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Facebook IPO – what it means for Zuckerberg and you
Most of Facebook’s revenue comes from advertising. It has become the largest platform for display advertising in the United States. The announcement of the impending IPO leads to the question: Where is Facebook heading and how does it affect its users?
Media and developers team up for Somalia Speaks SMS project
Somalia Speaks, a collaboration between Souktel, Ushahidi, Al Jazeera, Crowdflower and the African Diaspora Institute, provides a platform for Somali citizens to have their say via SMS text messaging.
New tax on subscriptions hits Finnish printed press sector
Over a hundred media employees have lost their jobs as a result of the new tax on newspaper and magazine subscriptions implemented by the Finnish government. Layoff negotiations are currently under way for another 200 professionals. What will this mean for Finnish journalism?
The revolution will be televised, streamed and uploaded
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.
Lithuania seeks to curb its banks’ appetite for media ownership
Warning of pernicious ties between the financial sector and the media, Lithuanian authorities are set to pass law amendments prohibiting financial establishments from acquiring media outlets.
Fortune-tellers and psychics pervade Italian media
Anyone sitting in front of the television in Italy would soon start believing that we are all in dire need of a clairvoyant. Astrologers, fortune-tellers, and all sorts of psychics claiming to be blessed with supernatural powers are thriving on a variety of small and private television channels.
Condition ONE: is immersive storytelling the next big step in conflict reporting?
Condition ONE is a new tablet app allowing photographers to shoot 180 degrees frameless stories straight from the line of action. “Condition ONE will let people witness a story first-hand like never before,” promises its creator, American photojournalist and filmmaker Danfung Dennis.
Public funds for Italian media to be axed by 2013
As Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti’s Cabinet is making cuts in virtually in every domain of the Italian public sector, party-owned media organisations are expected to suffer from a much feared slash of public funds. What consequences will the ending of state subsidies have for the Italian press?
How free is the media in Romania?
What are the current challenges facing the media in Romania and what are its most promising options for the future?
12 tips for international media trainers
Those invited to help the media overseas need to ensure that the training they offer is continually refreshed. It takes more time and costs more to produce, but media training must be continually reworked so that it is sensitive to local issues and better addresses local needs. And those delivering international training need to realise that we probably have more to learn than we have to give.
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- Facebook IPO – what it means for Zuckerberg and you
- Media and developers team up for Somalia Speaks SMS project
- New tax on subscriptions hits Finnish printed press sector
- The revolution will be televised, streamed and uploaded
- Lithuania seeks to curb its banks’ appetite for media ownership
- Fortune-tellers and psychics pervade Italian media
- Condition ONE: is immersive storytelling the next big step in conflict reporting?
- Public funds for Italian media to be axed by 2013
- How free is the media in Romania?
- 12 tips for international media trainers
- Ten things every journalist should know in 2012
- Current trends in US documentary filmmaking
- Unhappy about biography, Lithuanian basketball stars shake off public figure status
- Recommended media reading list
- Tips for writing radio news scripts
- The future of news: crowdsourced and connected
- Iraqi bloggers and social media activists speak up for their country
- Media freedom in Israel eroding fast
- Minority voices on social media networks
- Press freedom award honours courageous Bahraini journalist
- A critical mass for Public Service Media freedom in South East Europe
- Latvia to host Baltic Investigative Reporting Center
- Italian freelance journalists protest against precarious working conditions
- Can Lithuania get past its provincialism?
- Broadcasting 2.0: Creating an orchestra out of a cacophony
- Belgian television investigative programme exposes social injustice with humour
- Dying for the truth: Drug cartels target journalists in Mexico
- Summer Reporter 2011: Underground professional journalism (Part III)
- Summer Reporter 2011: Discovering new niches in the news market (Part II)
- The EU, its neighbours, and journalism revolution
- Summer reporter 2011: Introduction (Part I)
- Springing into action: have social media and the Arab Spring reshaped world politics?
- Covering the EU – what’s in it for Romanians?
- In the aftermath of the Arab Spring revolutions, journalists ask: “Who is a journalist?”
- ENJN closing conference: main takeaways - Day 2
- ENJN closing conference: main takeaways - Day 1
- SOS - Save our serendipity
- Marketing a revolution: The Arab Spring for sale
- Social media or digital narcissism
- The Order of Journalists in Italy: an outdated institution?
- MADA campaigns amidst precarious media freedom in Palestine
- From watchdogs to witch-hunters: Italian mainstream media in a moral vacuum
- Do school newspapers hold the future of print media?
- Weibo: the Chinese Twitter
- Can one make a living as a freelance journalist in Lithuania?
- Alex Crawford: making history in Libya
- The color of terrorism
- The Imperfectionists: A failing newsroom - described with a novelist’s touch
- Twitter interview requests: #innovative or #epicfail?
- How to correct social media errors
- Free laptops and internet connection for children in Uruguay
- Wikileaks report reveals corruption in Lithuanian newspapers
- For Belarusian journalists, a time for solidarity
- Photo-essay: Mourning and reburials mark Srebrenica massacre anniversary
- Who wants to befriend their teachers on Facebook?!?
- E-government in Italy: a race against time
- The Greek media “bailout”: Debtocracy shows the way
- Pakistani comedians make their way into mainstream media
- Lithuanian media heedful of economic ties with Belarus, lackadaisical on Lukashenko’s politics
- Journalist gaoled, beaten by Syrian authorities offers advice to others
- Ongoing protests for democracy and free media in Macedonia
- In search for a journalism model: Going hyperlocal and pushing the envelope
- Earthquake in Japan, protests in Egypt, war in Libya? Too far away from me…
- Russian broadcasters to benefit from Lithuanian round-the-clock ban on alcohol advertising
- Japan’s muzzled media and the nuclear crisis
- Is Italy’s mainstream media doing its part in covering the upcoming referendum?
- The effects of terrorism on Pakistan’s media
- European Commission 2.0 - Towards an open debate?
- Defending the rights of young journalists in Pakistan
- Investigative journalism according to Gustavo Gorriti: “Never allow fear to become an editor”
- Journalistic speed dating
- Minor political parties take part in television debates during electoral campaign in Portugal
- Irish media start-ups venture online in wake of recession
- Why is hate speech flourishing on the Lithuanian Internet?
- Study says East European media lead the way in gender equality
- What data visualisation can learn from game design
- Learning lessons from social media’s new-found prominence
- Who likes your page? No, really - Navigating between likes and fakes in social media
- Hefty EU allocations to Lithuanian media bend journalism ethics and standards
- The European Council, addicted to Twitter? Well almost…
- Modern technological trends emerging in Pakistani media
- The uninteresting Baghdad secrets of WikiLeaks
- China’s media charm offensive
- For conflict-weary Liberians, Ivorian crisis is ‘front page news’
- News games
- Japan earthquake shakes Italian media
- The economic recession in Europe rampages the newsroom
- Tweeting the Budget: a BBC hashtag experiment
- The curse of yellow journalism in Pakistan
- Abandoning a broken model of journalism
- Facebooked journalism in Romania
- How social media, internet changed experience of Japan disaster
- Addressing gender issues in developing countries
- Will Righthaven copyright lawsuits change excerpting online?
- Social media: What’s the difference between curation and journalism?
- China is not ready for the Jasmine Revolution
- A miscarriage of information: the 2009 Swine flu distance diagnosis and misleading media in the UK
- Media companies must become trusted data hubs
- The Middle East riots as depicted by the Israeli media
- Attacks on journalists take on a nasty gendered twist
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