Is Al Jazeera America Simply CNN, Minus Wolf Blitzer? It’s been just under a month since Al Jazeera America first hit the airwaves, and what a month it’s been — with the Syria story lurching from seemingly imminent U.S. strikes to a looming congressional vote to this weekend’s chemical weapons deal. The fast-churning news cycle … Read more
The Swarm Economy Is Not Silicon Valley?s ?Sharing Economy? Swarm Economy ? Zacqary Adam Green:?When we talk about the end of workplaces and lifetime employment, please don?t get the wrong idea. This has nothing to do with what Silicon Valley and venture capitalists are now calling the ?sharing economy.? It was once the darling of … Read more
Jeff Bezos says The Washington Post can be successful if it adopts Amazon?s business philosophies Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos has given his first interview since acquiring The Washington Post for $250 million. Speaking with (not surprisingly) a reporter from The Washington Post, Bezos said he would run the newspaper with the same strategy … Read more
Snowden reveals US intelligence?s black budget Former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden leaked the government?s ?black budget? for fiscal year 2013 to The Washington Post How to Use the New Facebook Insights Do you rely on Facebook Insights to track the performance of your Facebook page? Are you wondering how the new Insights … Read more
Partner of NSA leaks journalist held for 9 hours The partner of the Guardian journalist who worked with Edward Snowden to expose US surveillance tactics was detained for almost nine hours August 6, 2013 filed handout picture released by the Brazilian Senate showing Brazil-based Guardian reporter Glenn Greenwald, who was among the first to release … Read more
The Post?s sale is a family matter When The Washington Post Writers Group came courting several years ago, inviting me to join the company?s syndicate, I remember well the pitch: We?re a family. The Maven of Long-Term Planning As speculations surface for what we should be seeing out of The Washington Post under … Read more
The Newsonomics of Jeff Bezos Buying the Washington PostIt is a thunderbolt. If not tossed down from Mt. Olympus, it is thrown from Mt. Amazon, not far from Washington?s beatific Olympic Mountains. Amazon chief Jeff Bezos buys Washington Post for $250m Paul Farhi, at the Washington Post: The Washington Post Co. has agreed … Read more
Arguing for a new genre: ?JavaScript journalism? Ray Daly of The Washington Post has been writing JavaScript since the 1990s. In May, hespoke at JSConf about ?JavaScript journalism? ? the idea that just as it took some time for photojournalism to be respected as a distinct field, it?s now proper to define JavaScript journalism as its own thing, a … Read more
New York Times launches new interactive ads for mobile The New York Times is out with some interesting new ad formats specifically tailored for their iPad app. Developed by the Times? Idea Lab, the new formats emphasize interactivity and a push to connect the app to other features on the iPad, including: Acts of Journalism … Read more
US Senate passes comprehensive immigration reform In a vote hailed by US President Barack Obama, the Senate on Thursday passed comprehensive immigration reform.. US Army reviews rules of engagement over cyber threat The U.S. military is reviewing its rules of engagement to deal with the growing threat of cyber crime, military chief Martin Dempsey says … Read more
However, AKP is organizing two major rallies in Ankara and İstanbul this weekend. In this evening’s Ankara rally, PM Erdoğan repeated the same lies about the Occupiers,already debunked accusations and relied heavily to play with AKP voters’ religious sensitivities. I do not exaggarate, in my life, I have never seen such crude and intense exploitation … Read more
86 Civil Liberties Groups and Internet Companies Demand an End to NSA Spying Today, a bipartisan coalition of 86 civil liberties organizations and Internet companies ? including the Electronic Frontier Foundation, reddit, Mozilla, FreedomWorks, and the American Civil Liberties Union ? are demanding swift action from Congress in light of the recent revelations about unchecked … Read more
MAIN FOCUS: US government’s spy programme uncovered | 10/06/2013 After the revelations about the surveillance programme Prism, an employee of the US National Security Agency on Sunday revealed that he was the one who leaked details to the press. The newspapers The Washington Post and The Guardian reported on Friday that in addition to recording … Read more
A very good comparative post: Freedom of speech in Turkey, 1994-2010 by istanbulnotes Last week?s release of the 2010 edition of the annual Reporters Without Borders World Press Freedom Index made for more uncomfortable Turkish reading. Turkey was placed in 138th position in a list of 175 countries, down from 99th position in 2002 when … Read more