Category: Journalism
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AJ Daulerio and the ethics of online video
[Update: here’s the WITNESS report I talk about below, Cameras Everywhere] I read, via The Browser, a GQ profile of AJ Daulerio, editor of Deadspin, sports outpost of Gawker. Here’s an interesting section I didn’t expect to see, relating to the ethics of raw video: Perhaps Daulerio’s darkest moment came last spring, when he posted…
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Green lions and gravity
The conversations at Newsfoo afforded both the chance to delve deeper into topics and ideas with very sharp-minded people, and to reflect a little bit on a meta level on what all this ceaseless inquiry and activity means. Listening in particular to discussions about sustainability, business models and revenue generation, it made me think of Sir…
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New forms for the long-form
A note: Newsfoo provided me with significant food for thought. I was warned this would happen. The post that sits below is one of many that have been rolling around in my head like little balls of mind-snus since the plane home in early December, but it’s only now I feel that this one has…
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Fooing the (News)Foo
On the first weekend in December, I had the good fortune to be part of a group of 150 people brought together at ASU in Phoenix, Arizona, by O’Reilly, Knight Foundation and Google for Newsfoo, a Foo Camp on the future of news. A friend had been to such things before. I asked her how…
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Your ideas on human rights and free expression on YouTube
[Cross-posted from the YouTube blog] About a month ago, as part of our series of blogs about human rights and video with WITNESS.org, we asked for your thoughts and ideas on some of the key topics on the future of video activism. Now we’re responding to some of your top-voted questions and comments within the Moderator series…
Sameer Padania 