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Belarussian journalists and bloggers issued an online protest last Wednesday by not posting anything for an hour or using a black banner, lashing out against the "On Mass Media" law that the government adopted "without public hearings and international expert examinations", Belarussian Association of Journalists (BAJ) reported.

As the last few years have shown, independent Belarussian newspapers have the tendency of being shut down by the state. Instead, many media outlets have found solace in cyberspace, according to the Boston Globe.

However, last Tuesday the House of Representatives of the Belarus National Assembly approved the law after its second reading, Jurist reported. The BAJ said that the law violates the freedoms outlined in articles 33 and 34 of the constitution.  
 
Belarus media outlets are now banned from getting foreign financial backing and are required to register with the government. Reporters Without Borders termed the law as "repressive" and predict that censorship will increase, the Globe reported.

The government is trying to save Belarussians "from foreign propaganda" by attempting to control the cyberspace, according to the Globe.
 
Earlier this year, Belarussian journalists were imprisoned or beaten up during a protest against Alexander Lukashenko, the current president. A week later, a number of journalists' home were raided as the Belarussian KGB tried to look for libel documents regarding Lukashenko, Jurist reported.

Source: Boston Globe through World News Network, Jurist, Belarussian Association of Journalists

See also:
Belarus: 3 year sentence for Muhammad cartoon-officially
Belarus: Press freedom squeezed
"Think yourself lucky if your big worry is the future of journalism"
Belarus: Two opposition newspapers shut down
Seventh independent newspaper shut down by Belarus state








 

For the French weekly Le Nouvel Observateur, it’s been a year since they have walked the walk by building an in-house studio. Video has simply become essential. “We can’t do without it anymore,” said Malika Elkord, deputy editor of the Nouvel Observateur. Will video ever be dominant in the publication though? Not to be considered yet. “Video is only a plus, but it is still essential,” she said.

Newspaper political blogs are becoming more and more popular these days, causing bloggers to have to answer to critics and allegations of bias on a daily basis.

Web-first policies have come under scrutiny for the balance between getting a story published quickly and getting the right, fact-checked, edited story published. Newspapers often struggle through this delicate balance when deciding what goes on-line when. That’s to say nothing of the sometimes not so invisible division between print and on-line departments. Neil Chase, Continuous News Editor at the New York Times, talks to the Editors Weblog about their continuous news-desk and why it’s a model that works not just for the on-line product but benefits the print product and journalists too.

On 19 October 2006, French broadcaster France 2 won a libel case over accusations it faked a report into the killing of Mohammed Al-Dura, a Palestinian boy whose death in 2000 became a symbol of the uprising known as the second intifada. The Court of First Instance in Paris ordered Philippe Karsenty, director of Media Ratings, a website that comments on the media, to pay France 2 and its Israel correspondent Charles Enderlin symbolic damages of one euro each. Immediately, Media Ratings made an appeal and there will be a new lawsuit.

French media - especially newspapers - supported a lot France Televisions (see former posting) and its journalist during the last six years. The Editors Weblog prefers to ask the other part about the consequences of this - first - judgment and what it reveals about fairness in French media.

Just this month, I stumbled upon the beginnings of a truly global web community all about infographics.  Blogs, forums, tips, critiques.  And suddenly, I don’t know where to start with the one thing I’ve been craving for the past 10 years.

Just to let our readers know, the frequency of postings may dwindle a bit over the next 2 weeks as the World Editors Forum and the World Association of Newspapers prepare for the 13th World Editors Forum and 59th World Newspaper Congress. During the conference however, postings will be plentiful including podcasting and vlogging so don't go too far. Thanks for understanding!

Last week, Assistant Managing Editor for Continuous News at the Washington Post, Rajiv Chandrasekaran, spoke with readers about the concept of the Continuous News desk in as online chat. Below are some highlights and commentary:

 The Editors' Weblog has compiled a provisional list of the newspapers that have printed some or all of the cartoons since 30 September 2005, date of publication of 12 cartoons of the prophet Mohammed in Danish newspaper Jyllands Posten. Even provisional, this list is the most exhaustive on the internet, thanks to members of the World Editors Forum and to bloggers close to the EW.

The main conclusions are:

- to our knowledge, more than 130 national or local newspapers (excluding the student newspapers and online publications) published some or all of the 12 cartoons (sometimes just a pohtography) in approximately 50 countries . It also means that around 1,7% of the dailies around the world - 8,300 paid-for dailies according to World Press Trends 2005 - made the difficult decision to publish the cartoons.

- Europe was the continent where the most newspapers published the cartoons: at least 70 papers. It is not surprising that the Netherlands was the country most involved in the controversy (after Denmark)... a few months after the assassination of the film maker Theo Van Gogh by an Islamist activist. Same thing in France after the veil debate and the November 2005 riots.

- Within Europe, the first publications to reprint the cartoons in January-February 2006 were in general right-wing publications, for example ABC in Spain, Die Welt in Germany and Corriere della Sera in Italy. Then more leftist publications followed suit, for example Libération and Le Monde in France.

- Surprisingly, Arab and Muslim newspapers were also involved in the controversy from the very beginning, with the first reprint on 17 October 2005 (see below)! More than 12 Arab and/or Muslim newspapers published the cartoons. The decision to publish provoked terrible consequences for the editors-in-chief of these publications. Same consequences for some directors of television in Sudan and Algeria. 

- How to define the position adopted by American, British, Canadian and Australian newspapers? Media responsability, political correctness or self-censorship? The most surprising is not the position defined in many editorials (from The New York Times to The Guardian), but this strange impression of unanimity and consensus: only three regional newspapers on more than 1,400 newspapers in the States and zero newspaper, but a student daily in the UK for taking the risk...

- And what in the rest of the world? Nothing. Almost the desert for the publication of the cartoons in the Americas (apart Brazil), Africa (apart South Africa) and above all Asia (apart New Zealand). As if this controversy was only between Europe and the Arab world and if blasphemy was still relevant in regions as Asia and the Americas: not only about Mohammed, but about all religious issues.

My conclusion: the geography of the publication of the Danish cartoons tells us a lot about our democracies: what is allowed, what is forbidden... and what is taboo. In fact, it's more geopolitics than geography!

The German media regulator KEK (Commission on Media Concentration) announced yesterday that it has rejected publisher Axel Springer's takeover of ProSiebenSat1, the biggest German commercial broadcaster. The media watchdog stated that the deal would have given Springer "dominant power over public opinion."

Staff at Liberation, one of France's leading newspapers, voted Friday to end a four-day strike which has kept the publication off newsstands for most of this week and revealed the deepest internal crisis the daily has faced in its 32-year history.

The decision was adopted by 218 employees with just five votes against. They also agreed to insert a four-page supplement in Saturday's edition of the paper to explain to readers the cause and consequences of their strike, which started Monday.

Statistics released yesterday by the Audit Bureau of Circulation (ABC) for American newspapers show a 2.6 per cent decrease in average weekday circulation and a 3.1 per cent decrease in Sunday circulation year on year as of September. This percentage is worse than ABC's May announcement of a 1.9% year on year loss which, until now, was the steepest drop since 1996. (see pevious posting)

Combining these two statistics means that weekday circulation of American newspapers has decreased by an average of over 2 per cent during the past year. 

The New York Times' decision to merge its print and online newsrooms will be looked back on as the tipping point for the future of newsrooms everywhere. It will be considered the moment in history when newspaper organizations realized and began to capitalize on the true potential of the internet. The engines have been purring at the starting line for some time as several smaller papers have already adopted similar strategies, but the Times just waved the green flag and sent them roaring down the track. Powered by the rapid spread of broadband, newspapers the world over will all be racing for the golden cup of multimedia convergence.

One of the reasons that newspapers and TV broadcasters are losing their audience is because there are too many other forms of media attracting their attention. By combining these media, news organizations will retain and attract more customers. A sole piece may just scratch the surface of a story, but packaged with multimedia compliments, the audience will dive deeper, consuming a thorough and educational news experience. Senior VP of digital media at NYT Martin Nisenholtz sees the eventual inclusion of 30 to 40 daily multimedia reports on his paper's website: "(NYT multimedia is) still baby steps, but it's a hell of a lot more robust than even two years ago. Our multimedia now is embedded into the rhythm of the way we produce the Web site, and all of that is done in collaboration with the newsroom."

For the moment, the Grey Lady has said that it will not oblige its staff to adapt to the net, that it expects some resistance. But the fact is, the multimedia race has begun and you'll be disqualified pretty quickly if you don't step on the gas. Ultimately, multimedia internet capabilities will change everything for everybody in the news cycle...

The New York Times' decision to merge its print and online newsrooms will be looked back on as the tipping point for the future of newsrooms everywhere. It will be considered the moment in history when newspaper organizations realized and began to capitalize on the true potential of the internet. The engines have been purring at the starting line for some time as several smaller papers have already adopted similar strategies, but the Times just waved the green flag and sent them roaring down the track. Powered by the rapid spread of broadband, newspapers the world over will all be racing for the golden cup of multimedia convergence.

One of the reasons that newspapers and TV broadcasters are losing their audience is because there are too many other forms of media attracting their attention. By combining these media, news organizations will retain and attract more customers. A sole piece may just scratch the surface of a story, but packaged with multimedia compliments, the audience will dive deeper, consuming a thorough and educational news experience. Senior VP of digital media at NYT Martin Nisenholtz sees the eventual inclusion of 30 to 40 daily multimedia reports on his paper's website: "(NYT multimedia is) still baby steps, but it's a hell of a lot more robust than even two years ago. Our multimedia now is embedded into the rhythm of the way we produce the Web site, and all of that is done in collaboration with the newsroom."

For the moment, the Grey Lady has said that it will not oblige its staff to adapt to the net, that it expects some resistance. But the fact is, the multimedia race has begun and you'll be disqualified pretty quickly if you don't step on the gas. Ultimately, multimedia internet capabilities will change everything for everybody in the news cycle...

The New York Times' decision to merge its print and online newsrooms will be looked back on as the tipping point for the future of newsrooms everywhere. It will be considered the moment in history when newspaper organizations realized and began to capitalize on the true potential of the internet. The engines have been purring at the starting line for some time as several smaller papers have already adopted similar strategies, but the Times just waved the green flag and sent them roaring down the track. Powered by the rapid spread of broadband, newspapers the world over will all be racing for the golden cup of multimedia convergence.

One of the reasons that newspapers and TV broadcasters are losing their audience is because there are too many other forms of media attracting their attention. By combining these media, news organizations will retain and attract more customers. A sole piece may just scratch the surface of a story, but packaged with multimedia compliments, the audience will dive deeper, consuming a thorough and educational news experience. Senior VP of digital media at NYT Martin Nisenholtz sees the eventual inclusion of 30 to 40 daily multimedia reports on his paper's website: "(NYT multimedia is) still baby steps, but it's a hell of a lot more robust than even two years ago. Our multimedia now is embedded into the rhythm of the way we produce the Web site, and all of that is done in collaboration with the newsroom."

For the moment, the Grey Lady has said that it will not oblige its staff to adapt to the net, that it expects some resistance. But the fact is, the multimedia race has begun and you'll be disqualified pretty quickly if you don't step on the gas. Ultimately, multimedia internet capabilities will change everything for everybody in the news cycle...

Thanks, Editors Weblog's readers, to be patient. More than 350 working editors-in-chief will join the 12th World Editors Forum and we will begin the Editors BlogConf tomorrow with the first interviews of speakers and, obviously, your first comments and questions.

Source: the Editors BlogConf