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Kenya : Why Editors Might Soon Be Farming Goats and Yams (AllAfrica.com)

10 March 2010, 3:44 pm

On March 19 and 20, the Nation Media Group and the Africa Media Initiative will hold easily the most high profile African media conference ever witnessed on this fair continent.... Read More »

Schaffer: News Consumers Need Watch Dogs & Guide Dogs (Poynter Institute)

10 March 2010, 2:36 pm

Schaffer said that she has documented $142 million in grants to news start-up projects from individuals and foundations since 2005. That squares with my take that the new ventures are growing explosively, but do not come close yet to picking up the slack from downsized newsrooms.... Read More »

Iran tops list of jailers of journalists in world (AP via Yahoo! News)

10 March 2010, 11:30 am

Journalists have become a prime target in an Iranian government crackdown on the opposition following last June's disputed presidential election, with 52 of them currently held — making Iran the top jailer of journalists in the world, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists.... Read More »

Arab print media expected to grow (Middle East Online)

10 March 2010, 9:34 am

Study: Arab print media weather financial crunch better than western counterparts.... Read More »

OJR: The Online Journalism Review (Online Journalism Review)

10 March 2010, 7:26 am

Following my talk in Singapore last month, I'd like to delve deeper into the question about what newspaper publishers outside the United States can do to avoid the market meltdown that's already claimed a few papers in the U.S.... and endangers the survival of many more.... Read More »

Authors discuss future of journalism (The Columbia Chronicle)

10 March 2010, 3:19 am

With Bankrupt newspapers and an abundance of job losses among reporters, most people have turned to the Internet or blogs to get their daily news. But two men are determined to change that and save the dying journalism industry. The two authors of “The Death and Life of American Journalism” came... Read More »

Get All Your Media News in One Place (ISEDB)

9 March 2010, 10:37 am

There is quite a bit of media news to keep up with these days, what with the constant threat of local newspapers become a thing of the 20th century, new pay models being introduced by major online news sites like the Wall Street Journal, just to keep afloat, online video becoming the new “televisi... Read More »

PBS “NewsHour Extra” Receives $300,000 Grant (Television Broadcast)

9 March 2010, 9:52 am

WASHINGTON: The PBS NewsHour Extra announced today that it has received a $300,000 grant from Corp. for Public Broadcasting for the Student Reporting Lab, a new journalism project in six schools throughout the country.... Read More »

Jonathan Weiler: Liberal Media Again Serves Republican Interests (The Huffington Post)

9 March 2010, 8:27 am

That Republicans lie and adopt positions that directly contradict positions they've previously adopted. is bad enough. Much worse is the liberal media treating falsehoods as if they're merely just a "side" in a debate about politics.... Read More »

Social media is big business – Small, medium-sized firms double use of new tools (Local Tech Wire)

5 March 2010, 4:49 am

Editor’s note: Peter Wylie is a researcher at Three Ships Media , a social media marketing company in Raleigh, N.C. He was previously an editor for an online business journalism company in Washington, D.C. He graduated with degrees in Journalism and English from the University of North Carolina at... Read More »

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