Opportunities
Resources
Media News / Commentary
- Posted May 14, 2012
- Journalist Expelled From China Reflects on Experience
-
After filing 400 stories from China, reporter Melissa Chan never thought she'd wind up in the headlines herself.
Chan returned to Southern California last week as the first accredited foreign correspondent to be expelled from China in 14 years, an act that sparked a flurry of news reports and expressions of solidarity from fellow journalists.
Chan, who was the sole Al Jazeera English correspondent in China, said she knew she was on shaky ground for most of this year.
She had been working on month-by-month credentials since January, when the government refused a routine visa-renewal request. Ordinarily, journalists are granted year-long credentials, but Chan is believed to be the first foreign correspondent to be given temporary papers.
- Posted May 10, 2012
- Salt Lake Tribune Cuts Nine From Newsroom Staff
-
The Salt Lake Tribune on Wednesday laid off nine newsroom employees as it continues to cope with weak advertising revenue and falling print circulation.
The layoffs, 7.5 percent of the newsroom staff, reduce the number of journalists employed at Utah’s largest newspaper to 119 people, Deputy Editor Tim Fitzpatrick said. Five of those laid off were assigned to the paper’s copy desk. Four worked at other duties in the newsroom.
"We are sorry to see them go," Editor Nancy Conway said in a message to staffers. "These folks, like everyone in the newsroom, have contributed to the strength of The Salt Lake Tribune and served readers all across the state of Utah.
- Posted May 07, 2012
- ‘60 Minutes’ Gets Younger, and Its Viewers Do Too
-
The oldest newsmagazine on television, “60 Minutes,” might have figured out how to halt the aging process. Purposefully but almost imperceptibly, the CBS News program, the most popular of its genre, has become younger in recent years. Stalwarts like Steve Kroft and Lesley Stahl have been joined by new contributors like Lara Logan and Anderson Cooper. And the program has embraced the Web to a degree that some of its older viewers have not, selling an iPad app on iTunes and promoting a weekly online show, “Overtime.” After televising an hourlong “60 Minutes” tribute to Mike Wallace, a founding correspondent who died last month, CBS proudly noted in a news release that “ ‘Mike Wallace’ was a worldwide trending topic on Twitter Sunday night.”
Spotlight
 |
How the Media Covered the 2012 Primary Campaign
As the 2012 presidential race shifts from the GOP primary battle to the general election matchup between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama, a new PEJ study of the primary campaign coverage reveals what the public has been told about the two candidates by the media. Read the Full Story
.Industry Events
- Diversity Events
- April 12-14, New Orleans, LA -- American Copy Editors Society (ACES) 2012 annual conference
- April 13, Lexington, KY -- Reynolds Center: Uncovering the Best Local Business Stories
- April 13-14, Indianapolis, IN -- Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) Region 5 Spring Conference
- April 16, Berkeley, CA -- Knight Program in Science Journalism Panel Discussion -- Does Narrative Journalism Have a Future Online?
- April 18 to May 16, Any City, A -- Freelance Writing Course, sponsored by JournalismJobs.com and freelance editor Eric Butterman -- 5-week online course on freelance pitching and writing.
- June 26-28, All Locations, US -- Demystifying Economics for Business Journalists -- Free Online Webinar
- Click here to e-mail us your event listing. Listings are free.