State of Journalism in the Americas

Posted by Stephen Peacock - October 23, 2005 at 5:49 am
The role of a journalist in the Americas and globally is a precarious one, fraught with a combination of physical danger from hostile forces as well as undue pressure from corporate boardrooms and governmental bodies. The Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas, based in the University of Texas at Austin, focuses its efforts on tracking such developments through a weekly news compilation/summary and Web site in English, Spanish and Portuguese. This past week's e-mail update, for instance, offers a link to a Periodista Digital interview with the President of Journalists Federation, who says, as the interpreted title asserts, that "Third World Journalism Acts as [an] Arm of [the] State."  

Listed nation-by-nation, the compilation also offers links to articles such as "Former Pinochet Agents Admit Killing Reporter in 1986" (Terra), "Radio Journalist Kidnapped, Attacked after Denouncing Abuse of TV Workers" (AP via El Nuevo Herald), and this sad story about a sports reporter from Missouri who was mercilessly beaten to death by two coke-snorting young men in search of cash (Wichita Eagle).

Fear not, NarcoNewsistas, as you will see that the Knight Center service supplements -- not supplants -- what the Narco News Bulletin and the Narcosphere has to offer. In fact, you may find that the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas affirms our contributions.

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I'm currently a high school English teacher and writer. I'm also a former Washington, DC, journalist, having worked for Communications Daily and Washington Internet Daily (WID), investigative newsletters that cover the telecommunications, broadcast and Internet industries. Following the 9/11 attacks, my news beat expanded beyond Capitol Hill telecom/TV/IT policy and began to include technology-policy coverage at the Pentagon and Dept. of Homeland Security. I've written over a thousand articles about government and industry affairs, and I'm pleased to say that I was the reporter who broke the story about the Total Information Awareness surveillance/data-collection initiative of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. I've written articles for publications including NACLA Report on the Americas, Drug Enforcement Report, Corrections Journal, and The Tampa Tribune. I've also written a memoir about my former career as a plainclothes security officer of the Helmsley Palace hotel in New York City, Hotel Dick: Harlots, Starlets, Thieves & Sleaze.
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I'm currently a high school English teacher and writer. I'm also a former Washington, DC, journalist, having worked for Communications Daily and Washington Internet Daily (WID), investigative newsletters that cover the telecommunications, broadcast and Internet industries. Following the 9/11 attacks, my news beat expanded beyond Capitol Hill telecom/TV/IT policy and began to include technology-policy coverage at the Pentagon and Dept. of Homeland Security. I've written over a thousand articles about government and industry affairs, and I'm pleased to say that I was the reporter who broke the story about the Total Information Awareness surveillance/data-collection initiative of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. I've written articles for publications including NACLA Report on the Americas, Drug Enforcement Report, Corrections Journal, and The Tampa Tribune. I've also written a memoir about my former career as a plainclothes security officer of the Helmsley Palace hotel in New York City, Hotel Dick: Harlots, Starlets, Thieves & Sleaze.