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we’ll learn again that information is not enough to build a good society. Sound storytelling is not enough. Actions still speak louder than words. The problems we have in building a good society are in some measure problems of communication but they are not only communication problems but problems of limited resources and competing values and interests, and incompatible world views. But if communication can help, as I believe it can, we cannot turn away from the remarkable openings that the new communication technologies,
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Panel Discusses Emerging Media Model for International News Coverage
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April 29, 2010
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PBS interview on future of news, paywalls and more
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April 27, 2010
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Anthony Barnett on Fred Halliday: "He was a like a one-man international: dedicated and passionate in the cause of justice; hard-headed in insisting upon the obstacles that had to be overcome; scathing about the stupidities of those who proclaimed they were the force of progress; constantly aware of the deeper levels of cultural and religious irrationality and its shaping power – and capable of making astoundingly well-informed judgments about almost anywhere on the planet."
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Tom Slee offers the counter view of Clay shirky
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Evgeny offers to counter view on the impact of the internet
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April 26, 2010
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Given the nature of contemporary art practice, the condition of visual culture, the advent of new technologies, and many other factors, what is at stake today in seeing something as a photograph? What is the value of continuing to speak of photography as a specific practice or discipline? Is photography over?
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April 25, 2010
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the change underway at NPR
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April 22, 2010
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Five key factors in communication - for the UK Leaders debate
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The Professional Pilots Rumour Network Bulletin Board. See what those at the controls think about volcanic ash and more...
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What I want from the Pentagon – and from all militaries – is simple: acknowledgment, transparency, accountability.
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Marketers in particular need to ask really hard questions. Trust is the currency of effective advertising, and yet it's so curiously evasive and increasingly murky.
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A Social media strategy needs infrastructure
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what we’re doing in business isn’t scaling well at all. While each day may look a lot like the last, we must look forward far enough to see that the road we’re on leads to more crises in health care, finance, education, environment, energy, etc. We need to veer slightly today, so we can get where we want to go tomorrow.
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Columbia’s journalism school, generally viewed as the most prominent in the world, hopes its new journalism-plus-computer engineering dual-degree masters program will reinvigorate the news by matriculating journalists who can code. Bell envisions these graduates heading up the newsrooms of tomorrow, bridging the divide between media and tech and creating software that helps journalists work more effectively to wrangle the ridiculous proliferation of data into meaningful information.
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We at Google believe that greater transparency will lead to less censorship online. That's why we are launching a tool that will give people information about the government requests for content removal and user data that Google receives from around the world.
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April 21, 2010
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"We believe that marketing will be much more participatory in the next few years and we want to be at the leading edge of that"
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The channel, which was announced today, is a goldmine for marketers looking to expand their presence and success on YouTube and in the viral video market.
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I got into journalism because I wanted to be a foreign correspondent, but I don't see that as a viable career path
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myth busting in the pro - am debate
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the Internet is actually more ideologically integrated than old-fashioned forms of face-to-face association — like meeting people at work, at church or through community groups. You’re more likely to overlap with political opponents online than in your own neighborhood.
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April 19, 2010
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I look at these videos as a really successful collaboration. Two people were able to produce a radio story and a TV and a Web story in a very efficient manner, whereas in the past it would have taken a crew of video people to create just a TV show. I feel like in terms of the manpower, it’s kind of a new way of working together. It’s not a traditional videographer-reporter relationship. In that way I feel like this was a really successful exercise in new ways of working together.
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a global flowering of innovation on the simple cellphone. From Brazil to India to South Korea and even Afghanistan, people are seeking work via text message; borrowing, lending, and receiving salaries on cellphones; employing their phones as flashlights, televisions and radios.
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Even if poorly understood, the intrusions have left many reporters, including myself, feeling unnerved. One reporter, a friend with many years of experience in China, said she felt violated and angry after learning her e-mail account was compromised. Even more frustrating, she said, was not knowing whom to blame.
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April 18, 2010
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April 15, 2010
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Metropolis is a global collective of civil video journalists and professional filmmakers. The Metropolis correspondents make personal video reports from where they live on a variety of issues and themes. At the moment we work with more than 50 film makers and video bloggers all over the world. Each week we make a trip around the globe on one single issue. On topics such as obesity and the lives of fifteen year old girls, to justice, outcasts and Elvis impersonators, we will present to you one new ‘global view’ every week. By comparing these stories from all over the world we discover surprising differences and similarities between people and cultures worldwide.
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KCRW podcast
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Coverage of international news by the U.S. media has declined significantly in recent years in response to corporate demands for larger profits and an increasingly fragmented audience.
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the rise of the Web and digital technology, combined with the impact of the financial crisis, caused the traditional profile of the international reporter to change. The financial pressures of the 2007 recession hit already vulnerable newsrooms across America, and news organizations began to cut costs, leading to dwindling numbers of foreign correspondents and dwindling coverage of international issues. Foreign bureaus began to close, and media entrepreneurs began to develop new ideas for covering the world.
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the Chicago Tribune finally folded its foreign staff into that of the Los Angeles Times. Some of the Tribune’s correspondents had already quit or been laid-off; others are being called back to the U.S.
Read more: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/evanosnos/2009/03/foreign-corresp.html#ixzz0l9fPNxcF
most of so-called mainstream media, has sharply reduced or outright eliminated its foreign newsgathering operations in the past five years. Always the most expensive and perceived by many even inside the industry as the most expendable form of reporting, foreign news gathering has taken a body blow in the dramatically changing economic environment and the digital refiguring of journalism.
“The need to ensure that SA voice tells compelling international news prompted the launch of these bureaux, but we realised later that strategy and budget didn't match, that is why we made this decision,”
Some personnel move to China and South Korea. Frustration with Japan's exclusive press club system, coupled with Asian stories being overshadowed by the conflict in Iraq, may be causing news organizations to rethink their deployments of resources.
Although television networks have closed many of their expensive foreign outposts, executives say they can cover the world just as well by dispatching reporters from central hubs. But critics say the shuttered offices come at a steep cost to the public. What is the future for foreign news on TV?
there’s now only one foreign correspondent for each 1.3 million people in the US. The closure of Newsday bureaus will lower that number even further, and it wouldn’t be a surprise to see other mid-sized papers closing their foreign bureaus in an attempt to cut costs.
Boston Globe's withdrawal from international reporting 2007
(tags: bostonglobe foreignaffairs foreigncorrespondents newsgathering risj business newspapers future)
If the last few years have indicated anything, it is that cutbacks and downsizing are becoming a norm in journalism. According to The American Association of Newspaper Editors (ASNE), there was a 4.1% decline in newspaper staff from 2001 to 2005.
While some might herald the futuristic era that web-based journalism—with its blogs, tweets, and YouTube videos—is bringing to foreign reporting, Tobias Piller, long-time Rome correspondent for a German newspaper, has a different take. For Piller, relying on nonspecialists and drop-in coverage in place of regular foreign correspondents is, in fact, taking foreign coverage back to earlier days.
China's Internet, like its society and economy as a whole, might move fitfully and incrementally toward greater freedom. Because as activists like Xiaomi grow more creative--and the Great Firewall grows more sophisticated--the Chinese Internet is simply ... growing.
Jonathan Zittrain on why Apple and the iPad are bad.
Renny Gleeson breaks down our always-on social world -- where the experience we're having right now is less interesting than what we'll tweet about it later.
Nicholas Carr puts down those ranting against Apple and the iPad's closed system. Progress hasn't followed their template
"t’s important to understand that three things are coming together: the powerful mobile devices that …are paired with the tremendous performance that we can now get on computers…it is the sum of that, and the capabilities and the technologies that will exploit the sum of that, that will define the next ten or twenty years for all of us. "
THE dark corners of cyberspace are being illuminated by indexing software that can reach into secretive websites that are normally inaccessible to search engines. This could allow search engines to cover online forums lurking within the "dark web", and provide insights into what is being said by groups who would rather keep their conversations secret.
(tags: igf governance search foi freespeech internet web intelligence opensource filtering censorship)
Twitter's hints and examples of best practise for journalists
BBC News debrief on coverage of Haiti
Times coverage of socialmedia and Iran June 2009
The Nation noting the Social Mdia coverage of Iran election aftermath june 2009
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