The world is watching Citizen Journalism

Everybody in the "citizen journalism neighborhood is sitting bolt-upright these days. Traditional newspapers, broadcasters, news service providers (like Reuters, et al) are staring at sites like Newsvine and NowPublic, as well as at Yahoo's You Witness News and CNN's...

A Newspaper Chain Sees Its Future, And It's Online and Hyper-Local

They call them "mojos" - mobile journalists who work out of their cars and file for the Gannett string of newspapers."FORT MYERS, Fla. -- Could this be the future of newspapering? Darkness falls on a chilly Winn-Dixie parking lot in a dodgy part of North Fort Myers just...

Pope says Christians, Muslims part of same family; evangelicals disagree

Maybe Pope Benedict XVI had to say this, or maybe it's part of a larger strategy only Vatican insiders can parse. But in speaking to a very prominent evangelical, Rev. Franklin Graham (son of Billy Graham and spiritual successor to his father's evangelical establishment)...

New Survey: Iraqis Want a Speedy U.S. Exit -- and Back Attacks on Our Forces

Editor and Publisher is a well-respected trade mag for the newspapering industry, and its feed of stories dealing with "the press" is informative and authoritative. It's often quoted in journalism reviews and by journalists themselves.This item is quite interesting - showing...

Cuba releases jailed journalist after 16 months in jail

Reporters Without Borders is a very interesting group and does very well at publicizing the plight of journalists who are killed or imprisoned worldwide. But there is another side to this organization - that it is a front for the US government.You can read that story...