The technology behind Wikinews and Wikipedia known as wiki web pages is now open to anyone with internet access. Wikinews allows citizen journalists to report news independently and collaboratively and Wikipedia provides an online encyclopedia that anyone can edit. For those that collaborate electronically on professional or personal projects, CNN reports on a recent technology trend that allows anyone to publicly store information through the internet on web pages called Wikis. Rather than continuously working through correspondence by emails attached with differing versions of documents in progress, collaborators can now work on documents and save the changes through the web even without knowing html.
Serial entrepreneur Joe Kraus founded a new Palo Alto based company in California called JotSpot Inc that provides the service of wikis, giving anyone the power to edit a web page. Through a wiki users can find and share commonly worked on documents from any computer with internet access. No information is ever lost amongst users, as revisions are tracked and archived.
The technology behind Wikinews and Wikipedia known as wiki web pages is now open to anyone with internet access. Wikinews allows citizen journalists to report news independently and collaboratively and Wikipedia provides an online encyclopedia that anyone can edit. For those that collaborate electronically on professional or personal projects, CNN reports on a recent technology trend that allows anyone to publicly store information through the internet on web pages called Wikis. Rather than continuously working through correspondence by emails attached with differing versions of documents in progress, collaborators can now work on documents and save the changes through the web even without knowing html.
Serial entrepreneur Joe Kraus founded a new Palo Alto based company in California called JotSpot Inc that provides the service of wikis, giving anyone the power to edit a web page. Through a wiki users can find and share commonly worked on documents from any computer with internet access. No information is ever lost amongst users, as revisions are tracked and archived.
On Poynter: California's Ventura Country Star dives further into participatory journalism. The paper's managing editor for new media and technology, John Moore, has started a blog on which he posts the decision-making process that the Star's editors go through every day. Readers have the option of adding their own comments to the blog, virtually involving them in editorial meetings and giving them the possibility to influence the stories that they will be reading the following day. Moore to his readers: "Here's your chance to sit in on those discussions as we look at the stories that are being discussed to run in tomorrow's paper. So pull up a chair and let us know if you agree or disagree with our choices." Another new blog at the Star moves "letters to the editors" from the website to a letters blog after they are edited and approved, essentially allowing comments from readers about readers comments.
Source: Poynter
On Poynter: California's Ventura Country Star dives further into participatory journalism. The paper's managing editor for new media and technology, John Moore, has started a blog on which he posts the decision-making process that the Star's editors go through every day. Readers have the option of adding their own comments to the blog, virtually involving them in editorial meetings and giving them the possibility to influence the stories that they will be reading the following day. Moore to his readers: "Here's your chance to sit in on those discussions as we look at the stories that are being discussed to run in tomorrow's paper. So pull up a chair and let us know if you agree or disagree with our choices." Another new blog at the Star moves "letters to the editors" from the website to a letters blog after they are edited and approved, essentially allowing comments from readers about readers comments.
Source: Poynter
Metro International, the newspaper group that operates free daily papers in 17 countries, announced a net loss for 2004 of £6m (about $11.3m), according to Media Bulletin. Yet the publisher also reported an increase of £160.1m in net sales and an operating profit of £6.9m. During 2004 Metro invested heavily in new editions in cities including Rotterdam, cities in France and in New York. Recent research reports that Metro International editions now have a total daily readership of 15.2m people.
Source: Media Bulletin
Metro International, the newspaper group that operates free daily papers in 17 countries, announced a net loss for 2004 of £6m (about $11.3m), according to Media Bulletin. Yet the publisher also reported an increase of £160.1m in net sales and an operating profit of £6.9m. During 2004 Metro invested heavily in new editions in cities including Rotterdam, cities in France and in New York. Recent research reports that Metro International editions now have a total daily readership of 15.2m people.
Source: Media Bulletin
ABC reports that Chinese authorities have tightened media coverage of the recent mining disaster that killed at least 203 miners in a gas explosion at a colliery in the country's north-east. Local journalists in Liaoning province where the blast occurred say government officials, apparently from China's central propaganda department, have ordered a local news blackout. Local papers are to only use material supplied by the national State-controlled news agency.
Source: ABC News
ABC reports that Chinese authorities have tightened media coverage of the recent mining disaster that killed at least 203 miners in a gas explosion at a colliery in the country's north-east. Local journalists in Liaoning province where the blast occurred say government officials, apparently from China's central propaganda department, have ordered a local news blackout. Local papers are to only use material supplied by the national State-controlled news agency.
Source: ABC News
Here's an informative article from AMEInfo, a Middle East business resource site, summarizing what Bertrand and the delegates from WAN are doing in Dubai.
Source: AMEInfo
Here's an informative article from AMEInfo, a Middle East business resource site, summarizing what Bertrand and the delegates from WAN are doing in Dubai.
Source: AMEInfo
The OSCE presented a new publication by the the Representative on Freedom of the Media, Miklos Haraszti, which "voices concern over limitations of access to the Internet and offers "recipes" on how to preserve the freedom of the Net. [...] The Media Freedom Internet Cookbook, further attempts to help users and governments fight "bad content", for example hate speech, without jeopardising freedom. "Regulatory activism can lead to suppression of freedom regardless of whether [the] censorship was intended or came as a consequence of ignorance. I intend to warn about the dangers over the Internet just as I do in the case of 'classic' censorship in the print press or the broadcast media" Haraszti added.
Source: OSCE website through the EJC newsletter
The Guardian announced that The Financial Times will discontinue its weekly media section "Creative Business" in its current form. The Guardian illuminates, "[the] decision comes two months after the Telegraph closed its media section and in the same year the Times decided to downgrade its media coverage on Fridays. The FT, which has struggled to attract advertising to the supplement, is to turn its weekly Creative Business into a monthly section from next year as part of a major cost-cutting campaign." Certain coverage of the topics will be guaranteed on two pages inside the FT branded "Creative Business," and a similar supplement of the current media bulletin will appear monthly in form of a pullout supplement. A spokeswoman for the FT said no staff cuts would result from the move. "Creative Business had a small staff and everyone will be redeployed," she said, adding that the paper was in discussions with staff about who would stay to oversee the supplement.
Source: The Guardian
The Guardian announced that The Financial Times will discontinue its weekly media section "Creative Business" in its current form. The Guardian illuminates, "[the] decision comes two months after the Telegraph closed its media section and in the same year the Times decided to downgrade its media coverage on Fridays. The FT, which has struggled to attract advertising to the supplement, is to turn its weekly Creative Business into a monthly section from next year as part of a major cost-cutting campaign." Certain coverage of the topics will be guaranteed on two pages inside the FT branded "Creative Business," and a similar supplement of the current media bulletin will appear monthly in form of a pullout supplement. A spokeswoman for the FT said no staff cuts would result from the move. "Creative Business had a small staff and everyone will be redeployed," she said, adding that the paper was in discussions with staff about who would stay to oversee the supplement.
Source: The Guardian
"The International Women’s Media Foundation is seeking nominations for its 2005 Courage in Journalism Awards and Lifetime Achievement Award. The only awards program exclusively for international women journalists, the Courage in Journalism Awards honor women journalists who have demonstrated extraordinary strength of character in pursuing their profession under difficult or dangerous circumstances, such as government oppression, political pressure, physical danger or other intimidating obstacles.
"The International Women’s Media Foundation is seeking nominations for its 2005 Courage in Journalism Awards and Lifetime Achievement Award. The only awards program exclusively for international women journalists, the Courage in Journalism Awards honor women journalists who have demonstrated extraordinary strength of character in pursuing their profession under difficult or dangerous circumstances, such as government oppression, political pressure, physical danger or other intimidating obstacles.
