The International Centre for Media and the Public Agenda has released a study looking at the English-language world's 25 biggest news websites and rated them on their journalistic transparency:

The top five? The Guardian, NYT, BBC, CBS and Christian Science Monitor.

The bottom five? CNN, Al Jazeera English, ITN, Time, Sky News.

(h/t to CJR's The Kicker)

From the AP story on CTV.ca:

Try to control the media? Not me, says Angelina Jolie.

The star of the new film "A Mighty Heart," about the widow of slain reporter Daniel Pearl and freedom of the press, says her representatives were trying to protect her when they sought to make media outlets sign an agreement not to ask personal questions during interviews.

"I didn't put it out there," Jolie said Thursday on "The Daily Show." "It was from my representatives trying to be protective of me, but it was excessive and I wouldn't have put it out there. But it's all right and nobody was forced to do it." ...

Jolie's lawyer, Robert Offer, told The New York Times that he blamed himself -- a "boneheaded, overzealous lawyer" for the contract and that Jolie was unaware of the action. The document "was drafted overly broadly," he said. "It was well intended, but I understand how it was received."