GOOD MORNING, LIBERIAN MEDIA
[SOURCE: The Christian Science Monitor, AUTHOR: Bill Glucroft]
Across Africa, local news organizations have been both victims and victimizers while operating under unstable regimes. Liberia's press enjoys far greater freedom now that it operates under a democratic system. But freedom is a blessing and a curse, says Oscar Bloh, director of Monrovia's Talking Drum Studio, a group started by the Washington-based Search for Common Ground. Mr. Bloh says the media still needs a comprehensive strategy to transform themselves from a business that will publish anything to make money, to one that sees itself as a public service that promotes stability.
http://benton.org/node/20060
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NEW YORK TIMES TO LAUNCH 'INSTANT OP-ED'
[SOURCE: Editor&Publisher, AUTHOR: Joe Strupp]
The New York Times is planning to launch a new "Instant Op-Ed" next month that will allow the paper's Web site to post immediate expert viewpoints on breaking news, according to Editorial Page Editor Andrew Rosenthal. "Our Op-Ed now is very rapid response, but it is at the most the next day," said Rosenthal. "We are looking at a way to take advantage of the expandability of the Internet, the back and forth of it and the instantaneous nature of the Internet. Taking ideas that have existed in Op-Ed form and giving them a robust position online." Rosenthal said three editors, among them former editorial writers, are teaming up with a Web producer to oversee the initiative. He said the team is gathering a list of numerous experts on a variety of issues to be ready to provide quick comments, essays and columns on issues or stories that come up in the news. He said the idea is to have a group that provides opinions soon after news occurs, with a solid Web space dedicated to them.
http://benton.org/node/20030
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Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
bits and pieces
WAL-MART PLANS TO MARKET DIGITAL HEALTH RECORDS SYSTEM
[SOURCE: New York Times, AUTHOR: Steve Lohr]
Wal-Mart Stores is striding into the market for electronic health records, seeking to bring the technology into the mainstream for physicians in small offices, where most of America's doctors practice medicine. Wal-Mart's move comes as the Obama administration is trying to jump-start the adoption of digital medical records with $19 billion of incentives in the economic stimulus package. The company plans to team its Sam's Club division with Dell for computers and eClinicalWorks, a fast-growing private company, for software. Wal-Mart says its package deal of hardware, software, installation, maintenance and training will make the technology more accessible and affordable, undercutting rival health information technology suppliers by as much as half.
http://benton.org/node/23139
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NEW JOB FOR THE MAN WHO EXPOSED COMCAST'S P2P THROTTLING
[SOURCE: ars technica, AUTHOR: Nate Anderson]
Robb Topolski, the man who helped to bring to light Comcast's throttling of P2P uploads, has a new job: Chief Technologist of the Open Technology Initiative at the New America Foundation. OTI is the New America unit headed by Sascha Meinrath. The move is significant because Topolski now serves in an official capacity with three of the main DC groups fighting for network openness and white spaces, New America, Free Press, and Public Knowledge. (He was already advising the latter two groups.) That combination of jobs should make Topolski an even more influential voice on network management issues in DC.
http://benton.org/node/23136
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SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER SAYS WORKERS TOLD JOBS WILL END
[SOURCE: Reuters, AUTHOR: Robert MacMillan]
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer has told employees they might lose their jobs as soon as next week after a deadline for Hearst Corp to sell the newspaper passed on Monday. Hearst, which also may close the San Francisco Chronicle if the paper cannot cut costs, has not yet decided what to do with the Seattle paper. "These options exist: 1) Seek buyer. If no buyer, then 2) Go digital, or 3) Close. No decision has been made," Hearst spokesman Paul Luthringer told the paper.
http://benton.org/node/23117
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CANADA REJECTS CUTBACKS ON US SERIES BUYS
[SOURCE: Reuters, AUTHOR: Etan Vlessing]
The Canadian government has rejected a proposal by the country's television regulator to curb domestic broadcasters' spending on U.S. series. Domestic broadcasters contend that they require the profits generated by airing U.S. series to subsidize the production of expensive homegrown dramas. Canadian independent producers, unions and guilds favor the CRTC's proposal for a so-called 1:1 ratio on Canadian and non-Canadian program expenditures as a welcome measure to promote homegrown series production.
[SOURCE: New York Times, AUTHOR: Steve Lohr]
Wal-Mart Stores is striding into the market for electronic health records, seeking to bring the technology into the mainstream for physicians in small offices, where most of America's doctors practice medicine. Wal-Mart's move comes as the Obama administration is trying to jump-start the adoption of digital medical records with $19 billion of incentives in the economic stimulus package. The company plans to team its Sam's Club division with Dell for computers and eClinicalWorks, a fast-growing private company, for software. Wal-Mart says its package deal of hardware, software, installation, maintenance and training will make the technology more accessible and affordable, undercutting rival health information technology suppliers by as much as half.
http://benton.org/node/23139
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NEW JOB FOR THE MAN WHO EXPOSED COMCAST'S P2P THROTTLING
[SOURCE: ars technica, AUTHOR: Nate Anderson]
Robb Topolski, the man who helped to bring to light Comcast's throttling of P2P uploads, has a new job: Chief Technologist of the Open Technology Initiative at the New America Foundation. OTI is the New America unit headed by Sascha Meinrath. The move is significant because Topolski now serves in an official capacity with three of the main DC groups fighting for network openness and white spaces, New America, Free Press, and Public Knowledge. (He was already advising the latter two groups.) That combination of jobs should make Topolski an even more influential voice on network management issues in DC.
http://benton.org/node/23136
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SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER SAYS WORKERS TOLD JOBS WILL END
[SOURCE: Reuters, AUTHOR: Robert MacMillan]
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer has told employees they might lose their jobs as soon as next week after a deadline for Hearst Corp to sell the newspaper passed on Monday. Hearst, which also may close the San Francisco Chronicle if the paper cannot cut costs, has not yet decided what to do with the Seattle paper. "These options exist: 1) Seek buyer. If no buyer, then 2) Go digital, or 3) Close. No decision has been made," Hearst spokesman Paul Luthringer told the paper.
http://benton.org/node/23117
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CANADA REJECTS CUTBACKS ON US SERIES BUYS
[SOURCE: Reuters, AUTHOR: Etan Vlessing]
The Canadian government has rejected a proposal by the country's television regulator to curb domestic broadcasters' spending on U.S. series. Domestic broadcasters contend that they require the profits generated by airing U.S. series to subsidize the production of expensive homegrown dramas. Canadian independent producers, unions and guilds favor the CRTC's proposal for a so-called 1:1 ratio on Canadian and non-Canadian program expenditures as a welcome measure to promote homegrown series production.
Monday, February 9, 2009
EU Map media news headlines
some enws headlines from eu map webpage:
http://www.eumap.org/
Pope stirs up Jewish fury over bishop
2009-01-25 · The Observer
Tension between the Vatican and Jewish groups ratcheted up after Pope Benedict XVI rehabilitated a bishop who has denied the Holocaust. Warning against the signal the decision sent, a Community Security Trust spokesman pointed out that "there has been a considerable increase in antisemitism from some of the eastern European churches".
Sarkozy's €600m aid for French papers
2009-01-24 · Irish Times
President Sarkozy has announced €600 million in emergency aid for the French newspapers, and promised a year’s free subscription for every 18-year-old. The press is in a crisis, but state involvement is a double-edged sword. An annual €1.5 billion in subsidies is counterweighed by politicians rewriting their own interviews and the president’s friends owning major newspapers.
Hungary’s Prime Minister Urges Anti Hate Speech Legislation Amid Right-Wing Attacks
2009-01-24 · BosNewsLife
PM Gyurcsany of Hungary has urged all political parties to implement strict legislation against hate speech amid concerns over growing far right groups. He accused the right wing and liberal parties of "attacking human rights" by blocking the legislation. Earlier this month, prosecutors banned the "Hungarian Guard", but it will appeal against the decision.
http://www.eumap.org/
Pope stirs up Jewish fury over bishop
2009-01-25 · The Observer
Tension between the Vatican and Jewish groups ratcheted up after Pope Benedict XVI rehabilitated a bishop who has denied the Holocaust. Warning against the signal the decision sent, a Community Security Trust spokesman pointed out that "there has been a considerable increase in antisemitism from some of the eastern European churches".
Sarkozy's €600m aid for French papers
2009-01-24 · Irish Times
President Sarkozy has announced €600 million in emergency aid for the French newspapers, and promised a year’s free subscription for every 18-year-old. The press is in a crisis, but state involvement is a double-edged sword. An annual €1.5 billion in subsidies is counterweighed by politicians rewriting their own interviews and the president’s friends owning major newspapers.
Hungary’s Prime Minister Urges Anti Hate Speech Legislation Amid Right-Wing Attacks
2009-01-24 · BosNewsLife
PM Gyurcsany of Hungary has urged all political parties to implement strict legislation against hate speech amid concerns over growing far right groups. He accused the right wing and liberal parties of "attacking human rights" by blocking the legislation. Earlier this month, prosecutors banned the "Hungarian Guard", but it will appeal against the decision.
Friday, January 23, 2009
"In Wake Of Killings, Russian Newspaper Wants To Arm Journalists"
from radio free europe / radio liberty:
http://www.rferl.org/Content/After_Killings_Russian_Newspaper_Wants_To_Arm_Journalists/1373529.html
http://www.rferl.org/Content/After_Killings_Russian_Newspaper_Wants_To_Arm_Journalists/1373529.html
"Lawyer Markelov and Journalist Baburova Shot Dead in Moscow"
Here is a report on the killings from Global Voices that includes some translated excerpts from some Russian bloggers.
From that story:
"Russian human rights lawyer Stanislav Markelov, 34, was shot to death Jan. 19 as he walked from a news conference along Prechistenka Street in central Moscow. Journalist Anastasia Baburova, 25, who accompanied Markelov, was also shot as she tried to intervene; she died in hospital a few hours later. Baburova was a freelance journalist for Novaya Gazeta.
Many Russian bloggers reacted with shock and outrage to the broad-daylight shootings of Markelov and Baburova. Below are some of the initial responses, translated from Russian.
LJ user tupikin:
[…] I've known Stas [Stanislav] for God knows how many years, from the early 1990s perhaps, from the time he was a law student. Then he finished his studies, cut his long hair short and became a lawyers who was defending the truth, defending human rights even when it seemed that it was impossible to defend them.
He worked in Chechnya against the federals, he worked against the police, he worked against the Nazis.
And he, damn it, was an incredibly cheerful and optimistic person, despite all these nightmares that accompanied him in life. […]"
From that story:
"Russian human rights lawyer Stanislav Markelov, 34, was shot to death Jan. 19 as he walked from a news conference along Prechistenka Street in central Moscow. Journalist Anastasia Baburova, 25, who accompanied Markelov, was also shot as she tried to intervene; she died in hospital a few hours later. Baburova was a freelance journalist for Novaya Gazeta.
Many Russian bloggers reacted with shock and outrage to the broad-daylight shootings of Markelov and Baburova. Below are some of the initial responses, translated from Russian.
LJ user tupikin:
[…] I've known Stas [Stanislav] for God knows how many years, from the early 1990s perhaps, from the time he was a law student. Then he finished his studies, cut his long hair short and became a lawyers who was defending the truth, defending human rights even when it seemed that it was impossible to defend them.
He worked in Chechnya against the federals, he worked against the police, he worked against the Nazis.
And he, damn it, was an incredibly cheerful and optimistic person, despite all these nightmares that accompanied him in life. […]"
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Middle East media articles
Middle East media * new links added 10/10
1) from Marion:
Arab TV controversies:
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1§ion=0&article=114280&d=14&m=9&y=2008
2) from Marion:
NYT article on Oprah and Saudi women
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/19/world/middleeast/19oprah.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=oprah%20saudi%20women&st=cse&oref=slogin
3) *** ex public diplomacy? US to fund pro american publicity in iraq
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/02/AR2008100204223.html
4) IN EMIRATES, NEWSPAPERS STILL A GROWTH INDUSTRY
Spacious and airy, the newsroom of the National seems a newfangled journalistic field of dreams, with its stylish furniture, flat-panel monitors and roomy, uncluttered desks. Though the new United Arab Emirates newspaper has a daily circulation of only 70,000 to 90,000, it has grand ambitions and leaders who are bullish on print journalism. Although most newspapers are laying off reporters and editors, the English-language National, which launched in April, has quickly built an editorial staff of about 240 reporters, stringers and editors, luring many from Western papers. Newland is a former editor of London's Daily Telegraph and the business editor is from the Wall Street Journal.
1) from Marion:
Arab TV controversies:
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1§ion=0&article=114280&d=14&m=9&y=2008
2) from Marion:
NYT article on Oprah and Saudi women
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/19/world/middleeast/19oprah.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=oprah%20saudi%20women&st=cse&oref=slogin
3) *** ex public diplomacy? US to fund pro american publicity in iraq
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/02/AR2008100204223.html
4) IN EMIRATES, NEWSPAPERS STILL A GROWTH INDUSTRY
Spacious and airy, the newsroom of the National seems a newfangled journalistic field of dreams, with its stylish furniture, flat-panel monitors and roomy, uncluttered desks. Though the new United Arab Emirates newspaper has a daily circulation of only 70,000 to 90,000, it has grand ambitions and leaders who are bullish on print journalism. Although most newspapers are laying off reporters and editors, the English-language National, which launched in April, has quickly built an editorial staff of about 240 reporters, stringers and editors, luring many from Western papers. Newland is a former editor of London's Daily Telegraph and the business editor is from the Wall Street Journal.
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