Tag: transparency

• According to [Javed] Jabbar, media’s primary role has to be “social”, because news content is different from any other – it changes attitudes, creates awareness about neighbours, society, country. He further said that profit should not become greed, and called for more transparency in cross media ownership [in Pakistan]. Media’s primary role has to be…

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  16/08/2012

  Clippings, News, Policy, Law & Regulation

  media, mediapolicy.tumblr.com, Pakistan, south asia, transparency

• In keeping with improved accountability within the Department of Defence, from 20 January 2012, Hot Issue Briefs submitted to the Minister for Defence by the Department of Defence will be publicly released. On 20 January 2011, the Minister for Defence released 116 Hot Issue Briefs from the period 14 September 2010 to the present, as…

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  30/01/2012

  Work

  accountability, Australia, freedom of information, military, transparency

• Making news content more transparent

  [October 8th 2014 – Reg Chua’s concept of Structured Journalism (and posts exploring the concept) is the answer to some of my prayers below.] [Update on 22 March, 2011: Professor George Brock of City University is advocating the systematic use of footnotes by journalists to acknowledge primary source material.] [Update on 24 Feb, 2011: in a…

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  13/02/2011

  Journalism, Media, Technology, Work

  accountability, accuracy, blogging, futureofnews, gsxsw, journalism, media, media development, metadata, news, newsfoo, sourcing, structured journalism, transparency

• Tarsniper videos expose police corruption in Morocco

  [Originally published here on the WITNESS Hub Blog.] I’m in a packed Budapest conference room, at the the Global Voices Citizen Media Summit.  Today’s sessions focus on practical tools and measures that networks of activists can take to counteract global censorship efforts. Sami Ben Gharbia, the tireless Director of Advocacy for Global Voices, has just shown us…

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  27/06/2008

  Human rights, Technology, Video

  accountability, censorship, corruption, gvsummit08, Hub Blog, Impunity, morocco, north africa, police, police brutality, poverty, redeyef, tarsniper, transparency, tunisia, WITNESS