on women journalists across the Asia Pacific
2015-06-22
Today, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), UNESCO and UNWomen, released Inside the News: Challenges and Aspirations for Women Journalists in Asia and the Pacific. The report documents t...
IFJ Urges UN Human Rights Council to Act on Journalists' Summary Killings Report
2012-06-22
International Federation of Journalists
IFJ says recommendations by Special Rapporteur on extra judicial killings and summary executions to the United Nations Human Rights Council are a step in the right direction but urged the Council to h...
IFJ Welcomes Indictment of Former Security Operatives over Journalist's Torture in Colombia
2013-03-16
International Federation of Journalists
Seven former members of the former secret service in Colombia, the Administrative Department for Security (DAS), face charges of - psychological torture and intimidation' inflicted on prominent journ...
IFJ Welcomes New Vintu Partnership to Assist Stricken Media Families
2009-05-02
International Federation of Journalists (IFJ)
As part of its World Press Freedom Day actions the International Federation of Journalists has announced a new agreement with the Vintu Foundation to provide humanitarian assistance to families of jou...
IFJ Welcomes Resolution on Safety of Journalists Adopted by UN Human Rights Council
2012-09-28
International Federation of Journalists
The 21th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council has adopted a resolution calling for "States to promote a safe and enabling environment for journalists to perform their work independently ...
IFJ Welcomes Saudi Withdrawal on Decision to Flog Female Journalist
2009-10-27
International Federation of Journalists
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today welcomed the decision of King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz decision to cancel a Saudi Court sentence ordering a female journalist to receive 60 lashe...
IFJ Welcomes Successful Safety Training for Gaza Journalists in Egypt
2009-04-24
International Federation of Journalists
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has today welcomed the successful safety training organised for Gaza Journalists which took place in Cairo from 20 to 22 April.
IFJ/EFJ Call for Greek Government to Revoke Closure of Public Broadcaster
2013-06-13
International Federation of Journalists
Journalists' organizations call on the Greek government to immediately revoke their unprecedented decision to close down its public broadcasting station ERT.
IFJ/EFJ Demand Release of Belarus Journalist Accused of 'Assisting Invasion' of Swedish Teddy Bears
2012-07-20
International Federation of Journalists / European Federation of Journalist
Demand the release of Anton Surapin, a Belarus journalist who was arrested on 13th July after he was the first to publish photos of Swedish teddy Bears that had landed on Belarus soil.
IPS Africa Launches Reporting Gender-Based Violence Handbook
2010-01-03
Inter Press Service (IPS) Africa
Inter Press Service (IPS) Africa has launched a new handbook for reporters to support sustained media coverage of gender-based violence beyond 16 Days of No Violence Against Women and Children.
Iran bars foreign media from reporting on protests
2009-06-17
Committee to Protect Journalists
The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the Iranian government's decision to bar foreign journalists from leaving their offices to report, film, or take photographs--a restriction intended to pr...
Iraq: News website latest target in government's legal offensive against independent media
2009-05-20
Reporters without Borders
Reporters Without Borders condemns the Iraqi governmentâ##s continuing legal offensive against independent news media, which for the first time is also targeting Internet media.
Israel sentences two to prison terms for censorship breach
2009-06-17
Committee to Protect Journalists
The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns an Israeli court decision to sentence two television journalists on charges of breaching the military censorship law during the offensive in Gaza in Decem...
Israeli authorities close Palestinian media centre in East Jerusalem
2009-05-12
Reporters without Borders
Reporters Without Borders condemns yesterday morning's decision by the Israeli internal security ministry to shut down the Palestinian media centre that had been set up in the East Jerusalem.
Israeli authorities must cease their routine abuse and harassment of journalists, says IFJ
2017-07-26
International Federation of Journalists
The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate (PJS) recorded at least 15 incidents of journalists being attacked, abused or prevented from reporting by Israeli security forces while attempting to cover the Al...
Israeli government openly threatens journalists planning to sail with Gaza flotilla
2011-06-27
Reporters without Borders
Reporters Without Borders condemns the Israeli government’s attempts to intimidate journalists who plan to travel with a flotilla of ships that will set sail in the next few days in an attempt to brea...
Israeli media forbidden to report case widely covered internationally
2010-04-06
Reporters without Borders
Reporters Without Borders condemns an absurd court-ordered ban on Israeli media coverage of the case of Anat Kam, an online journalist and former soldier accused of leaking classified military informa...
Journalists are not informants
2014-10-31
Reporters without Borders
Two Cameroonian journalists face military court charges of failure to report a destabilization plot. Journalists Felix Cyriaque Ebole Bola of the daily Mutations and Rodrigue Tongue of Le Messager, we...
Journalists harassed, detained by Pakistan’s investigation agency
2017-07-26
International Federation of Journalists
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) condemns the harassment and detention of two reporters by the state agency in Islamabad, Pakistan on July 21. The IFJ demands action against the offic...
Journalists Welcome European Call to Review Anti-Terrorism Laws
2009-06-01
International Federation of Journalists
Ministers of the human rights network of the Council of Europe have called on their governments to review anti-terrorism laws in the face of strong criticism from journalists that some laws are in pra...
Justice Department finally stops harassing New York Times reporter
2015-01-21
Reporters Without Borders
Reporters Without Borders is relieved to learn that New York Times reporter James Risen will not be called to testify in the trial of Jeffrey Sterling, a former CIA officer charged with leaking classi...
Lack of transparency on Israel's expulsion of US journalist
2010-01-20
Reporters without Borders
Reporters Without Borders condemns suspicious circumstances surrounding Israel#s expulsion of US journalist, Jared Malsin, editor for the English service of the Palestinian press agency Ma#an.
Media control and intimidation a reality for 5.5 billion, says WAN-IFRA
2011-10-20
This year, 44 journalists have already been murdered, says the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA), which launched a review of press freedom around the world during World Ne...
Mexican journalist who covered police is abducted and killed
2009-05-27
Committee to Protect Journalists
Authorities found the body of a journalist who covered the police beat in northern Mexico after he was abducted from his house on Monday night, according to Mexican news reports.
Mexico: Investigating attack on Monterrey TV studios a "test" for federal justice ministry
2009-01-07
Reporters without Borders
Reporters Without Borders hopes for quick results from the investigation into yesterdayâ##s armed attack in Monterrey in which gunmen threw a grenade and opened fire on the regional studios of the pri...
More than 100 media sign the Reporters Without Borders petition for international journalists to be allowed into the Gaza Strip
2009-01-14
Reporters without Borders
Reporters Without Borders reiterates its appeal for support by the international media and again urges the Israeli authorities to lift the ban on foreign media access to the Gaza Strip that has been i...
More than 3,500 petition Iran to free journalists, writers
2010-04-06
Sources
More than 3,500 concerned people from around the world are petitioning Iran#s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Sayed Ali Khamenei, to immediately release dozens of journalists writers, and bloggers currently...
Myanmar journalist arrested and blocked from leaving country
2017-08-03
International Federation of Journalists
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) condemns the latest move by authorities in Myanmar, following the detainment of a journalist at Yangon International Airport on Sunday, July 30, 2017.
Nepalese journalist and women's rights activist brutally murdered
2009-01-12
Uma Singh, a Nepalese journalist and human rights activist who worked for the Janakpur Today Daily and Radio Today FM was brutually murdered on January 11.
No visa for German journalist who wants to base himself in New Delhi
2009-09-03
Reporters without Borders
Reporters Without Borders urges the Indian government to issue a press visa to Hasnain Kazim, a German journalist of Indian origin, so that he can base himself in India as the German weekly Der Spiege...
Notice of vacancy for IFJ Deputy General Secretary/EFJ General Secretary
2011-06-23
International Federation of Journalists
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) are seeking to appoint an IFJ Deputy General Secretary who will also serve as the EFJ General Secreta...
Ordeal continues for journalists detained in Egypt
2014-01-10
Reporters without Borders
Reporters Without Borders condemns yesterday's announcement by the Egyptian authorities that they are extending the provisional detention of three Al-Jazeera journalists for another 15 days.
Outrage as Al-Jazeera retrial ends with three-year jail terms
2015-08-29
Reporters Without Borders
Reporters Without Borders is appalled by the three-year jail sentences that a Cairo court, after many postponements, finally passed today on Al-Jazeera journalists Mohamed Fadel Fahmy, Baher Mohamed a...
Participants at IFEX General Meeting demand action
2009-06-03
International Freedom of Expression eXchange
Free expression advocates from around the world gathered this week in Oslo, Norway for the General Meeting (GM) of the International Freedom of Expression eXchange (IFEX).
Press freedom activist badly beaten in Colombo, hospitalised
2009-06-02
Reporters without Borders
Reporters Without Borders is outraged by an assault on Poddala Jayantha, the secretary-general of the Sri Lanka Working Journalists Association (SLWJA), the country's leading journalists organisation.
Press Freedom Under Fire in South Asia, 2008-09
2009-05-02
International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) & South Asia Media Solidarity
The seventh annual report on press freedom in South Asia documents alarming trends in working conditions for journalists.
Rally in support of French journalists held hostage for past 18 months
2011-06-28
Reporters without Borders
Reporters Without Borders continues to press for the release of the only journalists currently held hostage anywhere in the world, French TV reporters Hervé Ghesquière and Stéphane Taponier, who were ...
Reporters arrested, roughed up while covering Occupy Wall Street protests
2011-10-14
Reporters without Borders
The often violent response to the Occupy Wall Street campaign that is growing in the United States and elsewhere is affecting the freedom to inform. Reporters Without Borders condemns the arrests of r...
Reporters Without Borders opens bureau in Tunis
2011-10-14
Reporters without Borders
Reporters Without Borders opened a bureau in Tunis on 12th October. Its staff will have the job of raising media freedom violations with the Tunisian authorities and helping to build and develop stabl...
Reporters Without Borders publishes a first Guide for exiled journalists
2009-06-20
Reporters Without Borders
Reporters Without Borders marked World Refugee Day by publishing a guide for journalists driven into exile, to provide them with information about the procedures and potential obstacles in seeking asy...
Reuters photographer begins second year in US military detention
2009-09-03
Reporters without Borders
Reporters Without Borders condemns the continuing American refusal to release Reuters photographer Ibrahim Jassam, who today begins his second year of detention by the US military in Iraq.
Roxana Saberi finally freed
2009-05-12
Reporters without Borders
Reporters Without Borders hails todayâ##s release of Iranian-American journalist.
Safer, Smarter Journalism: Digital Security Need for South Asia's Journalists
2016-05-28
International Federation of Journalists
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the South Asia Media Solidarity Network (SAMSN) have launched Safer, Smarter Journalism, a week-long digital security campaign to build digital se...
Safety and Justice: Protecting Journalists in the Middle East and the Arab World
2012-04-12
Declaration adopted by the regional conference entitled " Safety and Justice: Protecting Journalists in the Middle East and the Arab World" held in Cairo , Egypt from 4 to 5 April.
Sentence Against US Journalists in North Korea is Inhumane and Unjust, Says IFJ
2009-06-10
International Federation of Journalists
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) called for the immediate release of the two United States journalists, Euna Lee and Laura Ling, who have been jailed by North Korea.
South African journalists probed over scandal coverage
2012-07-31
Committee to Protect Journalists
South African authorities should immediately drop a criminal investigation against three newspaper journalists who have sought to report details on a multi-billion-dollar arms scandal, the Committee t...
Thailand: Call for moratorium on prosecutions for criticising the King, dialogue on Internet freedom
2009-04-28
Reporters Without Borders joined by 31 other organisations in a call for moratorium on prosecutions for criticising the King, dialogue on Internet freedom.
Turkey: Cumhuriyet journalists face trial on 24 July
2017-07-26
International Federation of Journalists
The International and European Federation of Journalists (IFJ/EFJ) join their affiliates TGS and DISK Basin-Is in condemning the trial of the Turkish newspaper Cumhuriyet
Two Azeri journalists imprisoned, a third sentenced
2009-10-12
Committee to Protect Journalists
The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the prison sentences given to journalists at the weekly newspaper Nota on defamation charges.
2009 Journalist Conference in Israel: No News
2009-12-02
Hagadah Hasmalit - Alternative Information Center
The support provided by Israel's primary media to the security and political moves of the government - any government - is not new in Israel. The perception that media is committed to the ethics of th...
2009 Leaves One of Worst Records for Targeted Killings of Journalists, Says IFJ
2009-12-31
International Federation of Journalists
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today called for more action from governments and the United Nations to protect media as it announced a grim total of 137 journalists and media person...
WACC and IFJ Launch Resource Kit to Strengthen Gender-Ethical Journalism
2012-12-02
International Federation of Journalists
The World Association for Christian Communication (WACC) and the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) launch a new resource to promote gender ethical journalism.
Winners of Courage in Journalism Awards Announced
2009-10-23
International Womenâ##s Media Foundation
Iryna Khalip of Belarus, Agnes Taile of Cameroon and Jila Baniyaghoob of Iran win Courage in Journalism Awards from the International Womenâ##s Media Foundation. Amira Hass of Israel is Lifetime Achie...

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Accredition of journalists violates press freedom, says Philippine union
Sources News Release
Article
2015
International Federation of Journalists (IFJ)
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) in strongly criticizing the provision in House Bill 362, which seeks to amend Republ...
Advocacy Journalism
Connexipedia Article
Article
A genre of journalism that intentionally and transparently adopts a non-objective viewpoint, usually for some social or political purpose.
African Journalists leaders summit outlines strategies to roll back impunity and defend journalists' rights
Sources News Release
Article
2009
Federation of African Journalists (FAJ)
Leaders of the Federation of African Journalists have condemned at their biannual meeting in Djibouti on June 23rd, the unsafe and precarious working conditions of journalists in Africa.
After the interview
Rothstein, Al
Article
1999
Sources
What to do after being interviewed by a reporter.
Al Jazeera Journalist Responds to U.S. Labeling Him Aa Qaeda
Currier, Cora
Article
2015
The Intercept
A journalist is supposed to cover all sides of the story but when one does so with Al Qaeda, he is labelled a terrorist.
All Journalism Is 'Advocacy Journalism'
Edwards, David
Article
2013
Media Lens
The claim that journalism 'traditionally' involves 'the dispassionate reporting of facts', that journalists are typically not 'advocates', was advocated by a paid employee of a media corporation, the ...
And Then They Came For Me
Final Words from Lasantha Wickrematunge
Wickrematunge, Lasantha
Article
2009
The Sunday Leader
An editorial by Lasantha Wickrematunge shortly before he was murdered on January 8, 2009, and published three days after his death.
Are we journalists first?
Fitts, Alexis; Pring, Nicola
Article
2014
Columbia Journalism Review
Authors address a longstanding debate about whether and when a reporter can intervene in a story. Real accounts are provided as examples.
Arts Journalism
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Article
Authentic journalism: weapon of the people
Giordano, Al
Article
2010
openDemocracy
The path out of the crises wrought by commercial journalism opens when citizens steal back the mission that big media claimed but failed to do: Honest, coherent storytelling.
Be sure this way of life is something you are keen on, because it will eat up your time
Bilton, Michael
Article
2012
ICIJ
The riches contained in this questionnaire with multi-award-winning investigative journalist Michael Bilton. Read on to learn details about his research methodology, and why a significant investment o...
Beyond the dross
Pilger, John; Platt, Steve
Article
2010
Red Pepper
Pilger and Platt discuss the state of journalism.
Beyond the dross
Pilger, John; Platt, Steve
Article
2010
Red Pepper
Pilger and Platt discuss the craft of journalism.
Broadcast journalism
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Article
Brothers-in-Arms: Capitalism and Corporate Journalism
Article
2010
Medialens
An essential role of corporate journalism is to shore up public confidence in an unjust, crisis-riven financial and economic system. Although plenty of gloom and doom is permitted, especially in the f...
Building a better Journalism
Media activists and scholars share their ideas
Various
Article
2009
Extra!
Extra! asked progressive media activists and scholars to share their ideas on how to make journalism's future better than its present; the following are some of the highlights: The one thing that we ...
Business journalism
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Article
Canadian group not dealing with major free expression issue
Celebrating World Press Freedom Day
Fillmore, Nick
Article
2014
We need to address how corporate-owned mainstream news organizations restrict the freedom of journalists and prevent the public from having access to a wide variety of important news and opinion artic...
Canadian university launches bachelor's degree in sports media
Valji, Salim
Article
2013
World News Publishing Focus
Ryerson University, one of Canada’s top journalism schools, has announced the creation of the country’s first bachelor’s degree specifically geared towards sports media.
Canwest latest 'media giant' to exploit news operations
Fillmore, Nick
Article
2009
Connexions
Media corporations claim to care about quality journalism, but they've deceived Canadians for decades -- censoring news to protect their profits, pandering to the interests of the corporate world, and...
The casual sexism of being a female journalist
Ward, Rachel
Article
2015
The Coast
One or two prejudicial remarks might not mean much but add several hundred together and it can weigh down your confidence. Women in journalism can attest to this fact.
Catastrophes on Camera
Why Media Coverage of Natural Disasters is Most So Bad
Cockburn, Patrick
Article
2010
CounterPunch
The reporting of cataclysms or lesser disasters is often wildly misleading. Stereotyping is common: whichever the country involved, there are similar images of wrecked bridges, half-submerged houses a...
Champions Of Democracy - From Fake News To Imposed Insanity
Article
2018
Media Lens
While social media is largely blamed for the proliferation of 'fake news', it is through social media where the corporate media commentariat are exposed. Readers are now at last able to see some ratio...
Citizen journalism
Connexipedia Article
Article
Citizens' Bill of Journalism Rights
What Citizens Should Expect from the Press
Article
An article that attempts to define the common principles of the profession. What journalists should offer and citizens should expect.
Civic Journalism
Connexipedia Article
Article
A climate of fear endangers press freedom
Article
2009
Committee to Protect Journalists
Today, the greatest threats to freedom of the press are more insidious than a generation ago because they are intended to induce a climate of fear and self-censorship through systematic violence and e...
Columnist
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Article
Coming Attraction: Carleton Journalism Review
News Release - June 1977
Article
1977
July 1977 will see the appearance of a new and exciting Canadian journalism review: the Carleton Journalism Review.
Community Journalism
Connexipedia Article
Article
A Comparative Review of Flat Earth News and Newspeak
Cook, Jonathan
Article
2009
Medialens
A comparative review of two recent books about the media, one a mainstream view, the other using the propaganda model of media control.
CPJ award goes to jailed Sri Lankan journalist
Sources News Release
Article
2009
Committee to Protect Journalists
The Committee to Protect Journalists announced today that it will honor imprisoned Sri Lankan journalist J.S. Tissainayagam with a 2009 International Press Freedom Award.
A creeping quiet in Indian journalism?
Nielsen, Rasmus Kleis
Article
2017
Huffington Post
How a combination of government pressure, harassment by political activists, commercial actors including both advertisers and some media owners, is exercising a chilling effect on Indian journalism.
The Crisis in Investigative Journalism
The Case of James Risen
Hawkins, John Kendall
Article
2014
CounterPunch
Investigative journalists are the vanguard of the so-called Fourth Estate, bearing the formidable task of watchdogging the other three estates
The Dangers of Embedded Journalism
A Distorted View of War
Cockburn, Patrick
Article
2010
CounterPunch
The Dangers of Journalism 101
Journalists who don't run with the pack routinely face difficulty and danger
Gorman, Peter
Article
2013
The Narco News Bulletin
Journalists who cover cutting edge material, the politics of repression or wars or covert operations have always been at risk. It’s part of the job and part of the joy of the job. The risk, the danger...
Dean's Digital World: The reporter's friend
Tudor, Dean
Article
2007
Sources
The Death of the Fourth Estate
8000 Channels With One Corporate Message
O'Connor, Billy
Article
2014
CounterPunch
According to a recent Gallup survey, only 40 percent of Americans believe what they read in newspapers. After scanning today’s tabloids, one only wonders why the percentage is that high.
The Demonology School of Journalism
Putin and the press
Petras, James
Article
2015
Dissident Voice
The major influential western print media are engaged in a prolonged, large-scale effort to demonize Russian President Putin, his politics and persona. There is an article (or several articles) every ...
Docufiction
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Article
Don't Be Boring, Just Because You Have To Get the Facts Right
Leigh, David
Article
2012
ICIJ
The Guardian's investigations editor lists the essential skills to get a journalism job, the right mindset for investigative reporters, and the most important lesson he's learned over the years.
Double standards: Do all journalist lives matter?
Mandhai, Shafik
Article
2017
Aljazeera
Little attention is paid to reporters from the Global South who are killed, abused, or left stranded by foreign media.
EFJ Policy Document on Protection of Journalists
Article
2009
European Federation of Journalists
A significant number of countries now recognize the protection of journalists# sources. In most countries with laws, there appear to be few cases where journalists are required to disclose source info...
The Elements of Journalism
What Newspeople Should Know and the Public Should Expect, Completely Updated and Revised
Kovach, Bill and Rostentiel, Tom
Book
2001
Crown
The Elements of Journalism delineates the core principles shared by journalists across media, even across cultures. These principles flow from the essential function news plays in people's lives. This...
The end of the story
When a prominent journalist was killed for investigating black activists, it shocked America.
Harris, Tom
Article
2007
The Guardian
On August 2nd 2007 Chauncey Bailey was murdered, he was the first journalist in thirty years to be murdered in the U.S. in the pursuit of a story.
Entertainment journalism
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Article
Environmental journalism
Connexipedia Article
Article
The collection, verification, production, distribution and exhibition of information regarding current events, trends, issues and people that are associated with the non-human world with which humans ...
Ethics and Gender: Equality in the newsroom, Brussels Declaration
Sources News Release
Article
2009
International Federation of Journalists
Brussels Declaraton on Ethics and Gender: Equality in the newsroom.
Eyes With Legs
Dinh, Linh
Article
2010
CounterPunch
In the last decade, 11 journalists have been murdered by Israeli forces, including Cevdet Kiliclar, a Turkish who was shot in the head, last week, as he photographed Israeli commandos attacking peace ...
Fabricated attacks by Colombian journalists mask real dangers
Otis, John
Article
2015
Comittee to Protect Journalists
In a profession climate of threats, criminals and corrupt politicians, two journalists attempted to capitalize on the situation by sending fake death threats to their fellow reporters.
Fact checker
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Article
A fact checker is the person who checks factual assertions in non-fictional text, usually intended for publication in a periodical, to determine their veracity and correctness. The job requires genera...
FAJ Condemns the Arrest and Intimidation of Three Journalists in Zimbabwe
Sources News Release
Article
2015
International Federation of Journalists
The Federation of African Journalists (FAJ), the Africa Group of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has condemned the arrest of three journalists from The Sunday Mail in Harare, Zimbabw...
Fake News Inquiry: Old Wine in New Bottles
Kampmark, Binoy
Article
2017
Counterpunch
A criticism of a recent investigation by the UK's Culture, Media and Sports committee into 'fake news' and public persuasion by false propaganda, describing the challenges of identifying or preventing...
Fashion journalism
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Article
Feature story
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Article
A piece of journalistic writing that covers a particular issue in-depth.
Feral Journalism - Rewilding Dissent
Media Lens
Article
2015
Media Lens
Media censorship from corporations and politicians are distoring our view of reality but most of us aren't so far gone that we can't recognize the need for non-corporate media.
'Follow Your Bliss' - The Tweet That Brought Corporate Journalism To The Brink Of A Nervous Breakthrough
Article
2018
Media Lens
Don't write for the "mainstream". Don't write for money. Don't write for prestige. Just "follow your bliss" by writing what you absolutely love to write to inspire and enlighten other people. Write wh...
Frame of Reference and Journalistic Integrity
Petersen, Kim
Article
2014
Dissident Voice
A criticism of the article, "Journalism and the Illusion of Objectivity" by Michael Holtzman, challenging Holtzman's claims on the nature of objectivity and bias in reporting.
Free Speech and Unsafe Spaces
Malik, Kenan
Article
2017
Pandaemonium
Malik criticizes "the blinkered, self-centred, indeed narcissistic, attitudes that shape much contemporary discussion on speech and its limits. Free speech, from this perspective, requires not a robus...
Frequently Asked Questions about Sources
Article
2009
Sources
SOURCES is a media service that connects journalists, editors, authors and researchers with the sources they need for their work. SOURCES spotlights organizations, institutions, government agencies, c...
Gary Webb at the 2003 School of Authentic Journalism
Film/Video
2003
Narco News
Gary Webb (1955-2004), the investigative journalist who reported cocaine trafficking by the CIA in 1996, is portrayed in the motion picture, Kill the Messenger, by Jeremy Renner. He was a founding pro...
Gary Webb "It Was Outrageous But It Was True"
The School of Authentic Journalism
Film/Video
2003
Narco News
Part one in a series featuring Gary Webb in his own words. The interview was conducted and filmed by the Guerrilla News Network, scholars, and professors at the 2003 School of Authentic Journalism.
Gary Webb: Vindicated
Conroy, Bill
Article
2014
Narco News
Family Members of the Intrepid Investigative Journalist — Soon To Be Immortalized By An Upcoming Hollywood Movie — Share Their Story With The World.
Getting the Balance Right
Gender Equality in Journalism
Article
2009
International Federation of Journalists
Gender equality in journalism.
Getting your story into the media
Article
2009
Sources
Stories are the heart and soul of the media. Journalism is about telling stories, and good stories require sources # human contacts, the people who provide informed comment and expertise, the people w...
Global data journalism resources
Looney, Margaret
Article
2014
International Journalists' Network
An list of resources that have been compiled by IJN using their readers' suggestions. This list is organized by country, and covers a variety of subtopics under data journalism.
Gonzo journalism
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Article
Guidelines for exiled journalists
Article
2009
Reporters without Reporters
A guide for journalists driven into exile, to provide them with information about the procedures and potential obstacles in seeking asylum.
The Harper Years: Tough Times For Reporters In Canada
Sources News Release
Article
2015
Reporters Without Borders
As federal elections will be held in Canada on October 19, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) reviews the evolution of freedom of the press and information during Prime Minister Stephen Harper's tenure. ...
Helping you reach the media
How Sources can help you get more and better media coverage
Article
2009
Sources
Media coverage is the most valuable kind of publicity there is because it is based on the news value or information value of what you do or say, and is therefore far more credible than paid publicity ...
History of journalism
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Article
Hollywood's Gary Webb Movie and the Message that Big Media Couldn't Kill
Giordano, Al
Article
2014
Narco News
Gary's email arrived quite by surprise. I knew about his Dark Alliance series, five years prior, documenting the CIA's trafficking of cocaine to fund paramilitary squads in Central America. I also kne...
Hostile climate for Dominican media since start of 2015
Article
2015
Reporters Without Borders
The first half of 2015 has been arduous for journalists in the Dominican Republic, with physical attacks, threats, prosecutions and a murder. Freedom of information is also weakened by continuing impu...
How A-historical Journalism Serves Power
A Calendar of Infamy
Norton, Ben
Article
2013
Counter Punch
Contemporary journalism has a horrendous habit of considering history superfluous.
How can you protect yourself from online snooping?
Sources News Release
Article
2013
Reporters without Borders
Reporters Without Borders has published an Online Survival Kit on its WefightCensorship.org website that has tools and practical advice that will allow you to protect your communications and data.
How far will Media Council go to eliminate Klubradio?
Sources News Release
Article
2012
Reporters without Borders
Reporters Without Borders is dismayed to learn that Hungary's Media Council (NMHH) has rejected opposition radio station Klubradio's bid to keep its Budapest commercial radio frequency.
How I Became a "Recovering Documentary Filmmaker" and Learned to Reach a Wider Public
The School of Authentic Journalism Saved My Life: Your Donations Make It Possible
Berger, Gregory
Article
2012
Narco News
A look into the way that the The School of Authentic Journalism guides journalists and organizers to reach wider audiences.
How to Write about Haiti
Herz, Ansel
Article
2010
Mediahacker
How to make sure that you stick to the tried and proven cliches.
If money is your object, journalism is the wrong industry
Laurin, Fredrik
Article
2013
ICIJ
Swedish investigative reporter Fredrik Laurin knows that power corrupts, but also that resistance in the form of journalism can have effect. In this Q&A he shares how his team identifies good investig...
If money is your object, journalism is the wrong industry
Laurin, Fredrik
Article
2013
ICIJ
Swedish investigative reporter Fredrik Laurin knows that power corrupts, but also that resistance in the form of journalism can have effect. In this material he shares how his team identifies good inv...
I.F. Stone: A Wonderful Pariah
Zwicker, Barrie
Article
1989
Canadian Dimension
IFEX members call for protection for women journalists and activists to mark day against violence
Sources News Release
Article
2009
IFEX
40 IFEX members are marking the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women today, 25 November, with a joint call for action.
IFJ Blasts Authorities over Failure to Stop Killings of Journalists after Veteran Murder in Mexico
Sources News Release
Article
2009
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ)
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has today blamed the Mexican authorities for failing to tackle the killings of journalists following the murder of veteran journalist, Eliseo BarrA#n ...
IFJ Calls for Inquiry Into Lasantha's Murder
Sources News Release
Article
2009
International Federation of Journalists
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins the widow of Sri Lankan journalist Lasantha Wickrematunge in calling on Sri Lanka's power-holders to take immediate action to conduct a full, fa...
IFJ Condemns Alarming Levels of Violence against Journalists in Latin America after Murders in Guatemala and Colombia
Sources News Release
Article
2009
International Federation of Journalists
International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) Condemns Alarming Levels of Violence against Journalists in Latin America after Murders in Guatemala and Colombia.
IFJ Condemns Spate of Journalists' Murders in Honduras
Sources News Release
Article
2010
International Federation of Journalists
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today expressed fresh concern over the media crisis in Honduras following three murders in two weeks targeting media.
IFJ Condemns Strip Humiliation of Women Journalists in Sierra Leone
Sources News Release
Article
2009
International Federation of Journalists
The International Federation of Journalists strongly condemns the humiliating and degrading treatment suffered by four women journalists who were stripped naked in public in Sierra Leone while coverin...
IFJ Condemns U.S. Justice Dept for Secretly Gathering Associated Press Records
Sources News Release
Article
2013
International Federation of Journalists
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has joined its affiliate, the Newspaper Guild-CWA, in condemning the U.S. Justice Department for secretly gathering the phone records of Associated Pr...
IFJ Conference: Ethics and Gender: Equality in the newsroom
Sources News Release
Article
2009
International Federation of Journalists (IFJ)
What is women's representation in the news management? How do women journalists make their way in today's media changes? What role can journalists unions play in promoting gender equality? How can med...
IFJ Defending Journalists in Palestine and Israel
Sources News Release
Article
2009
International Federation of Journalists
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has reaffirmed its commitment to defend the interests of journalists in Palestine and Israel.
IFJ Denounces Attempts by Freedom of Expression Group to Weaken Copyright Protection for Journalists
Sources News Release
Article
2013
International Federation of Journalists
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has today denounced a set of principles issued by Article 19 to unduly restrict creators' copyright protection.
IFJ/FAJ Stand by Journalists against a Draconian Media Bill in Kenya
Sources News Release
Article
2013
International Federation of Journalists
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the Federation of African Journalists (FAJ) today have brought their support to the journalists' fraternity in Kenya against a draconian media bil...
IFJ Launches Booklet to Engage Media Professionals in Fight Against Gender Discrimination
Sources News Release
Article
2009
International Federation of Journalists
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has today called on media professionals and unions activists to join the fight against gender discrimination by releasing a booklet on gender equality...
IFJ Launches Emergency Appeal for Pakistani Journalists
Sources News Release
Article
2009
International Federation of Journalists (IFJ)
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is launching an emergency appeal to provide emergency financial support to more than 100 journalists and their families who were forced to flee the in...
IFJ, UNESCO and UNWomen release report on women journalists across the Asia Pacific
Sources News Release
Article
2015
Today, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), UNESCO and UNWomen, released Inside the News: Challenges and Aspirations for Women Journalists in Asia and the Pacific. The report documents t...
IFJ Welcomes Indictment of Former Security Operatives over Journalist's Torture in Colombia
Sources News Release
Article
2013
International Federation of Journalists
Seven former members of the former secret service in Colombia, the Administrative Department for Security (DAS), face charges of - psychological torture and intimidation' inflicted on prominent journ...
IFJ Welcomes New Vintu Partnership to Assist Stricken Media Families
Sources News Release
Article
2009
International Federation of Journalists (IFJ)
As part of its World Press Freedom Day actions the International Federation of Journalists has announced a new agreement with the Vintu Foundation to provide humanitarian assistance to families of jou...
IFJ Welcomes Successful Safety Training for Gaza Journalists in Egypt
Sources News Release
Article
2009
International Federation of Journalists
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has today welcomed the successful safety training organised for Gaza Journalists which took place in Cairo from 20 to 22 April.
The Illusion of Democracy
Liberal Journalism, Wikileaks And Climate Deceptions
Cormwell, David
Article
2012
MediaLens
In an era of permanent war, economic meltdown and climate ‘weirding’, we need all the champions of truth and justice that we can find. But where are they? What happened to trade unions, the green move...
The Importance of Journalism and Communications to Social Movements
Sicilia, Javier
Article
2012
Narco News
Remarks of Javier Sicilia to the School of Authentic Journalism.
Interior Ministry protection programme for journalists also used for "close-quarters spying"
Article
2009
Reporters without Borders
Journalist Claudia Julieta Duque, who is under an interior ministry protection programme for journalists, has been harassed and intimidated by Colombia's intelligence services, who obtained informatio...
The Internet, Capitalism, and the State - Book Review
A Review of Robert McChesney's "Digital Disconnect"
Sperber,Joshua
Article
2013
Counterpunch
Robert McChesney's Digital Disconnect is an account of the internet's history and likely future within the context of corporate-dominated U.S. society.
IPS Africa Launches Reporting Gender-Based Violence Handbook
Sources News Release
Article
2010
Inter Press Service (IPS) Africa
Inter Press Service (IPS) Africa has launched a new handbook for reporters to support sustained media coverage of gender-based violence beyond 16 Days of No Violence Against Women and Children.
Iran bars foreign media from reporting on protests
Sources News Release
Article
2009
Committee to Protect Journalists
The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the Iranian government's decision to bar foreign journalists from leaving their offices to report, film, or take photographs--a restriction intended to pr...
Iraq: News website latest target in government's legal offensive against independent media
Sources News Release
Article
2009
Reporters without Borders
Reporters Without Borders condemns the Iraqi governmentâ##s continuing legal offensive against independent news media, which for the first time is also targeting Internet media.
Israel sentences two to prison terms for censorship breach
Sources News Release
Article
2009
Committee to Protect Journalists
The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns an Israeli court decision to sentence two television journalists on charges of breaching the military censorship law during the offensive in Gaza in Decem...
Israeli army's attitude: Regret, but no real enquiries and certainly no one punished
Visser, Nadette de; Cazes, Séverine
Article
2003
Reporters without Borders
The issue of the security of journalists working in the Occupied Territories cloaks another major political issue, that of the restrictions which the Israeli army imposes in the name of security on jo...
Israeli authorities close Palestinian media centre in East Jerusalem
Sources News Release
Article
2009
Reporters without Borders
Reporters Without Borders condemns yesterday morning's decision by the Israeli internal security ministry to shut down the Palestinian media centre that had been set up in the East Jerusalem.
Israeli journalist Anat Kam under secret house arrest since December
Article
2010
Guardian
An Israeli journalist has been under secret house arrest since December on charges that she leaked highly sensitive, classified military documents which suggest the Israeli military breached a court o...
Israeli media forbidden to report case widely covered internationally
Sources News Release
Article
2010
Reporters without Borders
Reporters Without Borders condemns an absurd court-ordered ban on Israeli media coverage of the case of Anat Kam, an online journalist and former soldier accused of leaking classified military informa...
Journalism
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Article
Journalism and 'the words of power'
Fisk, Robert
Article
2010
Al Jazeera
More and more today, we journalists have become prisoners of the language of power.
Journalism as a Weapon of War
John Pilger address to Columbia University
Pilger, John
Article
2006
johnpilger.com
On 14 April 2006, the Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University in New York brought together John Pilger, Seymour Hersh, Robert Fisk and Charles Glass for a discussion entitled 'Breaking...
Journalism ethics and standards
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Article
Journalism genres
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Article
The term "journalism genres" refers to various journalism styles, fields or separate genres, in writing accounts of events.
Journalism is a profession, not a cover
Tabar, Tania
Article
2009
Menassat
The kidnapping of two French government security advisors in Mogadishu on Tuesday caused outrage among media workers and rights groups - after reports surfaced that they had been posing as journalists...
Journalism school
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Article
Journalism & Writing Topic Index in Sources Directory of Experts
Spokespersons, Experts, and Resources
Website
Sources
A subject guide to experts and spokespersons on topics related to journalism and writing in the Sources directory for the media.
JournalismSources.com
Website
2017
Sources
A portal featuring news, articles, and resources about journalism, press freedom, free speech, censorship and related topics. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A sea...
Journalistic Malpractice at the Post and the Times
Rejecting the Offer of Evidence of US War Crimes
Lindorff, David
Article
2013
Counterpunch
Wikileaks source Bradley Manning is evidence that the USA’s two leading news organizations, the Washington Post and the New York Times, are not willing to report critically of the government.
Journalists allege threat of drone execution by US
Parvaz, D
Article
2017
Aljazeera
Fearing assassination, Al Jazeera's Ahmad Zaidan and independent journalist Bilal Abdul Kareem file US legal complaint.
Journalists are not informants
Sources News Release
Article
2014
Reporters without Borders
Two Cameroonian journalists face military court charges of failure to report a destabilization plot. Journalists Felix Cyriaque Ebole Bola of the daily Mutations and Rodrigue Tongue of Le Messager, we...
Journalists assaulted and censored
Article
2010
International Freedom of Expression Exchange (IFEX)
Palestinian journalists are under attack from Israeli forces and are also subjected to raids and arrests as a result of political rivalry between the Palestinian Authority and Hamas, report the Palest...
Journalists Killed since 1992
Article
2009
Committee to Protect Journalists
A database of more than 700 journalists who have been murdered or killed on dangerous assignments since 1992. Interactive maps, timelines, and statistical breakdowns providing analysis by country, yea...
Journalists Rock! Journalism Sucks!
Jensen, Robert
Article
2012
Countercurrents
Working journalists often do the best they can within institutions that place severe limits on them, in much the same way that teachers struggle. Journalists and teachers rock. The problem is the corp...
Journalists Slug it out Over Coverage
Article
1980
Sources
Coverage of an ongoing debate over government land controls here turned into a mudslinging match between journalists.
Journalists Welcome European Call to Review Anti-Terrorism Laws
Sources News Release
Article
2009
International Federation of Journalists
Ministers of the human rights network of the Council of Europe have called on their governments to review anti-terrorism laws in the face of strong criticism from journalists that some laws are in pra...
Jousting With Toothpicks - The Case For Challenging Corporate Journalism
Edwards, David
Article
2013
Media Lens
A critic responding to a recent alert objected to our use of the term 'corporate journalist'. In fact the meaning of 'corporate journalist' could hardly be clearer: it describes someone paid to write ...
Justice Department finally stops harassing New York Times reporter
Sources News Release
Article
2015
Reporters Without Borders
Reporters Without Borders is relieved to learn that New York Times reporter James Risen will not be called to testify in the trial of Jeffrey Sterling, a former CIA officer charged with leaking classi...
Justice in the News: A Response to the targetting of media in Gaza
Article
2009
International Federation of Journalists and Federation of Arab Journalists
A mission to Gaza found that media were subject to intimidation and direct military assault and deliberately prevented from working freely. The findings confirm evidence of frequent targeting of media...
Lazy Journalists are the Darlings of the Corporations
Indian Country and the Lessons of McCarthyism
Norrell, Brenda
Article
2009
CounterPunch
Lazy journalists are great friends of the corporations. They are known as "armchair journalists" because they sit in comfort and rewrite press releases from politicians and corporations. To spice it u...
A Life of Challenge to the Dogma of "Objectivity"
Richard Bell Is Practiced at Juggling Journalism, Advocacy and Politics
Han, Kirsten
Article
2012
Narco News
Journalism, advocacy, politics: Are they completely different fields or aspects of the same game? Can someone actually do all three? Richard Bell has done them all and has lived to tell the tale.
Manual teaches intelligence agency employees how to spy on problem journalists
Article
2009
The weekly Semana has revealed the existence of an instruction manual for employees of the Administrative Department of Security (DAS), Colombia's leading intelligence agency, that explains how they s...
Media Capitalism, the State and 21st Century Media Democracy Struggles
An interview with Robert McChesney
McChesney, Robert
Article
2009
Relay
Robert McChesney talks about contemporary media capitalism and 21st century media democracy struggles to understand and change it.
Media control and intimidation a reality for 5.5 billion, says WAN-IFRA
Sources News Release
Article
2011
This year, 44 journalists have already been murdered, says the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA), which launched a review of press freedom around the world during World Ne...
Media Gets Targeted by Obama, Discovers No One Cares Except the Media
Welcome to the Freakshow
Markus, Bethania
Article
2013
Counter Punch
The news media has a role to play and it’s not entertainment. Instead of informing people what their government is doing abroad, news organizations are making up fiction about food stamps breaking the...
Media spies put all journalists in danger
Madsen, Wayne
Article
2014
Strategic Culture Foundation
The increasing tendency of the Central Intelligence Agency and other U.S. intelligence agencies to disregard previous prohibitions against the use of journalists as agents puts every legitimate report...
A memorial to killed journalists, a call to action
Article
2009
Committee to Protect Journalists
More than 500 journalists have been targeted for murder, our research shows, and nearly nine in 10 of these slayings go unpunished. Another 200 journalists have been killed in combat or on dangerous a...
Mexican journalist Lydia Cacho: 'I don't scare easily'
Saner, Emine
Article
2012
The Guardian
Lydia Cacho is one of Mexico's most fearless journalists. Her investigations have led to attempts on her life, and now she has been forced to flee her country. What next?
Mexican journalist who covered police is abducted and killed
Sources News Release
Article
2009
Committee to Protect Journalists
Authorities found the body of a journalist who covered the police beat in northern Mexico after he was abducted from his house on Monday night, according to Mexican news reports.
"Mr. Boston": Meet the Man Who Secretly Helped Daniel Ellsberg Leak Pentagon Papers to the Press
Goodman, Amy
Article
2018
Democracy Now
Interview with historian Gar Alperovitz. Alperovitz has revealed for the first time the key role he and a handful of other activists played in helping whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg leak to journalists...
More than 100 media sign the Reporters Without Borders petition for international journalists to be allowed into the Gaza Strip
Sources News Release
Article
2009
Reporters without Borders
Reporters Without Borders reiterates its appeal for support by the international media and again urges the Israeli authorities to lift the ban on foreign media access to the Gaza Strip that has been i...
More than 3,500 petition Iran to free journalists, writers
Sources News Release
Article
2010
Sources
More than 3,500 concerned people from around the world are petitioning Iran#s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Sayed Ali Khamenei, to immediately release dozens of journalists writers, and bloggers currently...
My Last Talk with Gary Webb
"I Knew It Was the Truth and That's What Kept Me Going"
Thieme, Richard
Article
2014
Counterpunch.org
The 'Dark Alliance' series in the Mercury News came under fire by other news organizations, and the paper’s own investigation concluded the series did not meet its standards. Mr. Webb resigned a year ...
Narrative journalism
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Article
NBC News Pulls Veteran Reporter from Gaza After Witnessing Israeli Attack on Children
Greenwald, Glenn
Article
2014
The Intercept
Ayman Mohyeldin, the NBC News correspondent who personally witnessed yesterday’s killing by Israel of four Palestinian boys on a Gazan beach and who has received widespread praise for his brave and in...
Nepalese journalist and women's rights activist brutally murdered
Sources News Release
Article
2009
Uma Singh, a Nepalese journalist and human rights activist who worked for the Janakpur Today Daily and Radio Today FM was brutually murdered on January 11.
Never Forget You Have Only One Boss: the Truth
Maier, Thomas
Article
2013
ICIJ
Find subjects where you can break new ground. Record key interviews on video or audio. And remember that a lot of your own faults can be overcome by sheer reporting effort. Stellar tips for investigat...
New Journalism
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Article
Nieman Reports: What’s the difference between activism and journalism?
Simon, Joel
Article
2015
Pacific Media Centre
As technology changes how news is gathered and delivered, should journalism continue to be sharply distinguished from activism and other kinds of free speech? An extract by Joel Simon from his new boo...
Nine essential tools from ICIJ's data journalism and programming experts
Kubzansky, Caroline
Article
2018
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
A look at the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists' favorite data journalism tools, including: spreadsheets, Datawrapper, Jupyter Notebook, OpenRefine, Python and R, Talend Studio, SQ...
No visa for German journalist who wants to base himself in New Delhi
Sources News Release
Article
2009
Reporters without Borders
Reporters Without Borders urges the Indian government to issue a press visa to Hasnain Kazim, a German journalist of Indian origin, so that he can base himself in India as the German weekly Der Spiege...
Non-profit journalism
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Article
1,000 Days of Syria – Turning War Journalism into a Game
Parkin, Simon
Article
2014
The Guardian
How an American journalist is attempting to tell the story of Syria’s conflict through an online adventure game.
Online Journalism
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Article
A definition and discussion of Online Journalism from Wikipedia.
Online Survival Kit
Article
2013
Reporters Without Borders
This Online Survival Kit offers practical tools, advice and techniques that teach you how to circumvent censorship and to secure yo communications and data. This handbook will gradually be unveiled ov...
'Only I and my paper were prosecuted'
Journalist who exposed Turkey's hospitality for jihadists
Article
2015
rt.com
Jihad fighters are treated in Turkey with state complicity; Journalist Dogu Eroglu of the opposition daily BirGun (One Day) was prosecuted.
Ordeal continues for journalists detained in Egypt
Sources News Release
Article
2014
Reporters without Borders
Reporters Without Borders condemns yesterday's announcement by the Egyptian authorities that they are extending the provisional detention of three Al-Jazeera journalists for another 15 days.
Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - February 26, 2015
Ukraine
Diemer, Ulli (editor); Khan, Tahmid (production)
Serial Publication (Periodical)
2015
Connexions
Ukraine is spotlighted in this issue of Other Voices, with several articles on the events of the past year, from the overthrow of the government, to the rise of the far right, the armed conflict in th...
Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - December 20, 2016
Fake News
Diemer, Ulli (ed.)
Serial Publication (Periodical)
2016
Connexions
"Fake news" is the latest mania to convulse the mainstream media. All at once, we're being subjected to an outbreak of hand-wringing articles and commentary about obscure websites which are supposedly...
Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - December 17, 2017
Collective Memory and Cultural Amnesia
Diemer, Ulli
Serial Publication (Periodical)
2017
Connexions
Our society is obsessed with the short-term present. It devalues memory and the past. But there are those who do remember, and who work to preserve and share our collective memory. But they have to co...
'Our Only Fear Was That He Might Pull His Punches' - BBC Caught Manipulating The News
Article
2016
Media Lens
The position of BBC political editor plays an important role in this propaganda system. His or her function is essentially to tell the public what leading politicians say or even 'think'. It is certai...
Participants at IFEX General Meeting demand action
Sources News Release
Article
2009
International Freedom of Expression eXchange
Free expression advocates from around the world gathered this week in Oslo, Norway for the General Meeting (GM) of the International Freedom of Expression eXchange (IFEX).
The Peace Journalism Option
Article
1997
POIESIS
The Peace Journalism Option represents the findings of the Conflict and Peace Journalism summer school which took place at Taplow Court in Buckinghamshire, UK, over the week of August 25-29 1997. Part...
PEN Honduras appeals to Supreme Court in final attempt to halt ban on practising journalism
Article
2014
pen-international.org
Journalist and founding member of PEN Honduras, Julio Ernesto Alvarado, is appearing along with other journalists and PEN Honduras members before the Constitutional Section of the Supreme Court of the...
The Petulant Entitlement Syndrome of Journalists
Greenwald, Glenn
Article
2015
The Intercept
Jonathan Chait’s denunciation of the "PC language police" provoked intense reaction: much criticism from liberals and praise from conservatives.
Police Shootings, Helicopter Crashes and Bystanders With Cameras: Weighing the Rights of Accidental Journalists'
Jansen, Nani
Article
2015
Global Voices
Accidental Journalist are everyday people who stumble across something news-worthy. Most commonly, these accidental journalists report on those who abuse their power.
Political journalism
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Article
Press freedom activist badly beaten in Colombo, hospitalised
Sources News Release
Article
2009
Reporters without Borders
Reporters Without Borders is outraged by an assault on Poddala Jayantha, the secretary-general of the Sri Lanka Working Journalists Association (SLWJA), the country's leading journalists organisation.
Press Freedom Under Fire in South Asia, 2008-09
Sources News Release
Article
2009
International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) & South Asia Media Solidarity
The seventh annual report on press freedom in South Asia documents alarming trends in working conditions for journalists.
Reporter
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Article
A reporter is a type of journalist who researches and presents information in certain types of mass media. Reporters gather their information in a variety of ways, including tips, press releases, sour...
A Reporter's Field Guide
Article
2006
The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
What is the extent of the right to gather news? The question arises on a daily basis for journalists around the country: reporters and photographers are told by police that they cannot enter a crime s...
A Reporter's mindset
Rothstein, Al
Article
1999
Sources
Remember that reporters have a job to do. If you help the reporter, you are really helping yourself.
Reporters Without Borders publishes a first Guide for exiled journalists
Sources News Release
Article
2009
Reporters Without Borders
Reporters Without Borders marked World Refugee Day by publishing a guide for journalists driven into exile, to provide them with information about the procedures and potential obstacles in seeking asy...
Reporting Gender Based Violence
A Handbook for Journalists
Article
2009
Inter Press Service (IPS)
Violence Against Women has presented particular challenges to the media and to society because of the way it has been consigned to the "private" sphere -- dampening public discussion and stifling medi...
Reuters photographer begins second year in US military detention
Sources News Release
Article
2009
Reporters without Borders
Reporters Without Borders condemns the continuing American refusal to release Reuters photographer Ibrahim Jassam, who today begins his second year of detention by the US military in Iraq.
Roxana Saberi finally freed
Sources News Release
Article
2009
Reporters without Borders
Reporters Without Borders hails todayâ##s release of Iranian-American journalist.
Rupert's Empire of Slime
Murdoch's Knife in the Heart of Journalism
Landau, Saul
Article
2011
CounterPunch
In the name of freedom of the press Rupert’s Fox News and commentators spew verbal venom on notions that smack of socialist, pink or liberal thought – like taxing billionaires and regulating their cor...
Seeding Data Journalism in Panama
Crucianelli, Sandra
Article
2014
International Center for Journalists
Journalist talks about a need for data-driven journalists. She highlights her experience teaching teams how to do this in Panama in time for the Panama elections.
Self-Censored Questions by Career Questioners
Nader, Ralph
Article
2017
CounterPunch
I've always been intrigued by the major questions not asked by reporters at press conferences, not asked by legislators at public hearings or even the questions citizens at town meetings don't ask pub...
Seymour Hersh Blasts Media for Uncritically Promoting Russian Hacking Story
Scahill, Jeremy
Article
2017
The Intercept
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh said in an interview that he does not believe the U.S. intelligence community proved its case that President Vladimir Putin directed a hacking campaign ...
Shadows of Liberty
Tremblay, Jean-Philippe
Film
2012
Examines the new media monopoly by corporations in America and the public battle for truth and democracy.
Sources gives you powerful tools to help you stand out from the crowd
Article
2009
Sources
An overview of how you can use SOURCES to amplify your message. SOURCES is a media service that connects journalists, editors, writers, producers and researchers with the sources they need for their ...
The Sources HotLink
Website
1996
Sources
A website and newsletter dealing with media relations strategies.
The Sources Select Online Story
Zwicker, Barrie
Article
1995
Sources
In SOURCES SELECT Online (SSO) we attempt to provide true diversity: access to people in organizations large and small, for-profit and not-for-profit, from low-tech to high-tech, long-established to j...
The SOURCES SELECT Online Story
Zwicker, Barrie
Article
Sources
A history and overview of SOURCES SELECT ONLINE, the online information resource for journalists, editors, and writers.
Sports journalism
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Article
The State of the News Media
LaVigne, Mark
Article
2003
Sources
Journalists are older, smarter, generally more educated, and usually more cynical than their predecessors. Cynicism often breeds distrust making the current generation of news reporters more suspiciou...
Survival Strategies for Local Journalism
Vara, Vauhini
Article
2015
The New Yorker
In an attempt to draw readers and advertisers, the San Francisco Chronicle began printing on high-quality glossy paper in November, 2009. Its circulation had dropped by more than fifty per cent in les...
Thailand: Call for moratorium on prosecutions for criticising the King, dialogue on Internet freedom
Sources News Release
Article
2009
Reporters Without Borders joined by 31 other organisations in a call for moratorium on prosecutions for criticising the King, dialogue on Internet freedom.
30 Days For Freedom
Website
2014
World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers
30 Days for Freedom highlights the plight of jailed journalists worldwide by focusing on 30 individuals currently imprisoned because of their work.
Traffic reporting
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Article
Two Azeri journalists imprisoned, a third sentenced
Sources News Release
Article
2009
Committee to Protect Journalists
The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the prison sentences given to journalists at the weekly newspaper Nota on defamation charges.
2009 Leaves One of Worst Records for Targeted Killings of Journalists, Says IFJ
Sources News Release
Article
2009
International Federation of Journalists
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today called for more action from governments and the United Nations to protect media as it announced a grim total of 137 journalists and media person...
UK: Has journalism become the "most exclusive middle-class profession"?
Article
2009
Press Gazette
A governmental cross-party investigation into social and professional mobility has concluded that journalism is the "most exclusive middle-class profession".
United Nations Security Council Resolution 1738
UN Security Council
Article
2006
Resolution 1738, adopted by the UN Security Council, protects journalists operating in conflict areas.
The U.S. Press and Repression in the Obama Era
A New Awakening or Political Theater?
Baraka, Amaju
Article
2013
Counter Punch
The Obama administration’s is expanding its use of executive powers to intimidate and crush dissent had turned its focus on the U.S. press.
Visual journalism
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Article
War by media and the triumph of propaganda
Pilger, John
Article
2014
The world is facing the prospect of major war, perhaps nuclear war -- with the United States clearly determined to isolate and provoke Russia and eventually China. This truth is being turned upside do...
Watchdog journalism
Connexipedia Article
Article
A type of investigative journalism. It refers to forms of activist journalism aimed at holding accountable public personalities and institutions whose functions impact social and political life.
We need to be told
Pilger, John
Article
2005
When journalists report propaganda instead of the truth, the consequences can be catastrophic - as one largely forgotten instance demonstrates.
What Does a Reporter Want?
Cowan, Kirsten
Article
2001
Sources
What does a reporter what when they interview you?
What is Objective Journalism?
Edwards, David
Article
2017
Media Lens
Despite objectivity being widely accepted as a norm in journalism, Edwards discusses how opinion and bias are still an inherent part of 'reporting the facts.'
Where News Itself is a Category
Ghosh, Surbir
Article
2008
Newswatch
Highlighting the various reasons for the decline of quality news, Subir Ghosh says when business interests hold sway over all others, the basic tenets of journalism fall by the wayside. However, if pe...
Where War Reporting Goes Wrong
A Diary of Four Wars
Cockburn, Patrick
Article
2013
CounterPunch
The four recent conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria have been propaganda wars in which newspaper, television and radio journalists played a central role. In all wars there is a difference ...
Who Is An Objective Journalist?
Agents of the Status Quo
Robertson, Ann; Leumer, Bill
Article
2013
CounterPunch
The false dichotomy between journalists and activists.
Why I quit my job as an investigations editor in Egypt
Allam, Hisham
Article
2013
ICIJ
Hisham Allam is an award-winning investigative reporter based in Cairo. He was an investigative editor for the El-Watan newspaper, but the recent crackdown on the Egyptian press has taken a toll on hi...
Wikileaks - The Smear and the Denial
Article
2010
Medialens
The Internet has revealed a chasm separating the corporate media from readers and viewers. Previously, the divide was hidden by the simple fact that journalists monopolised the means of mass communica...
Wild West Journalism
Outlaws, Cowpokes and a Eunuched Press
McKenna, Brian
Article
2010
CounterPunch
Journalism is not dead nor is anthropology. Both are undergoing seismic transformations while under attack from a neoliberal culture that devalues the public and disparages the truth.
Winners of Courage in Journalism Awards Announced
Sources News Release
Article
2009
International Womenâ##s Media Foundation
Iryna Khalip of Belarus, Agnes Taile of Cameroon and Jila Baniyaghoob of Iran win Courage in Journalism Awards from the International Womenâ##s Media Foundation. Amira Hass of Israel is Lifetime Achie...
Without Fear, Without Favor
The Future of Journalism
Avnery, Uri
Article
2013
CounterPunch
The Words “lifetime achievement” have a certain undertone. There is a hint that the work is finished.
The work of authentic journalists is the most important thing for social movements
How Mercedes Osuna became a rebel with a cause
Bonilla, Mayte G.
Article
2013
The Narco News Bulletin
Not an activist, social organizer nor a defender: Mercedes Osuna would rather define her work as human labor, something that she has dedicated an entire life to. She was born in a place were true word...
The Wrong Solution To The Wrong Problem
Malik, Kenan
Article
2012
What is it to have free press?
Yellow journalism
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Article

Sources Bookshelf

Access to Places
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
Book
1997
A guidebook intended to give reporters a "plan of attack" when access to newsworthy events has been unreasonably denied, and discusses legal restrictions that may be placed on reporters, as well as wh...
Behind the Headlines
A History of Investigative Journalism in Canada
Rosner, Cecil
Book
2008
Presents the exciting history of investigative journalism in Canada, an account spanning from the nation's earliest newspapers through to the present day.
Censored: The News That Didn't Make The News - And Why
The 1995 Project Censored Yearbook
Jensen, Carl, and Project Censored. Introduction by Michael Crichton. Cartoons by Tom Tomorrow.
Book
1996
Documenting how the U.S. mass media does a shabby job, deliberately or negligently withholding information of vital importance.
Communicating in Canada's Past
Essays in Media History
Allen, Gene; Robinson, Daniel J. (eds.)
Book
2009
Address sizable gaps in the literature on media history in Canada. Includes a substantial introduction to media history as a field of study and essays on a range of subjects, including print journalis...
Communication for and Against Democracy
Raboy, Marc and Bruck, Peter A. (ed.)
Book
1989
This anthology explores the circumstances in which communication serves at times as an instrument of repression and domination, and at others as a support for human emancipation.
Doing Public Journalism
Charity Arthur
Book
1995
The author argues that journalists should be responsible citizens who with "the power of the press empower others besides the press.
From Politics to Profit
The Commercialization of Canadian Daily Newspapers, 1890-1920
Sotiron, Minko
Book
1997
Analyzes the transformation of Canadian newspapers that occurred between 1890 and 1920 when daily newspapers slowly changed from political mouthpieces to a marketable industry.
George Orwell: A Life
Crick, Bernard
Book
1980
A biography of George Orwell.
Getting the Goods
Information in BC How to Find It, How to Use It
Oustonm, Rick
Book
1990
A guide to the basic sources of information -- the tools of the trade -- that all reporters, researchers and investigators rely on.
Hack
Home Truths about Foreign News
Harriman, Ed
Book
1989
This book is about HACKS - journalists, the men and women who fly into famines and wars and in a few days churn out stories telling the world what has been going on. It shows how HACKS work and the pr...
How to Interview
The Art of the Media Interview
McLaughlin, Paul
Book
1986
A guide to good interviewing.
Idea of Public Journalism
Glasser, Theodore L.
Book
1999
Discusses the strengths and weaknesses of public journalism, the movement aimed at getting the press to promote and improve, not merely report, the quality of public life.
In The News
The Practice of Media Relations in Canada
Carney, William Wray
Book
2002
Carney gives everyone, from student to seasoned practitioner, a thorough understanding of who the media are, how they work and how to approach them with stories.
Investigative Reporting
Anderson, David & Benjaminson, Peter
Book
1976
Explains the art and science of investigative reporting: how to decide on a subject, how to find and evaluate sources, how to approach and interview the sources and the subject of the investigation, h...
Journalism: A Very Short Introduction
Hargreaves, Ian
Book
2003
Ian Hargreaves discusses the history, development, future and ethics of journalism and describes journalists' relationship with the public.
Journalism of Outrage
Investigative Reporting and Agenda Building in America
Protess, David L.; Cook, Fay Lomax; Doppelt, Jack C.; Ettema, James S.; Gordon, Margaret T.
Book
1991
Examines the myths and misconceptions of investigative journalism and presents empirical research to support a model that challenges the classical theory.
Journalism: Truth or Dare?
Hargreaves, Ian
Book
2003
Ian Hargreaves discusses the history, development, future and ethics of journalism and describes journalists' relationship with the public. He focuses on the increase in journalism's influence and the...
Lies The Media Tell us
Winter, James
Book
2007
Outlines the extent to which the mainstream media is subject to its corporate publishers and advertisers.
Manufacturing Consent
The Political Economy of the Mass Media
Herman, Edward S.; Chomsky, Noam
Book
1988
Contrary to the usual image of the press and cantankerous, obstinate, and ubiquitious in its search for truth, Herman and Chomsky depict how an underlying elite consensus largely structures all facets...
Memoirs of a Media Maverick
Richardson, Boyce
Book
2003
An engaging memoir of a radical socialist who also was a recognized journalist, writer, and filmmaker.
Merchants of Doubt
How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
Oreskes, Naomi; Conway, Erik M.
Book
2010
Investigative reportage on how private interests and lobbies in America use hired gun scientists to spread doubt and misinformation. The media's binary understanding of balanced repoting has given the...
The Missing News
Filters and Blind Spots in Canada's Press
Hackett, Robert A.; Gruneau, Richard; with Donald Gutstein, Timothy A. Gibson and Newswatch Canada
Book
2000
Asks a number of questions, including: How well do the news media filter reality, for what purposes, through what processes and in whose interests? How do newspapers and TV stations choose what news i...
Mixed Media, Mixed Messages
Persky, Stan
Book
1991
This is a collection of columns by Vancouver Sun columnist Persky. Specifically, Persky tries to address moral and philosophical questions raised by media practices.
Newspeak in the 21st Century
Edwards, David; Cromwell, David
Book
2009
Revealing the lethal bias in 'balanced' reporting.
The Silent Revolution
Media, Democracy, and the Free Trade Debate
Winter, James P.
Book
1990
Sources.com
Portal for Journalists and Writers - The directory for reporters, writers, editors and researchers
Website
1977
Sources is an information portal for journalists, freelance writers, news editors, authors, researchers and journalism students -- and a resource for organizations, institutions, businesses, and ind...
Sources Select Resources
Reviews and information about print and online resources for journalists and researchers
Website
1977
Reviews and information about print and online resources for journalists and researchers.
Spinwars
Politics and New Media
Fox, Bill
Book
1999
An examination of media manipulation in late 20th Century North American politics.
Submersion Journalism
Reporting in the Radical First Person from Harper's Magazine
Wasik, Bill (Ed.)
Book
2008
Stories from journalists integrating into the cultures they are reporting on.
Sustaining Democracy?
Journalism and the Politics of Objectivity
Hackett, Robert A.; Zhao, Yuezhi
Book
1998
Tthe authors argue that "the regime of objectivity" should give way to a journalism aimed at sustaining democracy.
Telling the Truth
Socialist Register 2006
Panitch, Leo; Keys, Colin (eds.)
Book
2005
A collection of essays that examines the difficulties of illuminating the degenerative and secretive nature of public life.
Unreliable Sources
A Guide to Detecting Bias in the New Media
Lee, Martin A.; Solomon, Norman
Book
1992
Lee and Solomon argue that American news media censor actual current events. The reason being is that there is pressure from the Government and Corporations. The public must challenge the facts of bot...
War, Peace and the Media
Zwicker, Barrie
Book
1983
Zwicker argues that press coverage of the USSR is "profoundly uninformative, a journalistic yawn that is helping us sleepwalk toward the biggest slumber of all time: nuclear war."
The Woman's Page
Journalism and Rhetoric in Early Canada
Fiamengo, Janice
Book
2008
A detailed study of these six women and their respective works: Agnes Maule Machar, Sara Jeanette Duncan, E. Pauline Johnson, Kathleen Blake Coleman, Flora MacDonald Denison and Nellie L. McClung. Dem...
Yesterday's News
Why Canada's Daily Newspapers are Failing Us
Miller John
Book
1998
Illuminates the decline of print journalism, suggests reasons for this decline and proposes solutions to reverse this downward trend.

Media

Antigonish Review
Poetry, fiction, reviews and critical articles.
Convergence Magazine
News and issues about media written and published by students.
Facts & Opinions
An online journal of reporting and analysis in words and pictures, by master journalists. Their mandate is to conduct journalism through quality and integrity, our interests free-range: Journalism wit...
Media
Reports on journalism and media concerns.
Ryerson Review of Journalism
Critical coverage of the practice and malpractice of journalism in Canada.


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