PressEthic

The Internet portal Yahoo! played a large part in the jailing of a Chinese journalist, giving the Chinese government key information to track him down upon request. Yahoo! says they were just following local laws. Does Yahoo! have any responsibility to uphold American ideals while doing business overseas? Or is its lone responsibility to shareholders?

Science reporting teaches all journalists a lesson about good writing.

We Americans have a resevoir of negative stereotypes about Islam that are reinforced by the media.

What goes up must come down. It's true of gravity, and it goes double for the media. It looks like Anderson Cooper's honeymoon period is over.

It’s difficult to say what exactly makes you want to read that specific piece of writing. Is it the subject, does it have nothing to do with the subject, but rather the form in which the subject is being presented?

If you're like the many Americans who start their day with a cup of coffee and a perusal of the New York Times' Op Ed page, you're in for a surprise next week. As of Monday, September 19th, "The Paper of Record" is introducing TimesSelect, which will be require a $49.95 deposit for online access to various functions of the Times, including the Op-Ed pages where such popular columnists as Maureen Dowd, Thomas Friedman, Paul Krugman, and David Brooks practice their craft.

In October last year, the Danish journalist, Frank Esmann, publishes the book “Kissinger”, about Henry Kissinger. Frank Esmann is highly esteemed, respected for his journalistic work and a local Danish celebrity.

On Monday morning of this week, before the live shots of the weatherman in Times Square but right after footage of the sad state of suddenly stray dogs in New Orleans, Charlie Gibson had a choice to make.

I do not watch television often. I get most of my news from print mediums and on-line. Hence, watching a nightly news broadcast almost gave me a seizure. Shepard Smith raced from one story to the next without missing a beat. The broadcast covered 29 stories in approximately 42 minutes of airtime. It was like being in the mind of a person who only reads the headlines in the newspaper.

Newsrooms and advertising departments are blurring together, and in all the wrong ways.

Four years later and only four people charged out of hundreds in Guantanamo Bay....

While trolling the many, many articles about Katrina, I noticed something: more than a few reporters have described it as a storm of “biblical proportions”; of “biblical scope”; as a “biblical tragedy”.

Considering how many different mediums there are these days to relay news and information to people, should we change our definition of what a journalist is, and what can be considered good journalism?

I thought war was a violent and complicated thing. But for Yahoo, it seems to be something fun that can be appealing to young viewers.

President Bush is addressing the General Assembly at the UN today, where he will press member nations for a unified resolution on Iran's nuclear ambitions - specifically, a threat to send the issue to the Security Council where sanctions could be imposed if Iran does not stop its nuclear processing activities.

After agreeing last November to suspend tests at uranium-conversion facilities, Iran last month announced that it would resume testing, despite its earlier indications that it would consider a long-term agreement with France, Britain and Germany that would trade suspension of its nuclear activities for substantial economic assistance. The US was largely absent from these initial negotiations.