The Beeb has a great program — Over to You — that is about the state of media around the world. This weekend they had a story about the changes in Zimbabwe. In Zimbabwe there is only state-run broadcasting. This year the government created the Zimbabwe Media Commission with the declared intention to promote and […]

So far the most I have seen on the reporting about how the volcanic ash cloud is affecting European travel has focused on just European travel. There have been a few comments about how the airline groundings have affected flights to/from the States but I have yet to see any stories about what the groundings […]

A while back (April 7, to be exact) I wrote about a piece in Foreign Policy about WikiLeaks and the future of journalism. At that time I expressed the same concern as the FP author: Is WikiLeaks the future of journalism? I, and other journalists, are concerned that the use of WikiLeaks material is feeding […]

NPR Morning Edition did a decent story about Yoani Sanchez, author of Generation Y blog in Cuba. (Spreading Digital Revolution In A Cuban Living Room) Sanchez has won numerous awards for her blogs that point out the anti-democratic nature of the Cuban government. I have a link to the Sanchez blog on my personal site. […]

By now we’ve all seen the dramatic pictures of the Apache gunship attack of the journalists in Iraq. The film got into the wild thanks to Wikileaks. The non-profit organization has its server in Sweden and its registration in the United States. It depends on whistle blowers and other anonymous sources to get information out. […]