Busy Thursday: Turkey helps free the Guardian journalist in Libya, diplomatically steps in Bahrain…

  Turkey steps in to calm Bahrain spat from Hurriyet Dailynews Turkey has submitted a set of proposals in an effort to soothe tensions in crisis-hit Bahrain.   Turkey helps free Guardian journalist in Libya from World news: Turkey | guardian.co.uk Ghaith Abdul-Ahad released from Libyan prison after Turkish government and foreign ministry joined negotiations … Read more

a Journalism roundup: The wave of non-profit locally-focused news organizations and more…

  Diaspora and future social networks: decentralized, open-sourced? from Editors Weblog – all postings by Jean Yves Chainon It has been about a year now since Diaspora and its four founders made ripples through the blogosphere and mainstream media, including in this New York Times article, following the $200,000 plus donations that the budding alternative … Read more

Google to help digital journalism…

$5 million to encourage innovation in digital journalism from The Official Google Blog by A Googler Journalism is fundamental to a functioning democracy. So as media organizations globally continue to broaden their presence online, we?re eager to play our part on the technology side?experimenting with new ways of presenting news online; providing tools like Google … Read more