This is a great list of blogs by Journalists who are blogging and also journalism academics. This list includes 50 blogs, including journalists who share some tips and expertise. This is a treasure.
"We invited people to nominate blogs via Twitter and received a good number of responses, many of which we have included here."
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Ben Affleck is interviewed by Fresh Air's host Terry Gross. The movie has won awards at the Golden Globes. "The film, which Affleck produced and in which he also stars, is the mostly true story of the CIA operative who helmed the rescue of six U.S. diplomats who managed to escape at the outset of the 1979 Iran crisis that held 52 Americans hostage for 444 days after militants took over the American Embassy in Tehran. Affleck, a Middle Eastern studies major in college, was a child when the crisis happened and does not remember the news coverage."
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This is an interview with liberal Israeli writer Amos Oz. I enjoyed reading the answer to "Does it ever snow in the desert?" Take a moment to also read his answer on finding time to work on journalism as well.
"I write articles not because I’m asked to, but because I’m filled with rage. I feel I have to tell my government what to do and, sometimes, where to go. Not that they listen. Then I drop everything and write an essay, which is always published here first, then picked up by The New York Times, or England’s Guardian or another publication. You see, I’m not a political analyst or commentator. I write from a sense of injustice and my revolt against it. But I can write an article only when I agree with myself one hundred percent, which is not my normal condition—normally I’m in partial disagreement with myself and can identify with three or five different views and different feelings about the same issue."
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