Saturday, July 17, 2004 7:38 PM BY JON BEAUPRE It’s a fact: nothing has shaken up the world of journalism so much since Mr. Guttenberg invented moveable type. Not Jayson Blair, not Stephen Glass, not Jack Kelley. Those guys were one-offs who will (hopefully) be object lessons for journos the world over. Blogging, however, could change the meaning of news and journalism forever. (At this point, every contemporary article on the subject explains that ‘blog’ is short for ‘web-log’, a form of online interactive journal, but then you already knew…
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DAVID BROCK ON TUESDAY 7/13
Tuesday, July 13, 2004 2:08 PM WHAT: Los Angeles Press Club invites to a Q & A with David Brock, Founder of MediaMatters.org. Co-sponsored by PR Newswire. WHO: David Brock originally gained notoriety as the closeted gay conservative who wrote the “Troopergate” story about Bill Clinton and a scathing book about Anita Hill. Since then, Brock authored Blinded by the Right: The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative, a New York Times best-seller about his training as a political conservative. His next book, The Republican Noise Machine: Right-Wing Media and How It…
Read MoreTargeting Journalists
Wednesday, July 07, 2004 2:09 PM Last year, Australian Sue Smethurst was stopped by border guards at LAX, questioned, handcuffed, probed, held in a detention center for 15 hours, and then sent back on the long flight home. Was she plotting a terrorist attack? No, she was coming to interview Olivia Newton-John. Similar rude surprises have awaited at least 20 journalists from countries such as France, England, Germany, and the Netherlands since last May, when some L.A. border control personnel began enforcing the previously ignored Journalist Visa requirement for reporters…
Read MoreAwards Winners Announced
Wednesday, June 30, 2004 2:11 PM 46TH SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA JOURNALISM AWARDS FOR WORK DURING 2003 JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR Print Over 100,000 Circulation JOHN DANISZEWSKI – Los Angeles Times Comments: Reporter’s perspective ran the Gamut from “Commander A” to “Mulhallah 665” to “Zionism”. Truly a stunning serves of pieces that captured the venture falorie of Iraq. Every American should be required to read his work before deciding how they feel about Iraq and the Iraqi people. 2nd Place: N/A Honorable Mention: N/A JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR Print Under 100,000 Circulation…
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Read MoreForeign Journalists Say U.S. TV Journalists Don’t Dig
Thursday, June 17, 2004 6:51 PM BY JORDI ORTEGA There is a way to measure the quality of journalism worldwide: by their ethics and passion for digging. These were the key agreements reached by a group of five international journal- ists who had a passionate two-hour dialogue on the state of the profession on May 7 at the LA Press Club in Hollywood. Three media expert from Lithuania had been invited by the State Department on a three-week tour to see how news is practiced here. They included TV journalist…
Read Morethe Collins Connection: June 2004
Thursday, June 17, 2004 6:48 PM By Michael Collins It’s hard to top that feeling of being judged by your peers as a winner of a Los Angeles Press Club plaque for outstanding journalism. One experience that rivals it is being able to judge the myriad of excellent sub- missions we look at from the clubs in other cities we judge, who judge our work in exchange. This year, we judged clubs from Arizona, Florida, Nebraska, Ohio and Texas. Helping me pick the winners this year were Los Angeles journalists…
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