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Public Interest Journalism

Watching the Watchdog: Saving Canadian Journalism From Itself

Tim Knight | Posted 10.29.2012 | Canada
Read More: Cbc, Newspapers, Le Devoir, Public Interest Journalism, Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Canadian Association of Journalists, Code of Silence, Journalism, Profit, Private Broadcasters, Death and Life of American Journalism, Media Companies, John Nichols, Robert W. McChesney, Canadian Democracy, Investigative Reporting, Canada News
Tim Knight

Slowly, slowly, the dwindling band of journalists who survive all the cuts are being acclimatized to the notion that their job is no longer to serve the people in our democracy -- a tradition proudly built up over the past couple of hundred years, often at great cost -- but to serve their employer. So why don't we, the people, take over -- subsidize our precious democratic journalism ourselves? Here's the plan.

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Watching the Watchdog: Have We Forgotten the Media's Raison D'Être?

Tim Knight | Posted 06.05.2012 | Canada
Read More: Traditional Professional Journalism, Free Marketplace of Ideas, Citizen Journalists, Ethical Professional Journalism, Mainstream Journalism, Myspace Journalism, Journalism Blogs, Public Interest Journalism, Democracy Journalism, Blogs Journalism, Twitter Journalism, Facebook Journalism, Canada News
Tim Knight

Traditional professional journalism is taking a beating these days. When challenged, both left and right sneer at is as "mainstream journalism," implying that its somehow tainted because it's general interest, rather than some rabidly one-sided screed. So allow me to answer back.

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