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Journalism doesn't pay, so what?
I never thought about making money when I set up Kigali Wire. From the beginning it has always been an experiment and it remains so. I never thought about making money when I shot my first photojournalism essay - which is in dire need of an editor's hand... forgive...more
End Times at The New York Times
The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10cEnd Timesthedailyshow.comDaily Show Full EpisodesPolitical HumorNewt Gingrich Unedited Interview The Daily Show take a tour of the offices of the New York Times. If you want to know what's black and white and red all over... watch the video above....more
A world without foreign correspondents
Andrew Stroehlein, Communications Director for the International Crisis Group, wrote a great piece on his Covering Crisis blog on the Reuters AlertNet site. He has very kindly agreed to let us post it on the Frontline blog. He raises a lot of points about under-reported stories, things we regularly cover...more
How not to read a newspaper
Writing on the Foreign Policy blog Thomas E. Ricks suggests we should start reading newspapers like reporters. His simple, but misguided, point is that we should simply follow the writers we like, look for the bylines we know and love, read those articles and pretty much ignore the rest of...more
Live tonight: John D McHugh - War in Multimedia
Live Streaming by Ustream.TV Multimedia journalist and Frontline Club Journalism Award winner John D. McHugh will be talking at the Frontline Club tonight about reporting war across a range of media for The Guardian newspaper. We start at 7pm GMT/11am PST and as usual we will be streaming the...more
Fixing the foreign correspondent web
How does the Internet affect the work of a foreign correspondent? That's the question Andrew Stroehlein, a journalist and Communications Director for the International Crisis Group, discusses on the Reuters AlertNet blog. Andrew draws together a lot of current thinking and makes the point that it's often impractical for...more
The Decline of the Foreign Correspondent
Princeton University recently held a panel discussion on the Decline of the Foreign Correspondent. They talk about the "dramatic shift of traditional media away from foreign reporting and the growth of web-based citizen journalists and the effect on coverage of international news and human rights issues" Taking part are,Loren...more
Global Post looks to engage bloggers
Global Post, a new online news agency, is set to launch on Monday, January 12. The site claims it has 60+ foreign correspondents ready to report from 40+ countries in text, pictures and video. They plan to begin by trying to answer the question: "What does Obama mean to...more
The future of news
This could make a good Christmas read. The Media Re:Public report on the future of media in the digital age is published just in time for the holidays and it's free to download. As Ethan says,My friend Persephone Miel came to the Berkman Center more than a year ago...more
50% of UK media jobs to go by 2013
[video:youtube:vpAdAG8ktAk] Robert Andrews has a thoroughly depressing (but realistic?) post up on the excellent media watch blog PaidContent about the number of job lay offs forecast for the UK media industry in the near future. “We calculated the total jobs in the media in the UK at about 400,000 ......more
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Graham Holliday is the Digital media editor at the Frontline Club. He writes about the club, the world of foreign...