Media

Quality Lacking in Online News Boom, FCC Says

Staff / Truthdig Jun 10, 2011 The FCC has produced a massive study on the state of local Internet news in the U.S., confirming what many of us already know: A proliferation of online news outlets has not yielded a corresponding increase in the kind of in-depth, quality reporting needed to keep private interests and government in check. (more) Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Another Failed War

Staff / Truthdig Jun 6, 2011 The "war on drugs" is failing; a teen in China sells his kidney for an iPad 2; and "Sesame Street" admits to spreading propaganda. These discoveries and more after the jump. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Chinese Hackers Bust Into U.S. Gmail Accounts

Staff / Truthdig Jun 2, 2011 The Google email accounts of hundreds of American journalists and government and military officials were successfully raided as part of a spear-phishing operation conducted by Chinese hackers who tricked their targets into signing in on a decoy login page. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Hackers Punish PBS for ‘Less Than Impressive’ WikiLeaks Show

Staff / Truthdig May 31, 2011 "Less than impressed" with "Frontline's" "WikiSecrets" episode, a hacker or group of hackers called LulzSec hijacked the PBS.org website late Sunday night, posting, among other things, a fake news story claiming Tupac Shakur is alive and living in New Zealand. If you caught "WikiSecrets," you might sympathize with the crusading hacker(s). (more) Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

SPJ Recognizes the Genius of Mr. Fish (Again)

Staff / Truthdig May 12, 2011 For the second year in a row, the Society of Professional Journalists has picked our resident genius artist, Dwayne Booth -- you know him as Mr. Fish -- as the recipient of its prestigious Sigma Delta Chi Award for Editorial Cartooning in the Online Independent category. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Skin Product Company Offers Journalists Cash for Favorable Coverage

Staff / Truthdig May 10, 2011 The scholarly sounding American Institute of Advanced Medicine is circulating a letter that asks newspaper editors to publish a promotional press release in exchange for $100 for every new customer the "editorial" ad creates. (more) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Obama Faked It for the Cameras

Staff / Truthdig May 6, 2011 There was just one camera in the room with President Obama when he announced the death of Osama bin Laden -- the one beaming his address to television. Afterward, a group of still photographers was let in and the president went through the motions, walking to the podium and pretending to speechify for 30 seconds. (more) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Truthdig Wins 2011 Webby for Best Political Blog

Staff / Truthdig May 4, 2011 Once again, Truthdig has won the Webby Award, the juried version, in the "Blog -- Political" category for the second year in a row The competition consisted of four widely read sites on top of their game: "Close Read" on The New Yorker, Comedy Central's Indecision (more). Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Al-Jazeera: ‘Return Our Journalist’

Staff / Truthdig May 3, 2011 Al-Jazeera journalist Dorothy Parvaz, 39, has gone missing after landing in Damascus on Friday to cover the events in Syria, the news agency says. Dozens of journalists are reported to have been detained by the Syrian government since the uprisings began in mid-March. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Pulitzer Source Says New York Times Didn’t Submit WikiLeaks Reporting

Staff / Truthdig Apr 20, 2011 Forbes reports that The New York Times didn't win for WikiLeaks stories because it didn't enter them. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

U.K. Courts to Journalists: Stow It

Staff / Truthdig Apr 18, 2011 Parliamentary official John Hemming has drawn attention to a new type of court order forbidding members of Britain's fourth estate to cover cases deemed too sensitive for public consideration The order, known as a super-injunction (more). Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Fox News to Drop Glenn Beck’s Show

Staff / Truthdig Apr 7, 2011 Although Glenn Beck himself is characterizing the change as a "new phase" of his "partnership" with Roger Ailes' conservative-magnet cable channel, the bottom line of this story is that Beck's show will be phased out of the Fox News programming lineup later this year. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )