Sources Experts & Spokespersons
Article 19ARTICLE 19, a human rights pioneer, defends and promotes freedom of expression and freedom of information all over the world.
Censorship Kills. It starves and it represses. It denies people access to information essenti...
Allan Bonner Communications Management Inc.Dispute Resolution--Media--Presentation
Dr. Bonner is regularly asked to comment on current issues, and has recently been interviewed by BBC News, The National, Power and Politics, The New York Times, Power Pl...
ibiblio.orgThe public's library and digital archive.
Home to one of the largest "collections of collections" on the Internet, ibiblio.org is a conservancy of freely available information, including software, music, literature, art...
Media Names & NumbersPublished by Sources, Media Names & Numbers is a comprehensive Canadian media directory - in the form of a searchable database as well as a print directory/media list - including television and radio networks, sta...
SourcesSources specializes in collecting, indexing and disseminating information to help journalists, editors and researchers quickly reach articulate experts and spokespersons who can provide background information and comment...
Sources News ReleasesSources specializes in getting the news media to call you when they need an expert or spokesperson to interview. Sources can also help you reach the media with your message when your organization or company has news rele...
Barrie ZwickerAuthor, producer and social and political activist Barrie Zwicker has specialized in media criticism since 1970. Since the events of 9/11 he has become a leader in the "9/11Truth movement." Millions of people around the ...
New Releases
African Journalists leaders summit outlines strategies to roll back impunity and defend journalists' rights2009-06-30
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.
A climate of fear endangers press freedom2009-02-14
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 journalist2009-09-03
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.
Ethics and Gender: Equality in the newsroom, Brussels Declaration2009-06-02
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...
France: EFJ Concerned by Threats against Journalists after TV Report on Palestine2011-10-14
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...
IFEX members call for protection for women journalists and activists to mark day against violence2009-11-25
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.
IFJ and EFJ Slam Head of Russian Investigative Committee over Threats to Senior Journalist2012-06-14
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 Journalists2009-07-07
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 Blasts Authorities over Failure to Stop Killings of Journalists after Veteran Murder in Mexico2009-05-28
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 Inquiry Into Lasantha's Murder2009-05-12
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 Pakistan2010-09-21
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 Colombia2009-06-11
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 Mexico2010-09-21
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 Honduras2010-03-17
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 Leone2009-02-19
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 Conference: Ethics and Gender: Equality in the newsroom2009-05-28
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 Defending Journalists in Palestine and Israel2009-02-13
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 Highlights Media Safety Crisis at International Conference on Somalia in UK2011-02-08
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 Launches Booklet to Engage Media Professionals in Fight Against Gender Discrimination2009-03-06
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 Journalists2009-05-26
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 Reports Heavy Media Loss to Violence after 97 Journalists Died in 20102011-01-11
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 Welcomes New Vintu Partnership to Assist Stricken Media Families2009-05-02
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 Council2012-09-28
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 Journalist2009-10-27
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 Egypt2009-04-24
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.
IPS Africa Launches Reporting Gender-Based Violence Handbook2010-01-03
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 media2009-05-20
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 Jerusalem2009-05-12
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 government openly threatens journalists planning to sail with Gaza flotilla2011-06-27
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 internationally2010-04-06
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 Welcome European Call to Review Anti-Terrorism Laws2009-06-01
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...
Mexican journalist who covered police is abducted and killed2009-05-27
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.
More than 3,500 petition Iran to free journalists, writers2010-04-06
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...
No visa for German journalist who wants to base himself in New Delhi2009-09-03
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...
Participants at IFEX General Meeting demand action2009-06-03
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, hospitalised2009-06-02
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, 2008-092009-05-02
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.
Reporters Without Borders publishes a first Guide for exiled journalists2009-06-20
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 detention2009-09-03
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 freed2009-05-12
Reporters without Borders
Reporters Without Borders hails todayâ##s release of Iranian-American journalist.
Safety and Justice: Protecting Journalists in the Middle East and the Arab World2012-04-12
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 IFJ2009-06-10
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.
Thailand: Call for moratorium on prosecutions for criticising the King, dialogue on Internet freedom2009-04-28
Reporters Without Borders joined by 31 other organisations in a call for moratorium on prosecutions for criticising the King, dialogue on Internet freedom.
Two Azeri journalists imprisoned, a third sentenced2009-10-12
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 News2009-12-02
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 the #p...
2009 Leaves One of Worst Records for Targeted Killings of Journalists, Says IFJ2009-12-31
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 Journalism2012-12-02
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 Announced2009-10-23
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...
Sources Select Resources
Advocacy JournalismConnexipedia 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' rightsSources 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 interviewRothstein, Al
Article
1999
Sources
What to do after being interviewed by a reporter.
And Then They Came For MeFinal 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.
Arts JournalismSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Article
Authentic journalism: weapon of the peopleGiordano, 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.
Beyond the drossPilger, John; Platt, Steve
Article
2010
Red Pepper
Pilger and Platt discuss the state of journalism.
Beyond the drossPilger, John; Platt, Steve
Article
2010
Red Pepper
Pilger and Platt discuss the craft of journalism.
Broadcast journalismSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Article
Brothers-in-Arms: Capitalism and Corporate JournalismArticle
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 JournalismMedia 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 journalismSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Article
Canwest latest 'media giant' to exploit news operationsFillmore, 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...
Catastrophes on CameraWhy 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...
Citizen journalismConnexipedia Article
Article
Citizens' Bill of Journalism RightsWhat 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 JournalismConnexipedia Article
Article
A climate of fear endangers press freedomArticle
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...
ColumnistSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Article
Coming Attraction: Carleton Journalism ReviewNews Release - June 1977
Article
1977
July 1977 will see the appearance of a new and exciting Canadian journalism review: the Carleton Journalism Review.
Community JournalismConnexipedia Article
Article
CPJ award goes to jailed Sri Lankan journalistSources 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.
The Dangers of Embedded JournalismA Distorted View of War
Cockburn, Patrick
Article
2010
CounterPunch
DocufictionSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Article
EFJ Policy Document on Protection of JournalistsArticle
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 JournalismWhat 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 storyWhen 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 journalismSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Article
Environmental journalismConnexipedia 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 DeclarationSources News Release
Article
2009
International Federation of Journalists
Brussels Declaraton on Ethics and Gender: Equality in the newsroom.
Eyes With LegsDinh, 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 ...
Fashion journalismSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Article
Feature storySources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Article
A piece of journalistic writing that covers a particular issue in-depth.
Frequently Asked Questions about SourcesArticle
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...
Getting the Balance RightGender Equality in Journalism
Article
2009
International Federation of Journalists
Gender equality in journalism.
Getting your story into the mediaArticle
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...
Gonzo journalismSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Article
Guidelines for exiled journalistsArticle
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.
Helping you reach the mediaHow Sources can help you get more and better media coverage
Article
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 journalismSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Article
How I Became a “Recovering Documentary Filmmaker” and Learned to Reach a Wider PublicThe 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 HaitiHerz, Ansel
Article
2010
Mediahacker
How to make sure that you stick to the tried and proven cliches.
I.F. Stone: A Wonderful PariahZwicker, Barrie
Article
1989
Canadian Dimension
IFEX members call for protection for women journalists and activists to mark day against violenceSources 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 MexicoSources 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 MurderSources 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 ColombiaSources 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 HondurasSources 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 LeoneSources 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 Conference: Ethics and Gender: Equality in the newsroomSources 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 IsraelSources 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 Launches Booklet to Engage Media Professionals in Fight Against Gender DiscriminationSources 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 JournalistsSources 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 Welcomes New Vintu Partnership to Assist Stricken Media FamiliesSources 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 EgyptSources 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 MovementsSicilia, 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...
IPS Africa Launches Reporting Gender-Based Violence HandbookSources 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 mediaSources 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 punishedVisser, 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 JerusalemSources 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 DecemberArticle
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 internationallySources 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...
JournalismSources 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 WarJohn 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 standardsSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Article
Journalism genresSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Article
Journalism is a profession, not a coverTabar, 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 schoolSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Article
Journalism & Writing Topic Index in Sources Directory of ExpertsSpokespersons, 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.
Journalists assaulted and censoredArticle
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 1992Article
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 CoverageArticle
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 LawsSources 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...
Justice in the News: A Response to the targetting of media in GazaArticle
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 CorporationsIndian 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 journalistsArticle
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...
A memorial to killed journalists, a call to actionArticle
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 killedSources 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.
More than 3,500 petition Iran to free journalists, writersSources 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...
Narrative journalismSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Article
New JournalismSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Article
No visa for German journalist who wants to base himself in New DelhiSources 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 journalismSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Article
Online JournalismSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Article
A definition and discussion of Online Journalism from Wikipedia.
Participants at IFEX General Meeting demand actionSources 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 OptionArticle
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...
Political journalismSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Article
Press freedom activist badly beaten in Colombo, hospitalisedSources 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, 2008-09Sources 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.
ReporterSources 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 GuideArticle
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 mindsetRothstein, 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 journalistsSources 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 ViolenceA 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 detentionSources 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 freedSources News Release
Article
2009
Reporters without Borders
Reporters Without Borders hails todayâ##s release of Iranian-American journalist.
Rupert's Empire of SlimeMurdoch'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...
Shadows of LibertyTremblay, Jean-Philippe
Film/Video
2012
Docfactory
Examines the new media monopoly by corporations in America versus the public battle for truth and democracy.
Sources gives you powerful tools to help you stand out from the crowdArticle
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 HotLinkWebsite
1996
Sources
A website and newsletter dealing with media relations strategies.
The Sources Select Online StoryZwicker, 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...
Sports journalismSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Article
The State of the News MediaLaVigne, 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...
Thailand: Call for moratorium on prosecutions for criticising the King, dialogue on Internet freedomSources 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.
Traffic reportingSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Article
Two Azeri journalists imprisoned, a third sentencedSources 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 IFJSources 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 1738UN Security Council
Article
2006
Resolution 1738, adopted by the UN Security Council, protects journalists operating in conflict areas.
Visual journalismSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Article
Watchdog journalismConnexipedia 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 toldPilger, 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?
Where News Itself is a CategoryGhosh, 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...
Wikileaks - The Smear and the DenialArticle
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 JournalismOutlaws, 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 AnnouncedSources 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...
The Wrong Solution To The Wrong Problem Malik, Kenan
Article
2012
What is it to have free press?
Yellow journalismSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Article
Sources Bookshelf
Access to PlacesReporters 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 HeadlinesA 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 WhyThe 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 PastEssays 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...
Doing Public JournalismCharity 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 ProfitThe 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.
Getting the GoodsInformation 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.
How to InterviewThe Art of the Media Interview
McLaughlin, Paul
Book
1986
A guide to good interviewing.
Idea of Public JournalismGlasser, 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 NewsThe 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 ReportingAnderson, 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 IntroductionHargreaves, Ian
Book
2003
Ian Hargreaves discusses the history, development, future and ethics of journalism and describes journalists' relationship with the public.
Journalism of OutrageInvestigative 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 ConsentThe 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 MaverickRichardson, Boyce
Book
2003
An engaging memoir of a radical socialist who also was a recognized journalist, writer, and filmmaker.
Merchants of DoubtHow 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 NewsFilters 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 MessagesPersky, 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 CenturyEdwards, David; Cromwell, David
Book
2009
Revealing the lethal bias in 'balanced' reporting.
Sources.comPortal 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 ResourcesReviews 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.
SpinwarsPolitics and New Media
Fox, Bill
Book
1999
An examination of media manipulation in late 20th Century North American politics.
Submersion JournalismReporting 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
Tthe authors argue that "the regime of objectivity" should give way to a journalism aimed at sustaining democracy.
Telling the TruthSocialist 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 SourcesA 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 MediaZwicker, 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 PageJournalism 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 NewsWhy 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.
MediaReports on journalism and media concerns.
Sources Calendar
