By Monica Cruz
Source: The Daily O’ Collegian
Spanish newspaper El Pais awards the Pulitzer Prize equivalent for Spanish speaking journalists. The Ortega and Gasset prize in the digital category was awarded to independent blogger Yoani Sanchez. Her merit goes beyond good writing and the blog’s popularity, which registered 1.2 million hits in February. (Continue reading)
To read the winning blog click here
This photograph won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for best breaking news photograph.
Awarded to Adrees Latif of Reuters for his dramatic photograph of a Japanese videographer, sprawled on the pavement, fatally wounded during a street demonstration in Myanmar.
Has the newspaper industry turned its back on aspiring young journalists?
By Ken Krayeske
published in the Poynter Institute webpage on June 2006
“I didn’t realize I would end up as a journalist,” Wolinsky said. “But it absolutely contributed to my development as a professional. You need it. It gives you a real-life version of a newsroom.” (Continue reading)
Enter the webpage and click on “2008″
Source:Concor Monitor
By Mike Pride
The family of Carolynne St. Pierre faced the ultimate grief. Despite her courage, a rare cancer was killing a mother and wife long before her time. Yet she and her husband Rich invited photographer Preston Gannaway and reporter Chelsea Conaboy to chronicle Carolynne’s death and its impact on their family. (Continue reading)
Source: The Korean Times
By Park Si-soo
A group of professors opposing President Lee Myung-bak’s cross-country canal project condemned the government for putting what they call clandestine censorship on anti-canal campaigners. (Continued)
Listen to this podcast! David Inge hosts the debate. It’s 52 minutes long but it’s very interesting.
Source: Hofstra Chronicle
Countless hours of work are required for producing a newspaper. College editors need to spend the same amount of time and late nights-on top of juggling another career-being a student. Students dedicate themselves to a publication for the experience of a supplement to the lessons learned in class. (Continued)
Source: Reporters without Borders
Reporters Without Borders is very worried about the pressure being placed on the authorities by conservative religious leaders in the case of Sayed Perwiz Kambakhsh, a young journalist in the northern province of Balkh who has been detained since late October 2007 on charges of blasphemy and defaming Islam. The Council of Mullahs says he should be sentenced to death. (Continued)
