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Dahr Jamail is an award-winning freelance journalist. His reporting from Iraq has earned him numerous awards, including the prestigious 2008 Martha Gellhorn Award for Journalism, the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism, the Joe A. Callaway Award for Civic Courage, and four Project Censored awards. more >
When prime-time cable news ratings for the second quarter of 2008 are officially released next week, they will show that Fox News reclaimed the top spot among viewers in their mid-20s through mid-50s, those of greatest interest to news advertisers, according to estimates from Nielsen Media Research. more >
(AP)Mike Lytle, a third-generation fisherman from the coastal village of Cordova, said many residents there were walking around stunned, shaking their heads. A lot of people he knows were planning their retirements with the $2.5 billion in punitive damages that Exxon Mobil Corp. was expected to pay the nearly 33,000 victims of the worst oil spill in U.S. history. more >
(E&P)Almost every newspaper Web site that made May's top 30 list ranked by traffic increased the number of unique users, year-over-year. Traffic at The Dallas Morning News soared 156% to 3.2 million uniques compared to May 2007, thanks to search-engine optimization and the Yahoo alliance. The Star Tribune in Minneapolis grew 136% to 2.3 million users in May year-over-year. more >
E&P Editor Greg Mitchell has been named one of six finalists for the "Molly Award," named for famed writer Molly Ivins, for four columns related to the media and Iraq that he wrote for Editor & Publisher.
The winner will be announced Saturday at a dinner in Austin, Texas. The award is sponsored by the Texas Observer. Dan Rather will host the dinner and Wade Goodwyn, national correspondent for National Public Radio, will be the emcee. more >
Deadline to Apply: June 27
Seminar Schedule:
Session 1: July 31-Aug. 3, 2008 in Los Angeles
Session 2: Oct. 23-26, 2008 in Los Angeles
USC's Annenberg School for Communication is calling for applications for its California Health Journalism seminars. The all-expenses-paid program, held in Los Angeles, offers journalists a chance to step away from the newsroom to hone their skills and gain new perspectives on covering health and health care. The application deadline is June 27. more >
(Guardian) Jonathan Zittrain, professor of internet governance and regulation at Oxford University, on how the internet is influencing journalism more >
(E&P)When word came down on March 12 that New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer was going to resign after revelations that he'd paid more than $80,000 for sex, Jeff Blackwell of the Rochester (N.Y.) Democrat & Chronicle grabbed his video camera and headed to a nearby diner. As the lunchtime crowd at Jim's Restaurant watched the governor's resignation live on television, Blackwell recorded their reactions and later posted them online, using additional comments for Web and print stories. more >