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  1. Algeria : prosecutor requests two-month sentence for newspaper editor and reporter
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2008
    Reporters Without Borders calls on the authorities to withdraw a criminal libel prosecution against the Algiers-based daily El Watan over a 2004 article accusing a â#oraquiâ## (faith healer and exorcist) of being a charlatan.
  2. Are we journalists first?
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Authors address a longstanding debate about whether and when a reporter can intervene in a story. Real accounts are provided as examples.
  3. The CIA's Mop-Up Man: L.A. Times Reporter Cleared Stories With Agency Before Publication
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    A prominent national security reporter for the Los Angeles Times routinely submitted drafts and detailed summaries of his stories to CIA press handlers prior to publication, according to documents obtained by The Intercept.
  4. Connexions
    Volume 6, Number 4 - November 1981 - Unorganized Workers/Travailleurs Non-Organises

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1981
  5. Connexions
    Volume 11, Number 2 - Winter 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1988
  6. Defiant Journalists Back Ethical Campaign for Palestinian Media
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has concluded the launch of its programme to support ethical journalism in Palestine with a series of proposals to strengthen independent media even in the face of political difficulties.
  7. Ethics and Gender: Equality in the newsroom, Brussels Declaration
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Brussels Declaraton on Ethics and Gender: Equality in the newsroom.
  8. Fake News Inquiry: Old Wine in New Bottles
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    A criticism of a recent investigation by the UK's Culture, Media and Sports committee into 'fake news' and public persuasion by false propaganda, describing the challenges of identifying or preventing the dissemination of fake news.
  9. Free Speech and Unsafe Spaces
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    Malik criticizes "the blinkered, self-centred, indeed narcissistic, attitudes that shape much contemporary discussion on speech and its limits. Free speech, from this perspective, requires not a robust exchange of ideas but the validation of my views. I should have the right to denounce anyone I wish, but criticism of my views is a denial of my free speech. Vigorously defending oneself against criticism is to deny safe space for one's critics."
  10. Green Isle in the Sea; an informal history of the alternative press.
    An Informal History of the Alternative Press

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1986
  11. How Big Tobacco's lobbyists get what they want from the media
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    With cigarette packs on the agenda, the BBC must be asked why it lets thinktanks argue the tobacco companies' case without revealing who their paymasters are.
  12. IFJ Conference: Ethics and Gender: Equality in the newsroom
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    What is women's representation in the news management? How do women journalists make their way in today's media changes? What role can journalists unions play in promoting gender equality? How can media strengthen gender portrayal in the news?
  13. In Mexico, Finally, a Revolt Against the Media
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    The summer will determine if the “I Am 132” moment becomes a movement and that’s why “Mexican Spring” is a poor choice of words for it.
  14. In The News
    The Practice of Media Relations in Canada

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2002
    Carney gives everyone, from student to seasoned practitioner, a thorough understanding of who the media are, how they work and how to approach them with stories.
  15. Incinerating Assange - The Liberal Media Go To Work
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    The media response to Assange’s asylum request tells us much about the default brutality and reflexive herdthink of elite corporate journalism. The crucial importance of his achievements, of his cause, was deemed utterly irrelevant beside his allegedly unbearable personal failings.
  16. The Inquisition of Climate Science
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2011
    The Inquisition of Climate Science is the first book to comprehensively take on the climate science denial movement and the deniers themselves, exposing their lack of credentials, their extensive industry funding, and their failure to provide any alternative theory to explain the observed evidence of warming. Lawrence Powell's book clearly reveals that the evidence of global warming is real and that an industry of denial has deceived the American public, putting them and their grandchildren at risk.
  17. Is Assad to blame for the chemical weapons attack in Syria?
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    What possible motives that could link the Assad regime to a chemical attack in Northern Syria?
  18. Issues & Actions
    Summer 1985

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1985
    A Torono newspaper linking people for social change. Articles on Ethics and the Media, Homes Before Domes, Full Employment, plus a Toronto Social Justice Directory.
  19. JournalismSources.com
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2017
    A portal featuring news, articles, and resources about journalism, press freedom, free speech, censorship and related topics. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
  20. Journalist fights the Obama administration over its sources
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    Reporters Without Borders is asking the Department of Justice to withdraw the appeal it issued yesterday against New York Times reporter James Risen to force him to testify about his confidential sources.
  21. Letters from Lexington
    Reflections on Propaganda

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
  22. Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them
    A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2003
  23. Manufacturing Consent
    The Political Economy of the Mass Media

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1988
    Contrary to the usual image of the press and cantankerous, obstinate, and ubiquitious in its search for truth, Herman and Chomsky depict how an underlying elite consensus largely structures all facets of the news. They analyze how issues are framed and topics chosen, and the way in which the marketplace and the economics of publishing significantly shape the news.
  24. Media Lessons from Snowden Reporting: LA Times Editors Advocate Prosecution of Sources
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    The LA Times editors want Snowden imprisoned, but not the leakers whose leaks make the U.S. government look good, much of which gets laundered in that particular paper.
  25. Morals and the Media
    Ethics in Canadian Journalism

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1994
    Russell focuses on the fundamental moral questions and ethical dilemmas faced by journalists and discusses how the media both reflect and influence society.
  26. National Anti-Racism Council of Canada
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  27. Necessary Illusions
    Thought Control in Democratic Societies

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
    An inquiry into the nature of the media and the role of intellectuals in "a political system where the population cannot be disciplined by force, and thus must be subjected to more subtle forms of ideological control."
  28. News and the Culture of Lying
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1997
    The news media lie, says Weaver, not by slipshod reporting or unethical practices, but in the very "plot structure" of the news, in the masks of impersonality assumed by reporters and editors, and in catering to advertising interests and the appetite for excitement.
  29. Now a Canadian view of media ethics (book review)
    Review of Morals and the Media: Ethics in Canadian Journalism

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1995
  30. OrangeWebsite
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  31. 'Press Pants' Taunt to B.C. Press Council
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1977
  32. Radical Mass Media Criticism
    A Cultural Geneology

    Resource Type: Book
    Examines the thinkers who have reacted against the increasing media power. From the critiqes of the corrupt press during the First World War, an analysis of the relationship between public opinion and propaganda diring the Nazi years and the bias of the supposed objective news of today. Contributors include Noam Chomsky, Slavko Splichal, Joost van Loon and many other leaders in the international field.
  33. The Real Terror Network
    Terrorism in Fact and Propaganda

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1982
    Herman sets out to show that the U.S. ignores or sponsors terror by authoritarian states that are allied with U.S. interests.
  34. Reporting on Sexual Violence
    Quick tips on covering sexual violence, from preparation to writing the story.

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    The Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma provides information on how to cover sexual violence, from preparation to writing the story.
  35. RSF reiterates call for EU sanctions against CCTV and Xinhua
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for European Union sanctions against state-owned China Central Television (CCTV) and the official news agency Xinhua for broadcasting and publishing what are presumably forced "confessions."
  36. The Sad Story of Canadian Geographic
    Former employees say the nature magazine became a paid mouthpiece for oil companies and others.

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Staff at Canadian Geographic magazine report that it publishes articles financed and vetted by companies without disclosing it as sponsored content.
  37. Shadows of Liberty
    Resource Type: Film
    Published: 2012
    Examines the new media monopoly by corporations in America and the public battle for truth and democracy.
  38. Sources Select Links & Resources: Media Analysis, Media Criticism, Censorship
    Resource Type: Website
  39. Sources Select Resources
    Reviews and information about print and online resources for journalists and researchers

    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2009
    Reviews and information about print and online resources for journalists and researchers.
  40. Sources welcomes OrangeWebsite
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    Sources welcomes a new member: OrangeWebsite. OrangeWebsite is an Icelandic web hosting service provider. Most of our clients are foreign journalists, bloggers, leakers and publishers.
  41. Trump Insults the Media, but Bush Bullied and Defanged It to Sell the Iraq War
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    Bush was anything but a friend of the press during his presidency. Maybe he didn’t demonize it as much as Trump does -- but he actively manipulated it and bullied it far worse and far more effectively than Trump has, much of it in the service of selling his marquee policy: the war in Iraq.
  42. When Populism is Dangerous for Democracy
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    George Galloway’s stunning victory in last week’s Bradford West by-election afforded a rare opportunity to witness naked imbalance, establishment scorn of any challenges, and blatant anti-Muslim propaganda in the corporate British media.
  43. Barrie Zwicker
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization

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