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FROM THIS EPIPHANY came the idea of starting a news organisation that extracts the “useful news” from the “useless noise” on the internet, as he puts it. “With the development of social platforms like You Tube, Flickr, Facebook and Twitter, people are talking and they’re having a conversation that is about current events. There’s a huge cloud of information on every single subject and a lot of it is generated much quicker than traditional news.” Little talks about harvesting the “wisdom in the crowd” as opposed to the “wisdom of the crowd” by using computer technology to sift through the vast amounts of information being generated daily. The role of professional journalists would be to “curate” the information produced by the citizen eye-witnesses and deliver global news for an international audience. He isn’t interested in the Irish market as such, but says the expertise is here to make the project work.
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"Everyone is entitled to his own opinion but not to his own facts" Daniel Patrick Moynihan
December 19, 2009
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December 18, 2009
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How a chance encounter and two hours changed the life of Michael Rosenblum
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December 16, 2009
Public Media in the US
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AUSTRALIA will join China in implementing mandatory censoring of the internet under plans put forward by the Federal Government. The revelations emerge as US tech giants Google, Microsoft and Yahoo, and a coalition of human rights and other groups unveiled a code of conduct aimed at safeguarding online freedom of speech and privacy.
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December 15, 2009
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An overview of global internet censhorship by Ron Deibert of CitizenLab
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December 14, 2009
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Former DPP Ken Macdonald hits out: "The members of the Chilcot Inquiry have a choice: they can be loyal to the Establishment or they can expose the subterfuge"
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From the BBC College of Journalism website
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December 11, 2009
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"It is a far cry from the scrutiny of America's Capitol Hill or the milder forensic thrust of a Hutton or a Butler. This appears as a very British inquest, an intrusion into the private grief, or perhaps the self-styled triumph, of one man, Tony Blair. But who knows? Perhaps still waters yet run deep."
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December 08, 2009
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It's not Twitter or Facebook that's reinventing the planet. Eighty years after the first commercial broadcast crackled to life, television still rules our world
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The flow of accurate information, diverse views and proper analysis is critical for a functioning democracy. We also acknowledge that it has been difficult for newspapers to make money from their online content. But just as there is no single cause of the industry's current problems, there is no single solution. We want to work with publishers to help them build bigger audiences, better engage readers, and make more money.
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A modest but growing number of members pay to participate in weekly conference calls with reporters on stories and the regions in which they report. News outlets including the New York Daily News, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the South China Morning Post, a French language news agency and a major Cambodian newspaper are paying GlobalPost to republish its stories.
Perhaps most daringly, GlobalPost charges private clients thousands of dollars to commission specific reports for their own reading.
The ARTICLE 19 Defamation Maps chart the extent to which free expression is undermined by defamation proceedings in countries around the world.The maps reflect how the protection of reputation is often disproportionally exploited to restrict freedom of expression.
Defamation law protects an individual’s reputation or feelings from unwarranted attacks. Nearly all countries have some form of protection, although it can have different names such as libel, calumny, slander, insult, desacato, lese majeste and so on. The form and content of defamation laws differ widely. Some countries have specific written defamation statutes and others only have articles in more general laws.
According to Freedom House’s Freedom of the Press index, after two decades of progress, press freedom is now in decline in almost every part of the world. Only 17 percent of the world's citizens live in countries that enjoy a free press.
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December 03, 2009
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Case study of 4 scandanavian sites - on average an item earns $188
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December 02, 2009
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Arianna's response to Rupert: "It's the news industry equivalent of "your mama wears army boots!" Although, not quite as persuasive.
In most industries, if your customers were leaving in droves, you would try to figure out what to do to get them back. Not in the media. They'd rather accuse aggregators of stealing their content."
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