ABC’s Sawyer to interview Woodward about ‘Obama’s Wars’

Orlando Sentinel Bob Woodward ’s new book comes out Sept. 27, and Diane Sawyer ’s interview with the author starts that night on “ABC World News.” Portions of the interview also will be seen on “Nightline” and “Good Morning America.”

A journalist laughs at the thought that his layoff anniversary is worth a story, but…

by Michael Goldfarb London – For Michael Goldfarb each day begins as it always did up until July 2005. He wakes up an hour before his family, goes into his home office and reads his way through a minimum of five papers online making notes about possible stories to follow-up.

[TNTJ] Questions, questions, questions

Working journalists interview several people every day of their working lives, whether it’s a short couple of simple questions over the phone or a full-on sit-down adversarial Q&A in front of the camera. If you can’t do it well, it doesn’t matter how many different ways you can tell a story – you won’t get one.

Michele Salcedo Wins as NAHJ President

AP Editor to Tackle Threats to Association’s Survival AP Editor to Tackle Threats to Association’s Survival Michele Salcedo , an editor at the Washington bureau of the Associated Press and five-year board member of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, was elected president of NAHJ on Saturday , defeating Hugo Balta , the outgoing vice president for broadcast, 52 percent to 47 percent, the Latino Reporter, the student project for the Denver convention, reported.

How HuffPo, Daily Caller, 5th Estate Use White House Access Differently than 4th Estate

The White House press corps has certainly had its share of nontraditional journalists. There is Raghubir Goyal of the India Globe , who according to various media accounts, can be counted on to ask questions about India or Pakistan regardless of what happens to be in the news at the moment. There is Les Kinsolving, a Baltimore radio personality who is known for asking off-the-wall questions or, as he puts it on his website, “as one of the few who has the guts to ask probing questions and even providing comic relief.” And then there is — or was — Helen Thomas.

Editors Weblog: US newspaper and TV websites launch Craigslist-rival boocoo

A group of US newspaper and broadcast TV news websites have launched boocoo.com – a listings and auction site to compete against eBay and Craigslist.

Independent: PCC would act on ‘a whiff’ of new phone hacking

“In the advertising world I never felt this beating up of the regulator that I have felt here,” chairwoman of the Press Complaints Commission and former chief executive of the Advertising Association Peta Buscombe tells the Independent. In the interview, Buscombe explains the PCC’s role in the inquiries into allegations of phone hacking at News of the World , for which the commission was criticised by Guardian reporter Nick Davies and the Media Standards Trust : “One of the lessons is that we have to be crystal clear in the way we explain our remit. There was an expectation that we would be able to do more than we felt able to do at the time,” she says

NYT: What would Daniel Ellsberg have done with Pentagon Papers if Wikileaks had existed?

Now that it is relatively simple for anyone in possession of leaked documents to publish them directly to the internet, is there any reason to pass them on to a national newspaper? With the viral advantages of internet publishing and social networking, can dedicated sites such as Wikileaks – which made a huge impact two weeks ago with the release of a classified military video showing the killing of civilians in Baghdad by a United States Apache Gunship – replace mainstream news organisations as the place to take leaked information?

Interview Tips: What is your ideal job?- the BAD answer

A woman, interviewing for an Administrative Assistant position, answers the common interview question: What is your ideal job?

National Online Writers – Business & Careers

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