A journalist organization representing 40,000 British and Irish members announced a boycott of Yahoo! today in response to the search company’s compliance with Chinese authorities to help imprison pro-democracy reporters. The National Union of Journalists advised its members to cancel all Yahoo! operated services.
Chinese Journalists Supported On Yahoo Video
The new video service from Yahoo now matches competitors YouTube and Google Video in permitting users to upload videos to the service for sharing with others; two videos that made it to the system may be a bit embarrassing to Yahoo.
Apple Pulped In Court By Journalists
Three online journalists sued by Apple gained a victory in appeals court when judges ruled in favor of a petition filed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation regarding the protection of sources.
FORWARD: Lessons from Silicon Valley Journalists
A couple weeks ago, I went to the Silicon Valley PRSA blockbuster lunch and took notes. From these notes, I wrote a post for the FORWARD blog, the student-run Website and blog, for students.
PRWeb Says Journalists Are Lemmings
PRWeb CEO David McInnis in responding to my prior post about direct-to-consumer press release services is saying that there is nothing sacred or holy about journalism anymore.
Anyone Can Blog; Not All Are Journalists
Around this time last year, New York University professor Jay Rosen declared the “bloggers vs. journalists” debate closed. He cited New York Times writer John Schwartz’ own admission that “for vivid reporting from the enormous zone of tsunami disaster, it was hard to beat the blogs.”
London’s Citizen Journalists Slammed In The Guardian
John Naughton, in today’s Guardian: Why I have serious doubts about the ‘citizen reporters’…
Bloggers Are Gonna Have to be Journalists
“Is there a “blog of record” that I can really trust? One where, having read one story about a matter, I can trust that the facts I now think I know are facts indeed?”…
Secrets of Product Development and What Journalists Write
Before I came out to California to work at Yahoo, I watched the business and culture of Silicon Valley from a distance. I read lots of the trade rags, tech web sites, and books about early Internet companies (the Netscape era).
Canadian Journalists Learn About Blogs
The Canadian Association of Journalists held its CAJ Conference 2005 this weekend in Winnipeg, Manitoba.