Augmented Reality Invades Newsrooms, Kids’ Shows, Ads
You point your wireless device — cell phone, iPad, whatever — at a graphic on a box of unassembled furniture and then the instructions, complete with 3-D diagrams, instantly appear on-screen. Point at a piece of paper and it’s suddenly a game board shared by friends across the room or across the world.
Center of Public Integrity’s new HTML5 effort for reading long-form online
The Center for Public Integrity’s first HTML5 project is live. The idea behind the project is to make reading long-form journalism enjoyable on any digital platform, by creating an app-like experience in a web browser. There has been some concern among news organisations that online, at least, it is more difficult to appreciate long in-depth articles than it is in print.
MAIN FOCUS: Insufficient protection for Russia’s journalists | 11/11/2010
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has called for better protection for journalists after unidentified assailants brutally attacked the reporter Oleg Kashin on the weekend. Commentators write that critical journalists still live dangerously in Russia, but note that violations against press freedom also exist in the West.
Italian journalistic institutions urge government action on conditions of freelancers
Journalistic institutions in Italy have launched an initiative to push parliament and the ministry of work to create a law that would fix minimum standards for the payment and treatment of freelance journalists, reported LSDI. The effort follows the publication of an ebook on the condition of journalists in Italy, written and published by LSDI.
Canada leading the way in data journalism?
Reuters’ David Schlesinger on the safety of journalists in warzones
Second Russian reporter attacked
Web Shames Magazine for Plagiarizing Blogger?s Article
from Mashable! by Lauren Indvik
?U.S. News & World Report? Goes Digital-Only
from Mashable! by Lauren Indvik
Sarkozy accused of instructing secret service to spy on journalists
French satirical weekly Le Canard enchainé has claimed that president Nicolas Sarkozy personally supervises a security team that spies on journalists who write stories that might embarrass the government. The allegations follow a lawsuit brought by Le Monde in September that accused the government of illegally investigating its journalists’ sources, and burglaries of the homes of journalists from Le Monde, Médiapart and Le Point.
The Web Estate: a response to Alan Rusbridger, Anthony Barnett
The Guardian?s Editor-in-Chief, Alan Rusbridger has published an important online overview of the ?Fourth Estate?. It marks an innovation for Comment is Free. Natalie Hanman, who edits its pages describes this piece as a ?long-form blog? – in which a writer is given space to explore a subject in depth.