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Authors See Violence's Social Effect
 Rumbo de Mexico
Young adults are examining the ties between literature and violence at the ongoing First National Young Writers Conference in Monterrey.
LatAm Journalists Face New Opposition
 Alexei Barrionuevo
In recent months, journalists across the region have faced opposition not only from courts but also from the leaders of several countries, who have moved to restrict critical coverage and paint the news media as the enemy.
Files Prove Pentagon is Profiling Reporters
 Stars and Stripes
Contrary to the insistence of Pentagon officials this week that they are not rating the work of reporters covering U.S. forces in Afghanistan, Stars and Stripes has obtained documents that prove that reporters' coverage is being graded as "positive," "neutral" or "negative."
2nd Man Killed in Office Probing Reporter's Death
 Associated Press
Gunmen killed the aide of a Mexican federal agent investigating the death of a crime reporter – a month after the first agent assigned to the case was shot dead, authorities said Thursday.
The Media Can't Handle the Truth; Media Sheep Facing Truth-Hungry Internet Wolves
 Gene Lyons
The safest place during a stampede is the middle of the herd. Establishment journalists with mortgages, car payments and children in private schools saw what happened to the Dixie Chicks. Why couldn't it happen to them?
Report: 52 Mexican Reporters Killed in Last Decade
 E. Eduardo Castillo
The head of Mexico's National Human Rights commission said Wednesday that 52 journalists or media workers have been killed in the last decade and that most of the slayings remain unsolved.
Fox News Feeds on US Public Anger
 David Bauder
South Carolina Republican Bob Inglis, frustrated by a restive crowd at a recent forum to discuss health care reform, suggested people turn off the TV when Fox News Channel's Glenn Beck came on. Big mistake.
If You Can Count, You Can Write A Book
 David Lyons
I've recently begun another novel. It's been awhile since I've started on something new. Fiction, non-fiction, it all begins with an idea, usually one you can express in ten words or less. You've got an idea? Then start writing. It's as easy as 1-2-3.
Mexico Commission Slams US Reporter's Death Report
 Associated Press
Mexico's National Human Rights Commission on Thursday criticized a report commissioned by federal prosecutors that supports the official assertion that U.S. journalist Bradley Will was fatally shot at close range during a protest three years ago.
 Now on YouTube, Local News
 Brian Stelter
With its ability to collect articles and sell advertisements against them, Google has already become a huge force in the news business — and the scourge of many newspapers. Now its subsidiary YouTube wants to do the same thing to local television.
Fiction Corner: Outing Montezuma
 Jan Baumgartner
Somehow against all odds, or perhaps in perfect harmony with the macabre humor of the malevolent spirits of amor, I ended up in A Tail of Two Cities, a place that was the best of all possible worlds and at the same time, the biggest incestuous mound of excrement I had ever stepped into...
Cronkite's Unintended Legacy
 Robert Parry
With his measured calm and seriousness of purpose, Walter Cronkite set a high standard for television journalism that has rarely been met since his retirement in 1981. But the legendary CBS anchorman who died Friday also may have unintentionally contributed to the American Left's dangerous complacency about media.
That's the Way It Is: Walter Cronkite Dies
 Frazier Moore
The death of Walter Cronkite elicited tributes from colleagues, presidents past and present, world-famous astronauts and those who hoped in vain to fill his empty anchor chair, all honoring the avuncular face of TV journalism who became the "most trusted man in America."
Rewriting Fiction
 David Lyons
You've spent perhaps a year or more writing your first manuscript. You've read and reread the work, corrected typo and grammatical errors, maybe even made changes where you thought they were needed. But for most of us of modest ability, there's still a long way to go...
GOP Rep: Michael Jackson Was a 'Low Life'
 Agence France-Presse
Music superstar Michael Jackson was a "pervert" and "a child molester" and the media has disgraced itself with the day-in, day-out coverage of his death, a US lawmaker has charged.
The New Global Economic Reality
 Charles Simpson
Mexico is in a unique position to reap many of the benefits of the decline of the US economy. In order to not violate NAFTA and other agreements the U.S.A. cannot use direct protectionism, so it is content to allow the media to play a protectionist role.
Drama and Diplomacy Author Jenny McGill Launches Website
 Robin Noelle
Author Jenny McGill recently announced the launch of her new website, which features sample chapters and audio readings of her book 'Drama and Diplomacy in Sultry Puerto Vallarta,' which covers her fourteen years as the US Consular Agent in Puerto Vallarta during the 1980's and 90's.
Guatemala: Journalists in Jeopardy
 Danilo Valladares
Veteran television reporter Rolando Santiz was on his way to downtown Guatemala City on Apr. 1 when two gunmen on a motorcycle drove up alongside his car and killed him in a rain of gunfire. The photographer driving with him was wounded but miraculously survived.
Special Report: Reporting, and Surviving, in Ciudad Juárez
 Mike O’Connor
In one of Mexico’s most dangerous cities, reporting the news requires extreme caution. Self-censorship and manipulation of the news are constants.
Register Now for Travel Classics West 09
 PVNN
Registration for the Travel Classics West 2009 conference, scheduled to be held from October 15-18 at the Fairmont Scottsdale Resort, is officially open to professional travel writers who have published a minimum of three major magazine articles within the last 18 months.
Newscaster, Once Mocked, Now Casts Mock News
 Tim Arango
In the days before mock news became a genre in itself, Bobbie Battista, the ever-present face on CNN during the 1980s and ’90s, was often parodied in segments of “Saturday Night Live.” These days Ms. Battista, 56, is in on the joke herself.
Media Smearing of Truth Movement Reaching a Crescendo
 James Corbett
Recent months have seen numerous breakthroughs for the truth movement in the corporate media. Despite these positive developments, however, primetime TV dramas are continuing to portray those skeptical of the official 9/11 story as deranged terrorists who are likely to commit acts of violence.
World’s Largest Gathering of Travel Journalists and Photographers to Take Place in Guadalajara, Mexico
 The Society of American Travel Writers
The largest gathering of professional travel writers and photographers in 2009 will take place in Guadalajara, Mexico on October 8-13 when the Society of American Travel Writers (SATW) holds their annual convention here.
Avila TV Venezuela: Revolutionizing Television
 Lainie Cassel
In Venezuela they are a key force in the country’s ongoing media-war. Armed with video cameras, they are a team of some 380 young people working for Caracas television station, Avila TV. Started as an experiment just three years ago, according to one study it is now the third most watched station in the city.
5 Arrested in Killing of Mexican Crime Reporter
 Istra Pacheco
Five suspects have been arrested in the killing of a veteran crime reporter in northern Mexico, including one man who told authorities the journalist was slain as a warning against meddling with a powerful drug cartel, authorities said Friday.
O'Reilly and Fox News Will Have More Right-Wing Violence to Answer For
 Eric Boehlert
If Fox News is going to continue to traffic in hateful, vigilante-style rhetoric, then folks at Fox News, as well as their apologists in the GOP Noise Machine, are going to have to come up with better talking points to spin away the consequences of the right-wing madness they're so eager to incite.
Planet Earth 2010 Travel Writers Contest
 Karen Misuraca
The Bay Area Travel Writers organization, based in San Francisco, announces its latest travel book and travel article competition for writers from around the United States - and the world. Travel journalists, writers and authors are welcome to enter the Planet Earth Awards 2010 contest.
Writing About Writers: Puerto Vallarta and Jenny McGill
 Marvin West
'Drama and Diplomacy in Sultry Puerto Vallarta' author Jenny McGill tells it like it is. If you ask enticing questions, you get exciting answers: about her 35 years in Mexico, about beauty and bandits, about Fourth of July parties and the fake gardener who fleeced her out of $35...
Mexico's Only English-Language Daily Sold; Staff Cut by Two-Thirds
 Deborah Bonello
Mexico’s only national English-language daily newspaper, the News, based in Mexico City, was bought by a Mexican media company, and dozens of staffers were laid off over the weekend, a development that left employees standing outside the newspaper’s offices “looking bewildered,” according to an editorial in the paper Monday morning.
Mexico Offers $380,000 Reward in Journalist Murder
 Associated Press
Mexico's top prosecutor on Thursday offered a $380,000 reward for information in the kidnapping and murder of a newspaper reporter who was found beaten and dead in an irrigation canal in northern Mexico this week.
Study: Americans Choose Media Messages that Agree with Their Views
 Jeff Grabmeier
A new study provides some of the strongest evidence to date that Americans prefer to read political articles that agree with the opinions they already hold.
Mexican Journalist Killed in Durango
E. Eduardo Castillo
The body of a veteran crime reporter was found in an irrigation ditch early Tuesday in the drug-plagued northern Mexican state of Durango, hours after he was kidnapped by gunmen from his home.
Media Ignores Real Controversy Behind Torture Photos; They Show Prison Guards Raping Children
 Paul Joseph Watson
The real reason behind Obama’s reversal of a decision to release the torture photos has been almost completely ignored by the corporate media - the fact that the photos show both US and Iraqi soldiers raping teenage boys in front of their mothers.
Components of a Story
 David Lyons
So, what is story? Look it up in the dictionary and you won't find much there to help you if you want to write one. One of the 'how-to' books I once read offered the following equation. Conflict + action + resolution = story. It's a good starting point, but I think it needs some amplification...
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