The Mediocracy Blog
Analysis, news and opinion on the media crisis and the future of journalism.
Fourth Estate Foreclosure Why We Need a National Endowment for Journalism
2009 promises to be another tough year for the journalism industry, and it looks like it’s our turn to take a beating here in Seattle. The imminent closure of the Seattle Post –Intelligencer, the city’s oldest and second largest newspaper was announced last week, just a few months after the second round of major staff cutbacks in 2008 went down at our other major newspaper, the Seattle Times.
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Categories: Pacific Northwest, USA, Blogs, The Media, Politics and Conflict
Voting Global
On September 11th, I flew back to Seattle after almost a year reporting in Asia and the Middle East for independent media.
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Categories: USA, Blogs, Politics and Conflict
Journalism and Democracy Sarah Stuteville on KUOW's Weekday
The face of journalism is changing. Traditional newspapers are declining. Television networks are becoming more streamlined and editorial in their content. What kind of journalism does a democracy need in order to thrive? How do you define good journalism? CLP reporter Sarah Stuteville joined a panel on KUOW's Weekday discussing these issues and more.
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Categories: Listen, CLP Updates, The Media
Pakistan's Viral Video
The release of a grainy video showing a girl being flogged for adultery by the Taliban in the Swat valley has created an uproar in Pakistan. In this video-blog, journalist Alex Stonehill discusses why, amidst all the violence in Pakistan, this particular video has evoked such a reaction.
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Categories: Pakistan, Watch, Blogs, Human Rights, Gender, The Media
Getting Our Minds Into the Gutter Media Coverage for Global Sanitation Issues
An estimated 35,000 people died last week as the 5th World Water Forum convened in Istanbul, Turkey. If you didn’t hear the news, don’t be surprised – the 35,000 deaths the week before, and the week before that, didn’t grab any headlines either.
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Categories: Turkey, Blogs, The Environment, The Media, Poverty and Development
The Journalism Hustle
The CLP's latest investigative feature hit the newsstands – er, Internets – last night. The punch-drunk Seattle P-I posted on the Tacoma Immigration Detention Center as a web-only feature about 25 headlines below the lead story about who has a heavily anticipated art opening in Greenwood tonight.
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Categories: Pacific Northwest, USA, Blogs, Labor and Immigration, The Media
Pakistan: Education at a Crossroads
Pakistan gets plenty of press for bomb attacks and international terrorist threats. After two months traveling the country last year, CLP journalists found that the ongoing crisis here has its roots in a corrupt and collapsing education system that is feeding poverty, discontent and violence.
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