29 July 2010, 8:30 am
Early morning rain shower in Lafayette, La., by D. Jones.... Read More »
29 July 2010, 6:54 am
A look at the secretive whistle-blowing website... Read More »
29 July 2010, 3:50 am
I have been taken to task for a posting I put up here eight days ago on an article by Cardiff University's Andy Williams about the state of the newspapers run by Media Wales , a division of Trinity Mirror . David Higgerson argues that journalism bloggers (well, two of us - me and Press Gazette edito... Read More »
29 July 2010, 3:15 am
That WikiLeaks went to the press with the Afghanistan war logs shows old-fashioned news organisations still have a role to play Of all the questions raised by the Afghanistan war logs , perhaps the most intriguing is this: why would an organisation as independent-minded and disdainful of the traditi... Read More »
28 July 2010, 11:31 pm
BARNAUL, Siberia, Russia Imagine flying 5,000 miles with a story in your heart to tell about a student citizen journalism project on the U.S. Senate race in Kentucky. UK journalism professor Buck Ryan not only did that, he ended up being photographed with a picture of his freshman teaching assistan... Read More »
28 July 2010, 10:36 pm
The Columbia Journalism Review has a really interesting piece up about WikiLeaks's latest news coup and how it all came to pass. WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange , is a famously independent and skittish entity, and has never to my knowledge coordinated with a news organization. So how exact... Read More »
28 July 2010, 5:37 pm
One of the first major topics I covered at the human resources magazine where I started my journalism career was the enactment of the federal Americans with Disabilities Act, or ADA.... Read More »
28 July 2010, 4:23 pm
May I say that Christina Patterson's Gordon Brown interview (26 July) really was superb, not only a joy to read as a delightfully quirky personal view and an excellent piece of journalism, but also sympathetic, and extremely fascinating in capturing the contradictions to Brown's personality.... Read More »
28 July 2010, 8:00 am
Cloning has been a controversial issue since German embryologist Hans Spemann first made a pair of adorable, genetically identical salamander twins out of a single egg, way back in nineteen-dickety-two.... Read More »
27 July 2010, 9:32 pm
Jack Rabid can rattle off band names like letters of the alphabet. For 30 years, he has been covering independent music as the founder of the magazine The Big Takeover, which started as a one-page newsletter when he was a skinny teenager running around the East Village.Named after a...... Read More »