Category: Media
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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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Beppe Grillo: Italian population living in a “gigantic ‘Truman Show’”
So the long-standing debate about the independence of Italy’s public broadcaster, RAI – addressed in Mapping Digital Media: Italy, and by the Open Media Coalition, Italy’s media reform movement – has now received the Grillo treatment. Italian comedian Beppe Grillo last week accelerated debate in Italy about the independence of broadcast media and journalism from…
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Advocacy’s long and winding road
As citizens continue to play a critical role in supplying news and human rights footage from around the world, YouTube is committed to creating even better tools to help them. According to the international human rights organization WITNESS’ Cameras Everywhere report, “No video-sharing site or hardware manufacturer currently offers users the option to blur faces…
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What Image Opened Your Eyes to Human Rights? (from the archives…)
When I worked at WITNESS, we debated hotly how to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 2008. We wanted to do something that felt contemporary, that felt open as a campaign, and that anyone – anyone – would have a response to and could run with. What we came…
Sameer Padania 