Blogging
Reuters hook up with bloggers I was intrigued to read that Reuters, who was accused of bending over backwards to be objective when its global head of news instructed Reuters staff not to use the word terrorist to describe those responsible of 9/11, is the latest media network to
Blogging
The big question on a lot of media folks' minds these days is how blogging will change peoples media habits, and ultimately effect the way media need to do business in order to stay profitable. UK Channel 4 presenter Jon Snow recently told The Guardian's Changing Media
Blogging
I was intrigued to learn via Mediabistro that serial blog entrepreneur Elisabeth Spiers, founding editor of Manhatten media news and gossip blog Gawker, latest venture is an online business tabloid and Wall Street gossip blog. Since I'm a bit of a media junkie I've quite enjoyed
Free speech
The Western Standard is being sued by the Alberta Human Rights Commisson for publishing the infamous Mohammed cartoons. This email recently went out to all Western Standard readers (thanks to Jackie's blog for making me check that old email account the Western Standard keeps posting to): Dear Western
Blogging
As a side note to the discussion of bloggers acting as journalists: Gawker, the New York celebrity gossip blog, has put its Gawker Stalker feature, also hailed as a pioneering example of citizen journalism, into map form. It works on the formula that zealous readers report sightings of celebrities around
Blogging
The Media Guardian says companies have awakened to the potential marketing value the blogosphere can add to their PR-strategy: How big business barged in on the bloggers. My friend and blog prophet Adriana has been telling me for years and years that this invetably would happen, so I guess this
Blogging
While lunching with an old friend of mine in Pimlico, London, the other week, he expressed curiosity about how Norwegian bloggers dealt with the infamous cartoon wars. Here’s a peak at the most recent developments: “If the threats against the president of the Norwegian journalists union, Per E. Kokkvold,
Media
As Danish and Norwegian flags were set ablaze, and militant Muslim demonstrators were shouting “death to all Westerners” in several capitals of the world last week, the Norwegian foreign department initially reacted by sending out a memo to its Middle East embassies widely perceived as kowtowing to the militants. The