Criminalizing Journalism: Manning, Media and You Illustration: Reuters/William Hennessy Pierre Bourdieu?s charts and journalism Journalists should take nothing for granted but, instead, look at the silences in the world and ask: why? American model of media and journalism or why the “revolution” might not be televised Living in USA within the last month … Read more
Churnalism: discover when the “news” you’re reading is a press-release from Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow Syrian Electronic Army takes credit for hacking AP Twitter account from FP Passport After the Associated Press tweeted, “Breaking: Two Explosions in the White House and Barack Obama is injured,” it literally took only seconds for people to … Read more
Dan Gillmor says journalists are uninformed about who controls the platforms they publish on from Nieman Journalism Lab by Caroline O’Donovan Dan Gillmor is writing a book (maybe), and he has a lot of questions. The project, which will probably be self published, will probably be called Permission Taken. Gillmor already owns that domain, so … Read more
20% of Newspapers Now Have Online Paywalls from Mashable! by Lauren Indvik Online Security Tips for Journalists from Mashable! by International Journalists’ Network Could broadcast journalism see a revival in online media? from The Next Web by Joel Falconer The I Files: Investigative reporting comes to YouTube, launching with the BBC, NYT, Al Jazeera and … Read more
via @aslitunc The Guardian moves towards open journalism and digital engagement from Editors Weblog – all postings by Federica Cherubini News can reach you as an article, a picture, or a video, or it could be from a tweet or a Facebook update. Taking this into account is what inspired open journalism: the new editorial … Read more
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 … Read more
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
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
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