press freedom rankings- US also slumps… a journalism roundup
US slumps in press freedom rankings
from Boing Boing by Rob Beschizza
In this year’s Reporters Without Borders international press freedom index, the U.S. slumped to 47th place, a fall of 27 places, largely due to arrests of journalists covering protests. The full report is available in PDF format. [RSF]
3 Laws for Journalists in a Data-Saturated World
from MediaShift
At the Cyberspace Conference in London in November, Igor Shchegolev, the Russian minister of communications and mass media, referred to sci-fi writer Isaac Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics:
How Social Media, Collaboration Fueled Reports on Australia’s Refugees
from MediaShift
An innovative Australian public journalism project has partnered student reporters and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation with a refugee support agency and a social media startup.
Facebook Subscribe for Journalists: What Works and What Doesn?t
from Mashable! by Lauren Indvik
The newsonomics of global media imperative
from Nieman Journalism Lab by Ken Doctor
