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China Bans Media from Quoting Foreign News

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Global Voices - By Abby - Apr. 18 (Opinion) - China's media authority announced new regulations banning news outlets and other organizations from reporting on foreign news coverage without permission less than a day after The New York Times won a Pulitzer Prize for its report on the hidden wealth of Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao's family.

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Reporter’s Notebook: Bogus Internet story just won’t go away

Tue, 19 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800

mtstandard.com - By John Grant Emeigh - Feb. 19 (Fact Check) - There’s a bogus story about Butte that’s been circulating on the Internet for the past five or six years which, like an annoying attack of the hiccups, just won’t seem to go away. It’s some crazy yarn — wrapped up to look like a newspaper article — about an 11-year-old girl who shoots two “illegal aliens” who broke into her Butte residence while she was home alone. Pretty gripping stuff. But it’s complete cow manure.

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Industry Outlook Panel Yields Words to Thrive By

Wed, 06 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800

siia.net - By Ronn Levine - Feb. 06 (Review) - “How far can companies go before they annoy their users?” asked Esther Dyson, chairman of EDventure Holdings, at last week’s Breakthrough: IIS 2013 Conference in New York. With Facebook’s new Search Graph, Google’s deeper searches and other initiatives based on user data, will the time come where people say the loss of privacy is not worth the enhanced information they can get?

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“Hands up! This is a robbery!”: Protests Continue in Spain

Tue, 05 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Global Voices - By Anna Williams - Feb. 05 (News Report) - People in Madrid have taken the streets in droves to show their fury with President Mariano Rajoy over new corruption allegations. Anna Williams shares her photographs of the protests.

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Search Option From Facebook Is Privacy Test

Sat, 19 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Somini Sengupta, Claire Cain Miller - Jan. 19 (News Analysis) - Whether Facebook’s users will continue to divulge even more private details will determine whether so-called social search is the next step in how we navigate the online world.

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Pakistan's Countrywide Shia Solidarity Protests End Peacefully

Thu, 17 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Global Voices - By Kumail Ahmed - Jan. 17 (Opinion) - After the bombings in Quetta killed more than 100 people of the Hazara Shia community, protests spread like fire across Pakistan. People from all sects and tribes joined hands together to show solidarity with the Hazaras chanting #WeAreAllHazara. Sit-ins were registered in more than 100 cities and towns.

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Don't Ask? Internet Still Tells

Thu, 22 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Quentin Hardy, Matt Richtel - Nov. 22 (Comment) - Sites like Google and Bing are showing the precise questions that are most frequently asked, giving everyone a chance to peer virtually over one another’s shoulders at private curiosities.

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Media war rages in Gaza

Mon, 19 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0800

aljazeera.com - By Safa Joudeh - Nov. 19 (News Analysis) - Gaza City - Israeli F-16 warplanes fired a missile at the Shawa Hossary media building in the early hours of Saturday morning, directly targeting the offices of Al Quds TV, a Hamas-affiliated satellite channel. The building was damaged, the channel trans

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Did the Obama administration know its Libya protest talk was inaccurate?

Mon, 19 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Josh Hicks - Nov. 19 (Opinion) - “It was clear that the State Department was able to witness this in real time. There is no indication that there was a mob. There is no indication that a video was the genesis of this. Why did the administration, for weeks, mislead the American people?

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Iranian Blogger Sattar Beheshti Tortured to Death

Tue, 13 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Global Voices - By Hooman Askary - Nov. 13 (Opinion) - Iranian netizens have launched a major online storm after the shocking news of a blogger's death in custody was first posted by opposition websites. Sattar Beheshti was arrested on October 28, 2012 and announced dead some ten days after his arrest.

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Portugal: Massive Protest Against Troika Sparks Momentum

Mon, 17 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Global Voices - By Sara Moreira - Sep. 17 (Opinion) - The biggest demonstration of the last decades in Portugal took place on September 15 2012 , under the anti-austerity motto "Screw troika! We want our lives". Nearly 1 million people took to the streets to protest against the government. Beyond discontent, bloggers are reflecting on new citizenship paths that might follow.

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Pakistan Reacts to Anti-Islamic Movie

Sat, 15 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Global Voices - By Sidra Rizvi - Sep. 15 (Opinion) - Pakistan has reacted to the anti-Islamic movie which prompted protests in Libya that left the US Ambassador and others dead. Diplomatic agencies across the country have tightened security, but so far protests have been angry yet peaceful.

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Meet the 'bots' that edit Wikipedia

Wed, 25 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - By Daniel Nasaw - Jul. 25 (Special Report) - Bots write and edit Wikipedia entries, but are they any good?

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Pakistan: Who Killed Pashto Singer Ghazala Javed?

Fri, 29 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Global Voices - By Kumail Ahmed - Jun. 29 (Opinion) - Ghazal Jawad, a charismatic Pashto singer was gunned down in the city of Peshwar. Mystery shrouds the identity of the real perpetrators. Was this an honor killing by her ex-husband, who disapproved of her singing? Or was this an act by the Taliban, who she defied throughout her career?

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Understanding the Violence in Western Myanmar

Sat, 16 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Global Voices - By Mong Palatino - Jun. 16 (Opinion) - Dozens dead, more than two thousand houses burned down, and thirty thousand residents have been displaced by the communal violence in Rakhine State, west of Myanmar. Who are responsible for these deaths? How was the internet used to spread hate and racism? What are the views of ordinary citizens on this very complicated issue?

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Journalism: The best of times, and the worst of times

Sun, 03 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0700

GigaOM - By Mathew Ingram - Jun. 03 (Interview) - Journalism professor Tim McGuire, a long-time newspaper editor and Pulitzer Prize judge, says there is much upheaval in the media industry but a lot of potential as well -- provided media entities give up their gatekeeper role and learn to serve their readers better.

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News articles as assets and paths

Sun, 27 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Buzzmachine - By Jeff Jarvis - May. 27 (Opinion) - This is the start of a new project I’m working on to brainstorm new forms, relationships, and (business) models for news. Responding to a current discussion on Twitter among @AntDeRose, @felixsalmon, @jayrosn_nyu & @davewiner about the form of articles, I’m posting it here. The discussion started when Jay challenged Anthony, as a representative of Reuters.

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Social journalism research helps explain how information is verified on Twitter

Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Poynter Institute - By Craig Silverman, Alfred Hermida - May. 16 (Interview) - Hermida, a founding member of the BBCNews.com team who now serves as an associate professor at the University of British Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism, also recently presented a paper at the International Symposium on Online Journalism about A

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Bahrain: Tear Gas, Violence Surround F1 Grand Prix Race

Sun, 22 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Global Voices - By Salah Almhamdi - Apr. 22 (News Report) - Bahrain hosts the Bahrain Grand Prix on April 22 but the run-up to the event has seen huge protests. In clashes police have been firing tear gas and stun grenades at protesters, and one protestor, Salah Abbas Habib, was found dead.

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Why Bob Woodward is wrong about the internet and journalism

Sat, 07 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

GigaOM - By Mathew Ingram - Apr. 07 (Opinion) - Veteran investigative reporter Bob Woodward said this week the internet would not be of much use in a case like Watergate, the story he helped break in 1972. But he misses the point about the value of using a multitude of sources instead of just one.

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The State of the News Media 2012

Sun, 25 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Pew Research - By Amy Mitchell, Tom Rosenstiel - Mar. 25 (Special Report) - In 2011, the digital revolution entered a new era. The age of mobile, in which people are connected to the web wherever they are, arrived in earnest. More than four in ten American adults now own a smartphone. One in five owns a tablet. New cars are manufactured with internet built in. With more mobility comes deeper immersion into social networking. For news, the new era brings mixed blessings. New research released in this report finds that mobile devices are adding to people’s news consumption, strengthening the lure of traditional news brands and providing a boost to long-form journalism. Eight in ten who get news on smartphones or tablets, for instance, get news on conventional computers as well. People are taking advantage, in other words, of having easier access to news throughout the day – in their pocket, on their desks and in their laps. At the same time, a more fundamental challenge that we identified in this report last year has intensified — the extent to which technology intermediaries now control the future of news.

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Mike Daisey: Reports of my Death have been Greatly Exaggerated

Tue, 20 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700

mikedaisey.blogspot.com - By Mike Daisey - Mar. 20 (Opinion) - In the last forty-eight hours I have been equated with Stephen Glass, James Frey, and Greg Mortenson. Given the tenor of the condemnation, you would think I had concocted an elaborate, fanciful universe filled with furnaces in which babies are burned to make iPhone components, or that I never went to China, never stood outside the gates of Foxconn, never pretended to be a businessman to get inside of factories, never spoke to any workers. Especially galling is how many are gleefully eager to dance on my grave expressly so they can return to ignoring everything about the circumstances under which their devices are made. Given the tone, you would think I had fabulated an elaborate hoax, filled with astonishing horrors that no one had ever seen before. Except that we all know that isn’t true.

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After 244 Years, Encyclopaedia Britannica Stops the Presses

Wed, 14 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Julie Bosman - Mar. 14 (News Report) - Bowing to the competition online, the encyclopedia's publisher said the 2010 edition, a 32-volume set that weighs in at 129 pounds, would be the last.

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What Journalists Need to Know About Facebook’s New Interest Lists

Sun, 11 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Journalism.org - By Jeff Sonderman - Mar. 11 (Review) -

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Hypothes.is Reputation Workshop

Sun, 04 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Wikipedia - By Dario Taraborelli - Mar. 04 (Special Report) - Hypothes.is founder Dan Whaley invited us to participate in the workshop to contribute to the design of this service with input from Wikimedia and to help them make design decisions for a suitable reputation model to be used by the service. Other prominent Wikipedia researchers (GroupLens founder John Riedl, and WikiTrust creator Luca de Alfaro) were among the participants.

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