Our TV office did the hard work when they opened a bureau here in 2006. We went in as their partner, but it is clear to the North Korean regime that we are one company. Aside from that, there are two main reasons: firstly, my colleagues and I have been working here for years, so we have a certain longevity. Secondly, AP is the largest news organization in the world. We are completely independent and funded by international subscribers. If the regime wanted to make a political statement about the direction it is heading, this is it. North Korea is taking a big risk in working with us. Technically the US and North Korea are still at war—to reach out to an American company goes against decades of policy. Hopefully we can pave the way for other media.
Behind the News
11:00 AM - August 2, 2012
The AP’s North Korea bureau
Yep, they’ve had one, based in the country’s capital, for seven months
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Michael Hastings: my friend and his enemies
Hastings was fearless and shook things up - especially with his McChrystal expose. The haters in the media couldn’t forgive him
Journalism is about finding flaws and magnifying them, and surely someone who would spill massive loads of state secrets must contain a few broken parts, right?
Call it the Politico rhetorical crutch
The inside-the-beltway publication’s go-to phrase
Rachel Maddow’s tribute to Michael Hastings
“Michael was angry … he was angry about things that weren’t right in the world. He was angry with war and with loss, and that drove his reporting.”
CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
Uptown Messenger – Hyperlocal news for a neighborhood in New Orleans
Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
"I also work with them in training our North Korean journalists, because their form of journalism is propaganda."
That's awfully rich, coming from the Associated Press.
#1 Posted by Dan A., CJR on Fri 3 Aug 2012 at 02:24 PM
Who better to offer propaganda training than the AP?
#2 Posted by padikiller, CJR on Sat 4 Aug 2012 at 11:59 AM
As one who has questioned the AP's relationship with the North Korean regime that it covers, I'm disappointed that the Columbia Journalism Review missed the opportunity to review a form of journalism that raises so many ethical questions, slow-pitching softballs instead of asking hard questions. It's baffling, for example, that the CJR passed on asking a single question about this:
http://freekorea.us/2012/08/03/ap-watch-columbia-journalism-review-misses-the-opportunity-to-review-journalism/
#3 Posted by Joshua Stanton, CJR on Tue 14 Aug 2012 at 09:45 PM