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Social networking and the NYT – be careful what you sign-up for
Thanks to Poynter Online for posting the New York Times guidelines for reporters using social networking sites as a journalistic tool. The first guideline is about politics or controversial groups and...
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“Sorry” is indeed the hardest word: Facebook faux pas leads to apology
A number of British news organisations have been forced to apologise and pay damages to a woman after wrongly reporting that her daughter’s 16th birthday got out of hand because people turned up to her...
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State of Play: Commentary on contemporary journalism
I was able to catch an advanced screening of the new Russell Crowe flick, State of Play, over the weekend. Ben Affleck also stars as a rising Washington star who falls from grace. All I can say is, if...
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Kiwi newspaper ‘discovers’ Facebook photos: “Ethics? What dilemma?”
Sunday News this week uncovered photos on 32-year-old [Carmen] Thomas’s Facebook page showing her playfully pecking the cheek of All Blacks midfield sensation Ma’a Nonu and embracing wing Anthony...
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Sorry, Mr Hywood – you missed the point: It’s not about quality it’s about money
Fairfax CEO Greg Hywood delivered the A.N. Smith lecture at Melbourne University’s Centre for Advanced Journalism last night (Tuesday 15 November). I’ve never quite understood what ‘advanced’...
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Serious allegations against an Australian journalist in Egypt
Update 11pm Monday 12 Feb Austin Mackell’s blog, The Moon Under Water is a very interesting log of what’s been happening in Egypt in recent weeks. It seems that the Australian journalist will be...
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From hack to Hell and back again
Graham Johnson. (2012). Hack: Sex, drugs and scandal from inside the tabloid jungle. London: Simon & Schuster. Graham Johnson was for years an important member of the Screws of the World news team....
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Journalists and conflicts of interest: A difficult fault line
Journalists declaring conflicts of interest sounds simple, but … When it comes to conflicts of interest in journalism – whether real, potential or perceived – the rules are usually simple. They’re...
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The News Establishment is broken and Michelle Wolf exposes its flaws
A comedian made fun of Donald Trump and his inner circle and sections of the liberal U.S. news media wet themselves with anxiety. As political editor Dr Martin Hirst explains, it means the news...
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How to sell a television documentary: Al Jazeera, One Nation and media ethics
Like many people I was fascinated by Al Jazeera’s investigation, “How to sell a massacre“, into the relationship between Pauline Hanson’s One Nation and the American gun lobby group, the National Rifle...
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