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Friday, January 27, 2012
Twitter to restrict user content in some countries
Twitter announced Thursday that it would begin restricting Tweets in
certain countries, marking a policy shift for the social media platform
that helped propel the popular uprisings recently sweeping across the
Middle East. "As we continue to grow internationally, we will enter countries that
have different ideas about the contours of freedom of expression,"
Twitter wrote in a blog post published Thursday.
It said even with the possibility of such restrictions, Twitter would
not be able to coexist with some countries. "Some differ so much from
our ideas that we will not be able to exist there," it said.
Twitter gave as examples of restrictions it might cooperate with
"certain types of content, such as France or Germany, which ban pro-Nazi
content." Twitter's decision to begin censoring content represents a significant
departure from its policy just one year ago, when anti-government
protesters in Tunisia, Egypt and other Arab countries coordinated mass
demonstrations through on the social network and, in the process, thrust
Twitter's disruptive potential into the global spotlight. In the interest of transparency, Twitter said Thursday, it has built a
mechanism to inform users in the event that a Tweet is being blocked.
(Reuters)
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Data Journalism Awards (DJA)
The Global Editors Network (GEN) is proud to announce the launch of the first annual Data Journalism Awards (DJA), the international competition recognising outstanding work in the growing field of data journalism. The GEN initiative is supported by Google and is organised in collaboration with the European Journalism Centre.
A total of EUR 45,000 will be awarded to the six winning projects.
Posted on January 19, 2012 by EJC
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EJC launches Press Freedom 2.0 Bolivia
The European Journalism Centre on December 2, 2011, officially launched a five-year Dutch Foreign Ministry funded programme to support press freedom initiatives and improve training for journalists and journalism students in Bolivia.
Bolivia is EJC’s second largest target country within the Press Freedom 2.0 portfolio. The programme will focus on the protection of journalists’ rights, media ethics, balanced and unbiased reporting, investigative and business news stories produced to the highest levels of journalistic standards in order to inspire both journalists, university faculty, media owners - and the public - to raise the bar on what constitutes professional reporting.
Posted on December 12, 2011 by EJC
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Financial news service in Zimbabwe
The European Journalism Centre and the Thomson Reuters Foundation on 26 September officially launched a five-year Dutch Foreign Ministry funded programme to establish a financial news service in Zimbabwe. “The Source”, registered temporarily as a trust on its way to local incorporation, will be the first financial news service of its kind in the country. “Our ambition is to help create an independent, accurate and timely economic news service for Zimbabwe with integrity as its watchword,” said Nick Kotch of the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
Posted on October 17, 2011 by EJC
Filed under announcements.
The MAITRE website launches
On Wednesday the 20th of July, MAITRE´s official website went live. MAITRE - Media Actions for International Training of Researchers – is a project funded by the European Commission’s FP7 KBBE Programme, which aims to enhance the knowledge about food research by improving the media skills of food scientists.
Posted on July 27, 2011 by EJC
Filed under projects, website.
EJC launches five-year NL Foreign Ministry funded programme in Georgia
On 18 June 2011 the EJC officially launched its five-year Netherlands Foreign Ministry funded programme in Georgia, in partnership with Georgian Institute of Public Affairs (GIPA). The “Finances and Transparency-New Approaches for Georgian Journalism” project targets a specific niche issue in Georgia’s media landscape, namely: the lack of in-depth, well-researched economic corruption investigative journalism stories.
Posted on June 23, 2011 by EJC
Filed under announcements, projects.
EJC awarded four-year EU contract “Information Events for Journalists”
The European Journalism Centre (EJC) has signed a four-year contract with the European Commission to implement information events for journalists related to EU affairs. While the EJC provided similar services to the Commission before, this framework contract is for the first time “inter-institutional”, encompassing a whole range of EU bodies. In addition to the European Commission, now the European Parliament, the Committee of the Regions, the European Economic and Social Committee, and the European Court of Auditors will participate as well. Moreover, the contract is “international” in scope, allowing EJC to invite journalists from all over the world.
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What is the role of video in the Occupy movement? Is it to bear witness? Is it to spread a political message? Is it to put events into a historical context? Is it an enticement to become part of something bigger than yourself that has helped the Occupy Wall Street movement grow into a global occupation? It is all these things. The role video is playing in the Occupy movement should be closely watched because it may just challenge the role mainstream media plays in today’s digital, 24/7, tuned-in world.
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