A Belfast restaurant owner has successfully sued an Irish newspaper that gave his joint one star out of five—and criticised the food, drink, staff, and the cigarette smoke. Ciaran Convery has won 25,000 pounds after he charged the Irish News of defaming Goodfellas. Is this the shape of things to come? Is there no such…
Daily Archives: 13 February 2007
Front pages from around the world
We have already alerted serious journalists to its existence before, but Nikhil Moro once again reminds us of the Newseum‘s daily-updated web page with front pages of hundreds of front pages from around the world. Don’t worry if you forget after a couple of days. There’s a helpful link Today’s Front Pages in the blogroll…
Can we really trust “Citizen Journalism”?
Citizen Journalism has become a buzzword. Correction, the buzzword. The mainstream media see it as a lifeboat to rescue plunging circulation and diminishing interest. Newspapers, television channels and, increasingly, even news agencies are taking to it with fervour and ferocity. The success of websites like ohmynews.com, encyclopaedias like wikipedia.org are all seen as validation of…
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