by jpitney | May 4, 2023 | Journalism, Journalists
From Reporters Without Borders: According to the 2023 World Press Freedom Index – which evaluates the environment for journalism in 180 countries and territories and is published on World Press Freedom Day (3 May) – the situation is “very serious” in 31 countries,...
by jpitney | May 3, 2023 | Journalism, Journalists
Albritton Journalism Institute press release: Politico founder Robert L. Allbritton has announced that he has committed $20 million to launch the Allbritton Journalism Institute (AJI), a non-profit educational organization and newsroom that will train aspiring...
by jpitney | May 2, 2023 | Dreier, Journalism, Journalists
Justin Jouvenal at WP: Federal officials have approved a site on the National Mall for the capital’s first memorial dedicated to journalists who have died while reporting the news and to the role of the free press in a democracy, the foundation planning the project...
by jpitney | Apr 30, 2023 | Journalism, Journalists
John Harris at Politico: In the wake of Watergate, journalists put a premium on detachment from political and corporate power. The assumption was that news organizations and their top journalists had their own power. With their large audiences, which provided...
by jpitney | Apr 28, 2023 | Journalism, Journalists
by jpitney | Apr 24, 2023 | Afghanistan, Journalism, Journalists
From the Committee to Protect Journalists: Taliban authorities must allow Washington Post journalist Susannah George to return to and work from Afghanistan and should stop all attempts to restrict the press, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Thursday. In a...
