Category: Journalism
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Journalism innovation and experimentation search engine
I’m playing with Google Custom Search Engine (CSE), and here’s the result – a search engine focused on journalism innovation and experimentation. It currently indexes ~50 sites related to different aspects of journalism, including industry news and analysis, individual analysts and commentators, academic and civil society organisations, philanthropic funders of journalism, and networks of media…
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The two sides of “Why are you still here?”
Politico’s piece about NYT Executive Editor Jill Abramson is – rightly – causing a storm over double standards in the treatment of women in power. Emily Bell’s piece pins the problem quite precisely. My one observation on this is to compare how Politico characterises Abramson: In one meeting, Abramson was upset with a photograph that…
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UK television and the developing world
As part of its UK Public Opinion Monitor research, which aims to track the UK public’s attitudes towards development, the Institute of Development Studies at Sussex recently released this 10-minute film pleading for better coverage by UK television of the developing world, and of issues related to poverty: The film revisits arguments advanced over many years by the International…
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Article on new media and human rights in The Interdependent
I forgot to cross-post this, which I wrote in December for the UNA-USA’s The Interdependent: How we communicate and connect, how we see and document the world around us, how we express ourselves—all have been transformed over the past decade. Hundreds of millions of us on every continent experience this directly in our daily lives, from…
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Fact-checking, redux
This year’s Newsfoo felt to me rather different from the 2010 edition. There seemed to be less discussion of how to sustain or resource news, or about the contexts of news consumption, and more about how to deal with some of the cognitive, knowledge-management and even ethical issues of news journalism. This post is on initiatives/tools…
Sameer Padania 