By Matthew Fleischer on Jul 29, 2010
Media Bistro
A new survey from USC Annenberg School of Journalism’s Center for the Digital Future reveals that only 56 percent of Internet users considered newspapers a valuable source of information. That number is down four percent since 2008. Asked what they would do if their home newspaper folded and [...]

By: Mark Fitzgerald
Published: [...]

The Franklin Center for Government and Public Integrity, a national non-profit journalism organization, released the following statement regarding the passing of veteran journalist Daniel Schorr.  Schorr’s six decade career touched every aspect of journalism.  He began in print, then spent 23 years in television at CBS News and was most recently at NPR.
“Daniel Schorr was [...]

Douglas Belkin didn’t follow orders while covering Rod Blagojevich trial, authorities say.
Updated 10:30 AM CDT, Thu, Jul 22, 2010
NBC Chicago
A Wall Street Journal spokeswoman said the newspaper will fight the charges lobbed against one of their reporters following his arrest Wednesday.
The reporter, Douglas Belkin, was waiting in a designated reporters’ area in the Dirksen Federal [...]

By Myra Adams

Is anyone honestly surprised by the revelations that members of the liberal left media plotted to kill stories about Reverend Jeremiah Wright during the 2008 presidential campaign?
For the now-defunct Journolist, a once powerful listserv, its members’ greatest fear was if Obama’s pastor story ran unchecked by them, re-plays of Reverend Wright’s sermons would [...]