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The Journalist Biography in an Age of Crisis

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Nicholas Kristof started his journalism career as a teen-age reporter for the News-Register, an Oregon county newspaper where he was paid twenty-five cents a column inch. He spent his pocket money on books about how to turn that gig into a career: a textbook on news editing, “The Best of Life,” accounts of White House reporters and foreign correspondents. The latter was particularly fascinating to him; the books claimed that foreign correspondents had “the authority and expense account

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What Student Journalists at Columbia Really Learned

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Over the past few weeks, student reporters at the Columbia Daily Spectator, WKCR, and elsewhere have been the main source of reliable information on Columbia University’s campus.

On April 17, the university became the center of international attention after pro-Palestine students established a Gaza Solidarity Encampment on the East Butler lawn. As the protests grew, much of the press was turned away. Mainstream reporting by nonstudents often focused on the protesters outside the campus gates and misrepresented students’ demands. … Read more

How Oil Companies Manipulate Journalists

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May 15, 2024

A tranche of 4,700 subpoenaed e-mails reveals the ways in which fossil-fuel corporations try to influence the media—and why they all too often succeed.

Climate activists protest on the first day of the Exxon Mobil trial outside the New York State Supreme Court building on October 22, 2019.

(Angela Weiss / AFP via Getty Images)

“Kill the story.”

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‘Every middle-aged woman in the country was astonished’: Journalists criticise Lancashire police for revealing Nicola Bulley’s menopause and alcohol struggles as documentary marks one year since tragedy

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Detectives and journalists slammed Lancashire Police for its controversial statement revealing that Nicola Bulley had ‘suffered with some significant issues with alcohol which were brought on by her ongoing struggles with the menopause’ in a new documentary about the tragic case, one year after she initially disappeared.

Nicola Bulley: The Disappearance That Gripped Britain – which is airing on Channel 5 on February 2, at 9pm – spoke to crime experts who admitted they were baffled by the move. 

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How To Uncover Your Expertise To Become A Journalist’s Source

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A company can generate influential media exposure by turning internal expertise into media sources.

I challenge you to use brand scoring, like count, content shares, or other vanity metrics when pitching a journalist or editor to become an expert source.

The best-case scenario is that you don’t get a response. But if the media contact feels snarky that day, they would respond with a laughing emoji.

More than 50% of journalists need PR pros to provide expert sources. However, news

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The US Media Is Ignoring Israel’s Campaign to Kill Palestinian Journalists

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January 23, 2024

Israel is trying to snuff out journalism in Gaza. This should be a sound-the-alarm, all-hands-on-deck moment for anyone who professes to support reporters and the work that they do.

Families, loved ones, and colleagues attend the funeral ceremony of two journalists—including Hamza Dahduh, the son of Al Jazeera correspondent Wael Dahduh—in Rafah, Gaza on January 7, 2024.

(Stringer / Anadolu via Getty Images)

It was a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it line, deep into a gauzy New

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“Think of It as a Genocide of Journalists”

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Last May, the Committee to Protect Journalists published a special report on the Israeli military’s targeted killing of Palestinian journalists. The CPJ investigated 20 instances since the turn of the millennium in which Palestinian journalists—most infamously, the Al Jazeera correspondent Shireen Abu Akleh—were slain by IDF soldiers and found that in none of them was anyone held responsible.

Half a year later, journalists are once again under attack again in Palestine, this time at an unprecedented rate. Since the Israeli … Read more

A Russian Journalist’s Pained Love for Her Country

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When Elena Kostyuchenko was five years old, in Yaroslavl, a provincial city a hundred and seventy miles from Moscow, the corner of the room that she shared with her mother was taken up by a television with a bulging screen and a fuzzy picture. Kostyuchenko was captivated. She brushed the dust off the picture with her fingers. “It felt like touching a moth’s wings, ever-so-gently,” she writes in “I Love Russia,” a memoir and collection of reportage translated by Bela

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French Journalists Call Off Strike, Failing to Block ‘Far-Right’ Editor

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Journalists at France’s leading Sunday newspaper announced Tuesday that they were ending one of the longest media strikes in recent French history, but they predicted that dozens might resign to protest the appointment of an editor with a far-right track record as the new editor in chief.

The staff of Le Journal du Dimanche, known for its interviews with government leaders and largely centrist policy analysis, said it had decided to call off a 40-day walkout after it became clear

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Kosovo government moves to close TV station, alarming journalists – EURACTIV.com

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Kosovo’s government on Friday (28 July) suspended the license of the country’s biggest private television broadcaster over a registration error, alarming journalists who accused the ruling party of an open war against free media.

The issue began last month when the government said it identified problems with the registration certificate of TV station Klan Kosova. The station later said it had already fixed those problems, as requested.

Kosovo’s Ministry of Trade and Industry said on Friday: “In the registration documents

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