On September 9, kidnapped New York Times reporter Stephen Farrell was rescued in northern Afghanistan. His fellow Afghan reporter and interpreter, however, 34-year-old Sultan Munadi, was killed in the raid.
In the business of war reporting, local reporters and translators working with foreign news outlets often are the unfortunate victims of story gathering, especially in recent years.
An upcoming international conference in Malaysia focusing on indigenous media will discuss the relevance of "indigenizing" media knowledge in an era in which Western curricula has influenced media studies worldwide.
In an increasingly globalized world, maintaining an indigenous identity in the media -- and contextualizing knowledge and information to suit local discourse, policies and realities -- is a challenge.
The decline in online advertising revenues is forcing major newspapers to reconsider their digital strategies. Media executive Rupert Murdoch recently said that within the next year visitors to the company's news Web sites will have to start paying fees to access content.
Murdoch, chairman of News Corp, is not the only executive calling for a new business model for the industry. Last July, Lionel Barber, Financial Times editor, also predicted that "almost all" news organizations will start charging for online content within a year.
Since "Burma" was changed to "Myanmar" in 1989 by the country's military government -- a year after thousands were killed in the suppression of a popular uprising -- the country's name has been the subject of controversy among journalists around the world.
Some say using Myanmar brings credibility to a regime that rules under violent means.
More and more, journalists are adding music to news stories on the Web. Photos, photo slideshows and video often feature prerecorded music between or over narration.
The Internet and new technologies have provided the world a unique and unprecedented view of the continuing unrest in Iran. As the New York Timespoints out: "As foreign journalists are forced to leave Tehran and others are essentially confined to their hotel rooms, news organizations are looking more and more to the Iranians themselves to provide the news, or at least the pictures."
* targeted Web advertising, or pinpointing advertisements to individual readers * events * sell merchandise (for instance, t-shirts and mugs through an online store) * license content * charge for premium archival material
Is the media in your region taking the proper, cautionary response to swine flu, or are they exaggerating the threat through alarmist reporting that creates panic?
Media can deepen divides by offending or confronting another's culture or identity. Cartoons published in the Danish Press in 2005 that depicted the Prophet Mohammed, for instance, set off protests throughout the Muslim world, with critics calling the cartoons racist and blasphemous.
A new study has found "unique visitors" to be the most important metric of a story's traction online, but there are a number of factors journalists can note to decide if the story has been a success. How do you measure the value of your work?
Sensor journalism lets newsrooms capture and report on their own data instead of depending on governments or other sources. The growing practice raises privacy and safety concerns.
Citizen journalists help cover revolutions, offer personal takes on breaking news and tell stories that would otherwise go untold. How does this impact the role of freelance journalism?
The Romanian senate passed a law last week requiring the media to provide their audiences with 50 percent positive news. The bill’s creators say the law will help fight the harms of negative news and its effects on people’s lives.
