by Jorge Rivas, Colorlines Magazine
Former journalist and Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal's death sentence was thrown out on Tuesday October 11th by the Supreme Court.
| Mumia Abu-Jamal Death Penalty Thrown Out by Supreme Court by Jorge Rivas, Colorlines Magazine Former journalist and Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal's death sentence was thrown out on Tuesday October 11th by the Supreme Court. |
 | Right-Wing Attacks on Pacifica Broadcasts of Al-Jazeera English Pacifica Radio found itself the target of right-wing attacks after it began airing a daily newscast from Al-Jazeera Engish in major media markets across the country. |
 | A Left Mayoral Forum MA joined with a dozen Oakland community groups to sponsor an October 11th forum hosted by Wilson Riles Jr. Watch the video! |
 | Turmoil at PBS by Michael Getler, PBS PBS Ombudsman Michael Getler discusses the uproar over the Bechtel/Schwab-funded documentary: Turmoil and Triumph: The George Schultz Years. |
 | Toronto Police Give Journalists the Once-Over at G-20 Summit Numerous reports have been filed on the over-the-top behavior of the Canadian police during the G-20 summit in Toronto. Journalists received a fair share of the punishment. |
 | Ruben Navarette Jr Laid off at San Diego Tribune by Journalisms, Maynard Institute Ruben Navarrette Jr., the most widely syndicated Hispanic columnist in the mainstream news media, is being laid off from his job as editorial writer and columnist at the San Diego Union-Tribune. |
| Friends in Trouble: UC Protests Two long-time MA friends are among the many facing some trouble for participating in the Education Day of Action on March 4th. |
 | World Day Against Cyber Censorship - March 12th From Reporters Without Borders: Today 118 netizens are behind bars around the world, while thousands of websites have been shutdown in the past year alone. |
 | Crass TV Show Pulls the Plug on All Student Media at UC-San Diego by Elliot Spagatt, Associated Press The University of California, San Diego has halted funding for student media after a TV segment ridiculed black students outraged by a party mocking Black History Month. |
 | Media Alliance Statement on Flashpoints by Tracy Rosenberg October 18th, 2009 As longtime advocates in KPFA's struggle a decade ago and the network democratization that followed: here are our thoughts on the appeal put out by Flashpoints after the program was hit hard by budgetary reductions. |
| National Writer's Union Opposes Google Book-Scanning Settlement The National Writers Union today announced its opposition to the proposed $125 million settlement of a class-action copyright infringement lawsuit brought by writers and publishers against Google because its massive book-scanning project violated their copyrights. |
| Media Alliance's Spot.us Tips Spot.us is an exciting initiative in community-funded journalism that directly connects journalists with citizens who want to see stories told. |
| What Happened to INN? The International News Net (INN), a 5-day a week newscast on Free Speech TV, produced for seven years by a largely volunteer progressive news collective, recently canceled production. What happened? |
| Bay Area Toxic Tour Spot.us is an innovative direct-funding mechanism for independent journalism. Check out the recent story on the Port of Oakland and pollution in East Oakland. |
| Reporter Ordered to Hand Over Tapes of Anti-War Protests Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press A reporter for a cable-access show in Chicago was ordered by a federal magistrate judge last week to hand over every video recording he made documenting anti-war protests from 2003 to 2005. |
| KPFA Unpaid Staff Organization (UPSO) Regains Management Recognition After a 21-month struggle, the unpaid journalists and producers at Berkeley community radio station KPFA, have reinstated their UPSO (Unpaid Staff Organization) bargaining unit to fully-recognized status. |
| Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable by Clay Shirky, Shirky.com Back in 1993, the Knight-Ridder newspaper chain began investigating piracy of Dave Barry’s popular column, which was published by the Miami Herald and syndicated widely. |
| The Death and Life of Great American Newspapers by Robert McChesney and John Nichols, The Nation Magazine Communities across America are suffering through a crisis that could leave a dramatically diminished version of democracy in its wake. It is not the economic meltdown, although the crisis is related to the broader day of reckoning that appears to have arrived. The crisis of which we speak involves more than mere economics. Journalism is collapsing, and with it comes the most serious threat in our lifetimes to self-government and the rule of law as it has been understood here in the United States. |
| Video of "A Conversation About the Chronicle" Video of the Society of Professional Journalists event "A Conversation About the Chronicle" at the San Francisco Public Library at: http://sanfrancisco.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?publish_id=460 |
| And Then They Came For Me ... The eloquent last words of the assassinated Sri Lankan journalist Lasantha Wickramatunga. |