"BBC must reign in commercial arm"

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7986259.stm

"faux-bama" ads in Turkey

Nice work..if you happen to look like President Obama!

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=102729557

South East Europe Center for Professionalization of the Media

http://www.seenpm.org/new/

Some new reports from our friends at SEENPM

Aspen Institute

http://www.aspeninstitute.org/policy-work/communications-society

some publications here that might be of interest.

Critical urbanism

http://criticalurbanism.wordpress.com/

A blog.

CIVICUS

http://www.civicus.org/newsletters

World Alliance for Citizen Participation

form their site:

"CIVICUS' Civil Society Watch (CSW) Team produces an on-line Monthly Bulletin to highlight cases in which the existence of civil society is threatened worldwide and to provide opportunities to take action. The CSW programme aims to mobilise quick, principled and effective responses to events that threaten civil society's fundamental rights to collectively express, associate and organise throughout the world.

The CSW Monthly Bulletin provides a forum to hear the voices of civil society and to disseminate as widely as possible cases in which the existence of civil society is threatened worldwide. The bulletin is disseminated every second Friday of the month."

the role of the citizen

http://www.songofacitizen.com/songofacitizen.com/V2.html

Really nice video op/ed called "Constant Vigilance" from Annenberg's Dean Michael X. Delli Carpini