The European Parliament Prize for Journalism 2011: A #fail in the internet category [updated] from Ideas on Europe by Ronny Patz The winners of this year?s European Parliament Prize for Journalism have been announced today, and the jury?s choice for the winning text in the category ?Internet? is what one might call a #fail on … Read more
Geçen hafta sorularına verdiğim cevapları yayınlamayan UHIM’den bahsetmiştim. “islamcılar”dan sonra “liberaller”den de bir “sansür” yedim. Sevgili Ecem’in haberinde sanırım editörlerin kırpışına kurban gitti söylediklerim. Haber burada: Medyada ‘Rambo Gazeteciliği‘ Çoğu zaten arkadaşım olan hocalarımın söylediklerine bir sözüm yok. Söylediklerinin altına imzamı atarım. Ben yalnızca farklı ve biraz riskli bir yerden bakmak istedim: Sokaktaki insanda son … Read more
The newsonomics of U.S. media concentration from Nieman Journalism Lab by Ken Doctor The rise and potential fall of Rupert Murdoch is a hell of a story. It is, though, closer to the Guardian?s Simon Jenkins? description Tuesday, ?not a Berlin Wall moment, just daft hysteria.? Facing only the meager competition of the slow-as-molasses debt-ceiling … Read more
News of the World Whistleblower Found Dead from Mashable! by Todd Wasserman A former News of the World reporter who connected former NOTW editor Andy Coulson to phone hacking by his staff has been found dead. How Journalists Are Using Facebook to Share the News from Mashable! by Lauren Drell Shirky: Cheap, free, chaotic … Read more
Advertisers Announce Boycott of UK Tabloid on Twitter by Todd Wasserman MAIN FOCUS: Hacking scandal compromises Murdoch | 08/07/2011 from euro|topics Rupert Murdoch’s US-based concern News Corp on Thursday announced the closure of the British tabloid News of the World. Journalists on the newspaper have been accused among other things of hacking into the telephones … Read more
Twitter for Newsrooms as a relationship-building guide from Nieman Journalism Lab by Justin Ellis One of the most novel things about Twitter is that, from the beginning, they let the audience discover the best ways to use it. From hashtags to retweets, many of Twitter?s best features bubbled up from users, and journalists have developed, … Read more
BBC Social Media Summit: Crowdsourcing a Research Agenda from MediaShift The BBC College of Journalism is staging a Social Media Summit (hashtag #BBCSMS) in London this week, which will bring together industry leaders, practitioners and academics from around the world, with a view to collaboratively mapping the future of social journalism. AP Stylebook Adds … Read more
How Social Media Helps Journalists Break News from Social Media Examiner by Rich Brooks Civic Disobedience and the Arab Spring from …My heart’s in Accra by Ethan I spent the past two days in Cambridge, primarily around MIT, and almost exclusively talking about the ?Arab Spring? and what we?ve learned about social media and protest … Read more
One of the viral memes in the social web…. Name Fail: The Media?s Most Embarrassing Obama/Osama Gaffes by Sarah Kessler Tweeting Bin Laden: Have US Journalists Become Citizen Reporters? by Asteris Masouras When news of Osama bin Laden’s death broke on May 2, 2011 journalists in the United States were tweeting and using social media … Read more
It looks like Türkiye daily maybe the only paper whose owner, Enver Ören, did not change for 41 years. It now celebrates its 41th birthday.News in Turkish here. This paper belongs to a smaller Islamic community. In the mean time, a major and older daily Milliyet and Vatan were sold to Karacan Family. Karacans were … Read more
Google News uses social media in new algorithm from Editors Weblog – all postings by Meghan Hartsell Google is constantly changing its algorithms to try to provide users with the stories they want to read. It recently added a +1 button to connect users to stories their friends have enjoyed, but now it’s broadening … Read more
Legendary pro-Kurdish daily is back. It has recently been launched. In fact, the paper is always on the stacks but with different names. now it has its own name back. official site here. I am proud to state that I have worked in that daily for 6 months once in my life… Ozgur Gundem Re-launched … Read more
Not finding a new business model and falling back to paywall system… No, I am not going to use it. the New York Times definitely serves some quality journalism, but since September 11, I don’t need to get perspectives or news from NYT. There are so many other sources. Good luck NYT with your paywall:) … Read more
Are blogs changing journalism? A response from Felix Salmon of Reuters. from Editors Weblog – all postings by Ashley Stepanek It’s a fascinating question with the anticipated answer of “yes, of course blogs are changing journalism”–a kind of knee-jerk response that celebrates social media and the way in which the modern newscape has become … Read more
Taraf daily announced today that they began to cooperate with Wikileaks and Turkey related Cablegate material will be published soon. Today’s issue also has an exclusive interview with Julian Assange. Taraf is definitely the best paper in Turkey to cooperate with. Very good decision for Wikileaks… http://twitter.com/tanselparlak/status/47903928171511808 Yeni Star'ı çok beğendim. Bu sabah Star ve … Read more