Meena Thiruvengadam —
February 10, 2012— Poynter.org
A growing number of journalists are being detained and arrested in the United States, and not just while covering activism. How can you protect yourself and make sure your notes, photos, video and other materials are safe? Having a plan beforehand is one key.
A new campaign from the U.K's Royal Statistical Society aims to help journalists more accurately report numbers. Poynter interviews the former journalist leading the effort.
A memo about the buyouts stresses that they are voluntary, but leaves open the option of layoffs. The Gannett Blog, an independent site about Gannett and the news industry, has a series of posts about the announcement and is surveying employees about whether they'd take the offer.
Vietnam's Foreign Ministry delivered a letter this week to AP's Hanoi bureau fondly remembering George Esper, one of a handful of journalists who stayed behind after the fall of Saigon in 1975.
A Spanish photographer is honored for his photo of a burqa-clad woman holding a wounded relative in her arms inside a mosque used as a field hospital during last year's demonstrations in Yemen.
In 1896, the New York Times announced a contest to come up with a new motto that "more aptly" captured the newspaper's character than the now-famous, "All the News that's Fit to Print." With a prize of $100, hundreds of entries poured in, including, "Full of Meat, Clean and Neat," and "As Bright as a Star and There You Are." Inexpiicably, the paper decided to stick with its original slogan.
In the last four months, more than 60 journalists have been arrested while reporting on the Occupy movement. In the last 48 hours, 16,000 people have stood up to support those journalists and defend the First Amendment in their communities.
The gut-wrenching account of Lynsey Addario's time in Eastern Congo is the latest entry in the "Women Under Siege" project from the Women's Media Center. The project is documenting how rape and other forms of sexualized violence are used as tools in genocide and conflict.
Suddenly news organizations are hiring coders, data visualizers, and product managers like crazy — The Washington Post alone has 17 openings in IT and engineering — but there aren’t enough people to fill the jobs. OpenNews aims to change that.
News media columnist Wemple critiques Ross Douthat's Sunday New York Times column, which argued that the media showed a liberal bias in covering the Koman-Planned Parenthood story last week.
