1. Advocacy Journalism
   Connexipedia Article
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   A genre of journalism that intentionally and transparently adopts a non-objective viewpoint, usually for some social or political purpose.
2. After the interview
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 1999
   What to do after being interviewed by a reporter.
3. Agreement on terms
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 2007
   I have come to accept that western journalists cannot accurately, let alone objectively, represent the Middle East and the Arab world. The problem is not that journalists do not always adhere to their own professional codes and methods, though that does happen. It is that even if correspondents strictly obey all the rules, they still present a fundamentally biased and skewed picture of the Middle East.
4. Alternative Library Literature 1988-1989
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1990
   
5. Alternative Press Annual 1983, The
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1984
   
6. Alternative Press Annual 1984, The
   Resource Type: Book
   
7. And Then They Came For Me
   Final Words from Lasantha Wickrematunge
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 2009
   An editorial by Lasantha Wickrematunge shortly before he was murdered on January 8, 2009, and published three days after his death.
8. Authentic journalism: weapon of the people
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 2010
   The path out of the crises wrought by commercial journalism opens when citizens steal back the mission that big media claimed but failed to do: Honest, coherent storytelling.
9. Beyond the dross
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 2010
   Pilger and Platt discuss the craft of journalism.
10. Brothers-in-Arms: Capitalism and Corporate Journalism
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2010
    An essential role of corporate journalism is to shore up public confidence in an unjust, crisis-riven financial and economic system. Although plenty of gloom and doom is permitted, especially in the face of obvious crisis, the legitimacy of the system is rarely questioned.
11. Burning Truth
    Invisible Truth
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2011
    Make no mistake about this: Hoang Hung was killed as a warning to other journalists. Make too much noise and you will be roasted alive like this man.
12. The Cancer in Occupy
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2012
    The Black Bloc anarchists, who have been active on the streets in Oakland and other cities, are the cancer of the Occupy movement. The presence of Black Bloc anarchists — so named because they dress in black, obscure their faces, move as a unified mass, seek physical confrontations with police and destroy property — is a gift from heaven to the security and surveillance state.
13. Canwest latest 'media giant' to exploit news operations
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Media corporations claim to care about quality journalism, but they#ve deceived Canadians for decades -- censoring news to protect their profits, pandering to the interests of the corporate world, and neglecting to invest adequately in their news operations. For decades powerful media corporations have decided what news Canadians should read, hear, and see. By reading just about any Canadian daily newspaper it#s not hard to see how the values of corporate-owned media are quite different from the values and interests of the majority of Canadians.
14. Censored: The News That Didn't Make The News - And Why
    The 1995 Project Censored Yearbook
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1996
    Documenting how the U.S. mass media does a shabby job, deliberately or negligently withholding information of vital importance.
15. Citizen journalism
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    
16. Civic Journalism
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    
17. A climate of fear endangers press freedom
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Today, the greatest threats to freedom of the press are more insidious than a generation ago because they are intended to induce a climate of fear and self-censorship through systematic violence and emblematic arrest aimed at those who would practice real, independent journalism.
18. Communication for and Against Democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
    
19. Community Journalism
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    
20. Connexions Digest
    Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1992
    
21. Connexions Digest
    Issue 50 - December 1989 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1989
    
22. Does The US Military Want To Kill Journalists
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2003
    Are the killings of journalists by the U.S. merely accidents, or are they deliberate?
23. Doing Public Journalism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1995
    The author argues that journalists should be responsible citizens who with "the power of the press empower others besides the press.
24. The Encyclopedia of Censorship
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
    This Encyclopedia concentrates primarily on the United States and the United Kingdom, but it also covers events in Western and Eastern Europe and in parts of the Third World. The Encyclopedia is an accessible and wide-ranging sourcebook on censorship topics.
25. Environmental journalism
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    The collection, verification, production, distribution and exhibition of information regarding current events, trends, issues and people that are associated with the non-human world with which humans necessarily interact.
26. Environmental Journalism Home Page
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Good collection of annotated links to Internet environmental resources, mostly American.
27. Eyes With Legs
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2010
    In the last decade, 11 journalists have been murdered by Israeli forces, including Cevdet Kiliclar, a Turkish who was shot in the head, last week, as he photographed Israeli commandos attacking peace activists on the Freedom Flotilla. The U.S. never condemns these crimes because it#s Israel#s biggest supporter, and also because it does the same.
28. FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) Internet site
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    U.S. media watch group that documents and criticizes media bias and censorship, scrutinizes media practices that marginalize public interest, minority, and dissenting viewpoints, and advocates for greater diversity in the press.
29. Frequently Asked Questions about Sources
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    SOURCES is a media service that connects journalists, editors, authors and researchers with the sources they need for their work. SOURCES spotlights organizations, institutions, government agencies, companies, and individuals who want to share their expertise and points of view with the media. The SOURCES directory is used by thousands of reporters and researchers who need to find quotable sources and reliable information for their news stories or research.
30. From Politics to Profit
    The Commercialization of Canadian Daily Newspapers, 1890-1920
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1997
    Analyzes the transformation of Canadian newspapers that occurred between 1890 and 1920 when daily newspapers slowly changed from political mouthpieces to a marketable industry.
31. Getting the Balance Right
    Gender Equality in Journalism
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Gender equality in journalism.
32. Getting the Goods
    Information in BC How to Find It, How to Use It
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    A guide to the basic sources of information -- the tools of the trade -- that all reporters, researchers and investigators rely on.
    
33. Gonzo journalism
    Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    
34. The Goodwin's Award for Excellence in Alternative Journalism
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Winners of the 3rd annual Goodwin's Awards for alternative journalism.
35. The Goodwin's Award for Excellence in Alternative Journalism
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Winners of the 4th annual Goodwin's Awards for alternative journalism.
36. The Goodwin's Award for Excellence in Alternative Journalism
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Winners of the 4th annual Goodwin's Awards for alternative journalism.
37. Guidelines for exiled journalists
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    A guide for journalists driven into exile, to provide them with information about the procedures and potential obstacles in seeking asylum.
38. Tim Hector
    A Caribbean Radical's Story
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2006
    An account of the life of Antiguan activist Tim Hector.
39. Helping you reach the media 
    How Sources can help you get more and better media coverage
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    Media coverage is the most valuable kind of publicity there is because it is based on the news value or information value of what you do or say, and is therefore far more credible than paid publicity like advertising. SOURCES makes it possible for organizations, institutions, companies, and individuals to reach the media effectively, consistently, and inexpensively. SOURCES has been helping organizations, companies, institutions, and individuals get media attention for over 30 years.
40. Honoring Helen Thomas
    A Great Journalist, Traduced By Hacks
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2010
    Helen Thomas was done in because she embarrassed the group of lap dogs who call themselves White House reporters.
41. How to Write about Haiti
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2010
    How to make sure that you stick to the tried and proven cliches.
42. I.F. Stone: A Wonderful Pariah
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1989
    
43. The I.F. Stone's Weekly Reader
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973
    
44. Interior Ministry protection programme for journalists also used for "close-quarters spying"
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Journalist Claudia Julieta Duque, who is under an interior ministry protection programme for journalists, has been harassed and intimidated by Colombia's intelligence services, who obtained information about her from her alleged protectors.
45. Into the Buzz Saw
    Resource Type: Book
    Accounts of journalists investigating stories which the power structure doesn't want investigated.
46. Islamic Peril
    Media And Global Violence
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
    
47. Israeli army#s attitude: Regret, but no real enquiries and certainly no one punished
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2003
    The issue of the security of journalists working in the Occupied Territories cloaks another major political issue, that of the restrictions which the Israeli army imposes in the name of security on journalists working in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, especially Palestinians. Israeli officials are unstinting in their criticism of the way the foreign press covers the conflict. The foreign press rejects the criticism and accuses the Israeli authorities of trying to restrict access to information and to influence the way it is treated. Some go so far as to accuse the Israeli army of deliberately targeting journalists.
48. Israeli journalist Anat Kam under secret house arrest since December
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2010
    An Israeli journalist has been under secret house arrest since December on charges that she leaked highly sensitive, classified military documents which suggest the Israeli military breached a court order on assassinations in the occupied West Bank.
49. Journalism: A Very Short Introduction
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2003   Published: 2005
    Ian Hargreaves discusses the history, development, future and ethics of journalism and describes journalists' relationship with the public.
50. Journalism and 'the words of power' 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2010
    More and more today, we journalists have become prisoners of the language of power.
51. Journalism as a Weapon of War
    John Pilger address to Columbia University
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2006
    On 14 April 2006, the Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University in New York brought together John Pilger, Seymour Hersh, Robert Fisk and Charles Glass for a discussion entitled 'Breaking the Silence: War, lies and empire'. The following is a transcript of John Pilger's address - 'War by Media'
    
52. Journalists assaulted and censored
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2010
    Palestinian journalists are under attack from Israeli forces and are also subjected to raids and arrests as a result of political rivalry between the Palestinian Authority and Hamas, report the Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedom (MADA) and Reporters Without Borders (RSF). Meanwhile, Israel continues to target and detain scores of Palestinians involved in protests against the separation barrier in the West Bank with freedom of movement and expression violations, reports Human Rights Watch.
53. Journalists Killed since 1992
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    A database of more than 700 journalists who have been murdered or killed on dangerous assignments since 1992. Interactive maps, timelines, and statistical breakdowns providing analysis by country, year, and type of death with a special emphasis on unsolved murders, a focal point of CPJ's Global Campaign Against Impunity.
54. Justice in the News: A Response to the targetting of media in Gaza
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    A mission to Gaza found that media were subject to intimidation and direct military assault and deliberately prevented from working freely. The findings confirm evidence of frequent targeting of media during the operations.
55. Lazy Journalists are the Darlings of the Corporations
    Indian Country and the Lessons of McCarthyism
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Lazy journalists are great friends of the corporations. They are known as "armchair journalists" because they sit in comfort and rewrite press releases from politicians and corporations. To spice it up a bit, they dial a few numbers, get a few comments and call it a news story. They are the "darlings of the energy companies," as Buffy Sainte Marie says.
56. Lies The Media Tell us
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
    Outlines the extent to which the mainstream media is subject to its corporate publishers and advertisers.
57. Loaves and Fishes
    The Inspiring Story of the Catholic Worker Movement
    Resource Type: Book
    
58. Manual teaches intelligence agency employees how to spy on problem journalists
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    The weekly Semana has revealed the existence of an instruction manual for employees of the Administrative Department of Security (DAS), Colombia#s leading intelligence agency, that explains how they should spy on, threaten, intimidate and discredit NGOs, judges and journalists who create problems for the government.
59. Manufacturing Consent 
    The Political Economy of the Mass Media
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
    Contrary to the usual image of the press and cantankerous, obstinate, and ubiquitious in its search for truth, Herman and Chomsky depict how an underlying elite consensus largely structures all facets of the news. They analyze how issues are framed and topics chosen, and the way in which the marketplace and the economics of publishing significantly shape the news.
60. Memoirs of a Media Maverick
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2003
    An engaging memoir of a radical socialist who also was a recognized journalist, writer, and filmmaker.
61. Merchants of Doubt
    How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2010   Published: 2012
    Investigative reportage on how private interests and lobbies in America use hired gun scientists to spread doubt and misinformation. The media's binary understanding of balanced repoting has given these individuals a soapbox and allowed the public to believe there are divisions in the mainstream scientific opinion on global warming where none exist.
62. The Missing News 
    Filters and Blind Spots in Canada's Press
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
    Asks a number of questions, including: How well do the news media filter reality, for what purposes, through what processes and in whose interests? How do newspapers and TV stations choose what news is printed or aired, which letters will be published, or who will be accorded credibility?
63. Mixed Media, Mixed Messages
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
    This is a collection of columns by Vancouver Sun columnist Persky. Specifically, Persky tries to address moral and philosophical questions raised by media practices.
    
64. Mossad Operation Threatened Against Reporter
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2010
    An Israeli journalist who went into hiding after writing a series of reports showing lawbreaking approved by Israeli army commanders faces a lengthy jail term for espionage if caught, as Israeli security services warned at the weekend they would #remove the gloves# to track him down.
65. The Movement and the Sixties
    Resource Type: Book
    Drawing on interviews, manuscripts, and archives, Anderson reveals how one event built upon another and exploed into the kaleidoscope of activism in the United States by the early 1970s. Civil rights, student power, and the crusade against the Vietnam War composed the first wave of the movement, and during after after the rip tides of 1968, the movement changed and expanded, flowing into new currents of counterculture, minority empowerment, and women's liberation.
66. Newspeak in the 21st Century
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2009
    Revealing the lethal bias in 'balanced' reporting.
67. The Other
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2009
    The Other is made up of a series of lectures that Kapuscinski delivered in Austria and in Poland, eloquent speeches in which he considers the history, the present and the future of our relationship with the Other, a term he employs to distinguish Europeans from "non-Europeans, or non-whites -- while fully aware for the latter, the former are just as much 'Others'."
68. Radical Mass Media Criticism
    A Cultural Geneology
    Resource Type: Book
    Examines the thinkers who have reacted against the increasing media power. From the critiqes of the corrupt press during the First World War, an analysis of the relationship between public opinion and propaganda diring the Nazi years and the bias of the supposed objective news of today. Contributors include Noam Chomsky, Slavko Splichal, Joost van Loon and many other leaders in the international field.
69. Raising Hell
    A Citizen's Guide to the Fine Art of Investigation
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1983
    
70. A Reporter's mindset
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1999
    Remember that reporters have a job to do. If you help the reporter, you are really helping yourself.
71. Reporting Gender Based Violence
    A Handbook for Journalists
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Violence Against Women has presented particular challenges to the media and to society because of the way it has been consigned to the "private" sphere -- dampening public discussion and stifling media debate. Yet, the media has the potential to play a lead role in changing perceptions that, in turn, can help galvanize a movement for change. This toolkit seeks to help reporters and news managers grapple with the challenge of reporting gender based violence is a way that doe snot perpetuate gender stereotypes but informs and encourages public debate.
72. Rupert's Empire of Slime
    Murdoch's Knife in the Heart of Journalism
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2011
    In the name of freedom of the press Rupert’s Fox News and commentators spew verbal venom on notions that smack of socialist, pink or liberal thought – like taxing billionaires and regulating their corporate and banking behavior. Indeed, the Foxers promote billionaires not paying taxes as an example of virtue and freedom. “You don’t want your government squandering taxpayers’ money.” Sure, imagine life without cops, firemen, schools, road repair service, etc.
73. The Silent Revolution
    Media, Democracy, and the Free Trade Debate
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
    
74. Sources.com 
    Portal for Journalists and Writers - The directory for reporters, writers, editors and researchers
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    First Published: 1977   Published: 2009
    Sources is an information portal for journalists, freelance writers, news editors, authors, researchers and journalism students -- and a resource for organizations, institutions, businesses, and individuals who want to get media coverage of their expertise and their views on newsworthy topics.
    Journalists: Use Sources to find experts, media contacts, spokespersons, scientists, lobbyists, officials, speakers, university professors, researchers, newsmakers, CEOs, executive directors, media relations contacts, spokespeople, talk show guests, PR representatives, Canadian sources, story ideas, research studies, databases, universities, colleges, associations, businesses, government, research institutions, lobby groups, non-government organizations (NGOs), in Canada and internationally.
    Newsmakers: Use Sources to raise your profile and get media coverage. Sources is a powerful tool which complements and magnifies your other efforts to publicize yourself. See www.sources.com/Profile.htm, fill out the membership form, or call 416-964-7799.
75. The Sources HotLink 
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    First Published: 1996   Published: 2009
    A website and newsletter dealing with media relations strategies.
76. Sources (portal for journalists and writers) - Wikipedia article
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2008
    An information portal for journalists, freelance writers, editors, authors, and researchers, focusing especially on human sources: experts and spokespersons who are prepared to answer reporters# questions or make themselves available for on-air interviews.
77. The SOURCES SELECT Online Story
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    A history and overview of SOURCES SELECT ONLINE, the online information resource for journalists, editors, and writers.
78. Sources Select Resources
    Reviews and information about print and online resources for journalists and researchers
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    First Published: 1977   Published: 2009
    Reviews and information about print and online resources for journalists and researchers.
79. Spinwars
    Politics and New Media
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1999
    An examination of media manipulation in late 20th Century North American politics.
80. The State of the News Media
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2003
    Journalists are older, smarter, generally more educated, and usually more cynical than their predecessors. Cynicism often breeds distrust making the current generation of news reporters more suspicious and more formidable than ever.
81. Sustaining Democracy?
    Journalism and the Politics of Objectivity
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1998
    Tthe authors argue that "the regime of objectivity" should give way to a journalism aimed at sustaining democracy.
82. Tell the Truth and Run
    George Seldes and the American Press
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    Dissects American journalism throughout the Twentieth Century through the actions of independent newspaperman George Seldes, and offers a piercing look at censorship and suppression in the media.
83. Telling It
    Women and Language Across Cutures
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    
84. Telling the Truth
    Socialist Register 2006
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2005
    A collection of essays that examines the difficulties of illuminating the degenerative and secretive nature of public life.
85. 2009 Journalist Conference in Israel: No News
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    The support provided by Israel#s primary media to the security and political moves of the government#any government#is not new in Israel. The perception that media is committed to the ethics of the #public#s right to know,# in numerous cases even against strong currents that demand the silencing and concealment of information, serves more as a title for academic conferences and less as a rule that guides the media establishment in Israel. Not only this, but the journalists# association adopted the official governmental approach in relation to international forums concerned with human rights. This approach places obstacles of suspicion and hostility before anyone who does not follow the official line of Israeli patriotism. Legitimate criticism of unprofessional and unethical conduct of media that volunteers for national or military service is countered with the contention that the source of criticism is anti-Semitic.
86. Unreliable Sources
    A Guide to Detecting Bias in the New Media
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
    Lee and Solomon argue that American news media censor actual current events. The reason being is that there is pressure from the Government and Corporations. The public must challenge the facts of both electronic and print media.
87. War, Peace and the Media
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1983   Published: 1985
    Zwicker argues that press coverage of the USSR is "profoundly uninformative, a journalistic yawn that is helping us sleepwalk toward the biggest slumber of all time: nuclear war."
88. Watchdog journalism
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    A type of investigative journalism. It refers to forms of activist journalism aimed at holding accountable public personalities and institutions whose functions impact social and political life.
89. What Does a Reporter Want?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2001
    What does a reporter what when they interview you?
90. When journalists forget that murder is murder
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2001
    When Israelis are involved, our moral compass, our ability to report the truth, dries up.
91. Wikileaks - The Smear and the Denial
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2010
    The Internet has revealed a chasm separating the corporate media from readers and viewers. Previously, the divide was hidden by the simple fact that journalists monopolised the means of mass communication. Dissent was restricted to a few lonely lines on the letter’s page, if that.
92. Wild West Journalism
    Outlaws, Cowpokes and a Eunuched Press
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2010
    Journalism is not dead nor is anthropology. Both are undergoing seismic transformations while under attack from a neoliberal culture that devalues the public and disparages the truth.
93. Yellow journalism
    Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    
94. Yesterday's News
    Why Canada's Daily Newspapers are Failing Us
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1998
    Illuminates the decline of print journalism, suggests reasons for this decline and proposes solutions to reverse this downward trend.

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