U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is calling for an online campaign to help with the release of two American women journalists being held in North Korea.
Clinton made the remarks at a graduation ceremony at Barnard College, a women’s university in New York City.
"We have two young women journalists right now imprisoned in North Korea and you can get busy on the Internet and let the North Koreans know that we find that absolutely unacceptable," Clinton told the graduation ceremony.
MySpace, YouTube Announce Reporters To Cover Davos
One YouTube user and one MySpace user will be attending the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos-Klosters following online contests on both sites.The two "Citizen Reporters" will attend the conference and will report back by using MySpace and YouTube.
Twitter Is Great For Reporters
Alright, I’ll jump on, even acquiesce. I have viewed Twitter as more of a social phenomenon kept neatly secret within the tech community – a bubble in which the brainiacs converse. I have watched and chuckled and dismissed. I may change my mind.
Weird Suggestion: Reporters Should Sue Google
One old-media journalist thinks it’s time to unleash a brigade of Louis Vuitton-bearing lawyers on Google to stop them from stealing from newspapers.
Jilted Reporters Take Expertise Online
Lose your job? Well, you didn’t lose your knowledge base – why not give your old employer a run for its money? That’s what eight former reporters at the Santa Barbara News-Press did when they were fired, and they named the result the Santa Barbara Newsroom.
Reporters Partly Cloudy About Sun Details
At the Webcast from the Computer History Museum with Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy and Google CEO Eric Schmidt, reporters waited anxiously for the bang. Alas, it ends not with a bang, but a whimper, albeit a big whimper.
ZabaSearch: A Good Way To Get Reporters In Trouble
Shh! Don’t tell Elinor Mills over at CNet about this, she’ll just cause more trouble. ZabaSearch, a search engine geared toward finding personal information on anybody, is soon to offer a blogging feature that will no doubt produce more gossip than a quilting bee.
Reporters Off The Hook? Maybe or Maybe Not
Time magazine stepped into today and said they’d hand over their notes regarding a Bush administration leak that compromised the identity of a CIA operative. Two reporters, one for Time and the other for the New York Times (NYT) wouldn’t reveal their sources and had been told by a district court judge to hand them over or head for the hoosegow. He gave them one week.
Expressed Disappointment That Two Other Reporters Faced Going To Jail
Time magazine complied with a court order to turn over information regarding a leak in the White House that exposed the undercover identity of a CIA operative. U.S. District Court Judge Thomas Hogan told the magazine and two reporters yesterday they had one week to comply or be held in contempt of court and the reporters would go to jail.
Bloggers and Reporters Partying Together
Today during Search Engine Strategies I talked about how many bloggers are becoming reporter’s assistants.