John Owen on international news reporting
Murdoch vs Al Jazeera: Paywalls vs Free to All
Normal 0 0 1 393 2245 18 4 2757 11.1287 0 0 0 We admirers of the Times are wrestling with whether to give in to Rupert Murdoch’s new pay wall that now deprives us of free web access...
Get a Grip British and International Media
Looking at British newspaper headlines courtesy of the Sky News website, you'd think that the world is in the throes of a Swine Flu epidemic as opposed to a pandemic. CNN International has become an All Swine Flu, All...
Banned in Kenya Sort Of
The one book all Kenyans ought to have the opportunity to read about their country is Michela Wrong's new "It's Our Turn to Eat/The Story of a Kenyan Whisteblower." But only those Kenyans who get to travel or know someone...
Rosenblum's Renegades
Michael Rosenblum and his Concentra-backed DNA conference put their money where their mouths are.A hefty 10,000 Euros prize for best video journalist of the year and hardware for best breaking news vj. 4 of the 8 finalists work for...
The Eye Camera
Ready for this? Canadian documentary maker Rob Spence who lost his eye in a shooting accident when he was 10 now waiting for his prototype eye camera to be implanted. Second day keynote conversation at the Digital News Association...
Stop Press
My favorite all-time movie moment about journalism takes place at the end of the Humphrey Bogart 1952 film Deadline USA. Bogart as the grizzled editor defies a gangster's threat and order not to print a story about him. He orders...
Sri Lankan debate
If you read Graham Holliday's post about the Sri Lankan event controversy, you know how much pressure outside groups try on occasion to exert on us at Frontline. We all acknowledge that we do get it wrong from time to...
The anti-photojournalist law
One issue we clearly have missed at Frontline is the new law- Section 76 of the Counter Terrorism Act- that makes it a crime to photograph the police if they don't want you to. 150 photojournalists protested at Scotland Yard...
John Owen on international news reporting:
John Owen chairs the Frontline Club Forum, is a professor of international journalism at City University in London, international media...