New York Times Makes Change At Top
By Alana Semuels and James Rainey, Los Angeles Times NEW YORK — Just three years into her tenure, the first female editor of The New York Times was forced out because of what the ...
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Jayson Blair And All The Lies Not Fit To Print
Why did you do it? The movie opens with that question. In response, Jayson Blair makes a joke. "This one again," he mutters, rolling his eyes in mock consternation at the predicta ...
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Global Press Freedom Slips To Decade Low
Washington (AFP) - World press freedom has hit its lowest level in a decade after a regression in Egypt, Turkey and Ukraine, and U.S. efforts to curb national security reporting, ...
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Weekend Reader: ‘The Watchdog That Didn’t Bark: The Financial Crisis And The Disappearance Of Investigative Journalism’
Today the Weekend Reader brings you The Watchdog that Didn't Bark: The Financial Crisis and the Disappearance of Investigative Journalism by Dean Starkman, editor of the Columbia ...
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Hong Kong Journalist Stabbed Amid Concerns Of Eroding Media Freedoms
By Julie Makinen, Los Angeles Times BEIJING — A recently dismissed Hong Kong newspaper editor was hospitalized in critical condition Wednesday after assailants stabbed him in the ...
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Veteran U.S. Newsman Brokaw Has Cancer
Los Angeles (AFP) - The veteran U.S. television journalist Tom Brokaw said he has been diagnosed with cancer, but doctors are encouraged by his progress. The NBC News special corr ...
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Stephen Glass Is Too Crooked For The Law
I said there was a Society of Men among us, bred up from their Youth in the Art of proving by words multiplied for the Purpose, that White is Black, and Black is White, according ...
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National Review Is In Deep Trouble
The late William F. Buckley's journalistic baby, National Review, is in deep legal trouble. This week it asked subscribers like me for donations to pay lawyers fending off a libel ...
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New York Times Reporter Leaves China After Visa Denial
Beijing (AFP) - A New York Times reporter left Beijing Thursday after authorities did not grant him a visa, in a case that comes as Chinese authorities ratchet up pressure on fore ...
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Top Exec Out In Shakeup At Murdoch’s Dow Jones
New York (AFP) - The top executive at Wall Street Journal publisher Dow Jones & Co. is leaving and a veteran British journalist will take over until a successor is chosen, it ...
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