Society gossip columnist Gillian Cosgrove has been dropped by the National Post after a Nov. 22 column on Gov.-Gen. Adrienne Clarkson.

Since I don't wish to repeat potentially libelous statements, I won't say what that column was about....   more »

Over at Blog on Blog, Samantha Israel asked: How important is the reader-writer relationship? The greater the interaction, the greater the journalist? Or are blogs taking it too far?

Here's my response (afterthoughts and ...   more »

Back in September, I got to do my first-ever interview with a real, live director: Shane Carruth, who created Primer. His film is now off the festival circuit and in theatres!

Here's some links to ...   more »

I saw this link from Opinionjournal.com via Cyberjournalist.net. It's quite amusing. See for yourself.

Cyberjournalist points to it as a classic example of why human editors still aren't obsolete.

Anyway, the story is listed as ...   more »

British MP George Galloway comments in The Guardian on his libel victory over conservative paper The Telegraph. It claimed to have found documents in post-April 9, 2003 Baghdad showing the anti-Iraq-war Galloway had received payments from the Iraq regime of Saddam Hussein.

Eugene Volokh, a UCLA law professor who writes for the Volokh Conspiracy blog, asks some questions in an NYT op ed piece about what happens to protecting source confidentiality when everyone's a journalist.

An excerpt:...   more »