Results matching “challenge deadline oct 15”
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Associated Press finds freedom of information laws lacking
Posted by Emma Heald on November 17, 2011 at 11:56 AM
Editors, take heed: Tech developers can contribute
Posted by Florence Pichon on June 7, 2011 at 12:36 PM
World Young Reader Prize June 15 deadline quickly approaching
Posted by John Burke on June 3, 2009 at 2:40 PM
US: Knight News Challenge deadline November 1
Posted by Lauren Drablier on October 13, 2008 at 1:24 PM
US: Knight Foundation launches online mentoring site for News Challenge
Posted by Alisa Zykova on September 3, 2008 at 9:03 AM
Global Voices Online hopes to stimulate new citizen media projects with Rising Voices
Posted by Mica Swyers on June 12, 2007 at 2:21 PM
Cape Town Conference: A new newspaper for a new public
Posted by Bate Felix on June 4, 2007 at 5:51 PM
US: Knight Foundation to invest in online community news projects
Posted by Rory Satran on September 20, 2006 at 11:56 AM
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![Digg](http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&&url=http://www.editorsweblog.org/analysis/2011/11/associated_press_finds_freedom_of_inform.php&bodytext=<form mt:asset-id="10964" class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;" contenteditable="false"><a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/logos/aplogo.gif"><img alt="aplogo.gif" src="http://www.editorsweblog.org/assets_c/2011/11/aplogo-thumb-200x49-10964.gif" class="mt-image-left" style="float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;" height="49" width="200" /></a></form>More than half the countries with freedom of information laws in place do not follow them, the <a href="http://www.ap.org/"><b>Associated Press</b></a> has found in an <a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/ACCESS_DENIED?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">11-month investigation </a>into citizens' rights to know what their governments are doing. <br /><br />Having <a href="http://www.ap.org/foi/">effectively used FOI requests</a> in investigative stories in the US, especially at the state and local government level, the AP decided that such requests were a tool which could be better taken advantage of at an international level, said <b>John Daniszewski</b>, vice president and senior managing editor for international news. <br /><br />In part as an attempt to react to the 10th anniversary of the 2001 terrorist attacks in a constructive manner, the AP set about asking the European Union and 105 different governments around the world <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/266891-the-questions.html">questions</a> about how many arrests and convictions for terrorism there have been in the ten years since 9/11. &title=<b>Associated Press</b> finds freedom of information laws lacking){kind=link}
![Digg](http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&&url=http://www.editorsweblog.org/newspaper/2011/06/editors_take_heed_tech_developers_can_co.php&bodytext=<form mt:asset-id="10292" class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;" contenteditable="false"><a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/internet%20technologies2.png"><img alt="internet technologies2.png" src="http://www.editorsweblog.org/assets_c/2011/06/internet%20technologies2-thumb-125x92-10292.png" class="mt-image-left" style="margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt; float: left;" height="92" width="125" /></a></form><div><i>The Onion</i>, an American satirical paper, has offered advice to editors: tech developers have a valuable input. </div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.adweek.com/internet-week-blog/advice-onions-tech-team-132243">In an interview with </a><i><a href="http://www.adweek.com/internet-week-blog/advice-onions-tech-team-132243">Adweek</a></i>, the Onion's lead developer <b>Jeff Weston</b> likens the traditional relationship between editors and tech developers as that between Willy Wonka and his Oompa-Loompas. Weston told Adweek that tech developers at newspapers are a "huge team of laborers behind the scenes" that "have a constructive input, but they are not being asked." They work as technical laborers hired to carry out someone else's ideas. </div><div><br /></div><div>Weston cites lack of faith as the reason they are not asked to collaborate with editors for important decisions. Editors end up dictating what content management system works best and how to develop apps. </div><div><br /></div> &title=Editors, take heed: Tech developers can contribute){kind=link}
![Digg](http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&&url=http://www.editorsweblog.org/world_newspaper_congress/2009/06/world_young_reader_prize_june_15_deadlin.php&bodytext=The deadline for the 2009 World Young Reader Prize,
this year with two new categories on offer, is 15 June. It is also the last date to get a
discounted registration for the <a href="http://www.wan-press.org/nie/articles.php?id=1965">World Young Reader Conference</a> being held in Prague, Czech Republic 27-30 September.<br />
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<form mt:asset-id="3090" class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;" contenteditable="false"><a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/assets_c/2009/06/Young-reader-image-3090.html" onclick="window.open('http://www.editorsweblog.org/assets_c/2009/06/Young-reader-image-3090.html','popup','width=284,height=142,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false"><img src="http://www.editorsweblog.org/assets_c/2009/06/Young-reader-image-thumb-200x100-3090.jpg" alt="Young-reader-image.jpg" class="mt-image-right" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 20px 20px; float: right;" height="100" width="200" /></a></form>This annual award from the <a href="http://www.wan-press.org/">World Association of Newspapers</a> (WAN)
recognizes newspapers that do the most to develop young readership. WAN
has added a special press freedom category for 2009 to honour
newspapers that teach effectively about the fragility and importance of
press freedom in a democratic society. <div><br /></div>&title=World Young Reader Prize June 15 deadline quickly approaching){kind=link}