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Entertainment news editor protests LA sheriff’s search of his personal phone records

donal brown October 22, 2009

A Los Angeles editor of TMZ, an online entertainment news outlet, alleged that the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Office obtained a search warrant for his personal phone records because TMZ had reported that Mel Gibson resisted arrest in 2006, a detail that the editor said the sheriff’s department tried to cover up. -DB LA Observed October 19 2009 By Kevin Roderick Venting in depth for the first time about official prying into his personal phone records,

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With news jobs vanishing, why are journalism schools still enrolling students?

Peter Scheer October 22, 2009

BY PETER SCHEER—As I read about the latest contractions in the newsroom of the New York Times (100 reporters and editors) and the San Francisco Chronicle (investigative reporting staff–gone), the question occurs: Why are universities across the country continuing to churn out journalism graduates? Do they know something that the rest of us don’t? Do they have some reason to believe that demand for academically-trained newbee journalists is about to stage an extraordinary recovery? Job

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New report on saving print journalism recommends government subsidies

donal brown October 21, 2009

The New York Times THE MEDIA EQUATION October 19, 2009 By David Carr A Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism report made six recommendations for salvaging newsrooms, among them to require public broadcasting to devote more resources to covering local news. A more controversial idea is to get the government to fund local news with safeguards to keep them from interfering with editorial decisions. The FCC already spend $7 billion a year from telephone bills

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Secret Service denies access to 2009 White House visitor records

donal brown October 20, 2009

After the Obama administration agreed to start releasing visitor logs starting December 31,  the watchdog group Judicial Watch was denied access to White House visitor logs from January 20 through September 15 of this year and does not understand why only these records merit protection. The Secret Service just says the records do not come from a government agency and so are not subject to the Presidential Records Act. -DB The Reporters Committee for Freedom

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Watchdog groups say that data from Recovery Board first posting of stimulus data inaccessible

donal brown October 19, 2009

A number of groups are saying that the first online posting of data on stimulus spending was not accessible to the public difficult to search and incomplete. Critics say the site can be improved by making it so that the public can mount a search by recipient. -DB NextGov October 15, 2009 By Aliya Sternstein Government officials in charge of tracking spending aimed at stimulating the economy released on Thursday unprecedented details of financial transactions, but

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