Editors must ‘send the clear signal—and offer the necessary support—to make the coverage of government secrecy a priority in their newsrooms.’ Read more
Secrecy in the Bush Administration Rep. Henry A. Waxman U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Government Reform-Minority Staff Special Investigations Division, September 2004 www.democrats.reform.house.gov In this 81-page report staff members of the Committee on … Read more
Two books set forth causes for concern about U.S. news media, and one of the authors speaks to the Internet’s possibilities for rejuvenating journalism’s promise. Read more
Arguments for journalistic quality typically assert the importance of First Amendment responsibilities. In his book, “The Vanishing Newspaper: Saving Journalism in the Information Age,” Philip Meyer, Knight Chair in Journalism at the University of North Carolina, argues the case for … Read more
‘… filmmakers have become a source of alternative explanations for the war in Iraq and the news coverage of it, as well as critics of the administration’s policies.’ Read more
