Media
Complaint Adds To Tumult At 'Washington Times'
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David Folkenflik archive
Monday, November 23, 2009
Media
GlobalPost: A New Experiment In Foreign Coverage
In recent years, budgets for permanent foreign staffs have been slashed in all but a handful of newsrooms. GlobalPost, an upstart online news outlet that relies on a network of more than 70 part-time contributors in 50 countries, is making the case for a new for-profit model for covering the world.
Friday, November 20, 2009
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Analysis
What's Behind Lou Dobbs' Leaving CNN?
November 12, 2009 The CNN anchor quit Wednesday after months of tensions with executives, saying he would seek new ways to advocate his opinions. Dobbs evolved as a hard-liner on illegal immigration after the Sept. 11 attacks. His often inflammatory views conflicted with corporate strategy.
Friday, November 06, 2009
Media
Jayson Blair: Offering His Views On Making Up News
November 6, 2009 He hasn't said much since he published a memoir that was both a mea culpa and an accusation regarding his fabricated stories for The New York Times. But he will speak Friday at the twice-yearly Washington and Lee Journalism Ethics Institute.
Monday, October 26, 2009
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Media
Innovative 'Times' Reporter Draws Limbaugh's Ire
October 22, 2009 Conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh lashed out this week at a New York Times reporter, calling him part of a radical environmental movement. Reporter Andrew Revkin could be considered fairly revolutionary — but perhaps not in the way Limbaugh thinks.
Monday, October 19, 2009
Media
'New York Times' To Make Deeper Staff Cuts
October 19, 2009 The newspaper will cut the size of its news staff by 8 percent by the end of the year. It will offer voluntary buyouts at first but resort to layoffs if it cannot meet the newsroom target of 100 positions, according to a memo Executive Editor Bill Keller sent to staff on Monday.
Media Circus
Balloon Boy's Transfixing Effect On The Media
October 19, 2009 The saga of "Balloon Boy" (or Falcon Heene, as he's known to his new friends at the Larimer Co., Colo., sheriff's office) proved irresistible to the media last Thursday — especially the 24-hour cable news channels, which went into commercial-free crisis mode for more than an hour.
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Media
Obama Administration Takes On Fox News
October 14, 2009 The White House is taking direct aim at Fox News, the news organization that is the home to the most potent collection of its conservative critics. The network also happens to be the nation's top-rated cable news station.
Thursday, October 08, 2009
Media
Uncertainty Circulates Around Future Of 'Ebony,' 'Jet'
October 8, 2009 Two titles with a strong tradition of serving African-Americans are up against a plunging economy, changes in media consumption and the greater inclusion of black figures in other American media outlets.
Tuesday, October 06, 2009
Media
Jeff Jarvis: Rewriting Media's Business Model (Again)
October 6, 2009 Brace yourselves for the collapse of big regional newspapers, Jarvis warns — but don't give up hope. The new media evangelist and author of What Would Google Do? says that alliances of small, local news Web sites are the future of journalism.
Monday, September 28, 2009
