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Boing Boing Twitter Subpoenas Chill Free Speech; Latest Example is in San Francisco American Civil Liberties Union News and Information (blog) In a disturbing trend that can have a chilling effect on free speech, law enforcement agencies around the...
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Tech in Asia China may only have 18000 active Twitter users: infographic South China Morning Post (blog) The number of active live Twitter users on the mainland might be as low as 18,000 – due to Beijing's strict internet censorship.
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Twitter may let users download archives of their own tweets, but the social network's strict rate-limiting and limited APIs make it tough for researchers to access the vast amount of data behind...
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Programmed for Primetime In These Times During the long era that followed—the heyday of CBS News and the New York Times—the dominant media's elite character was obfuscated by this cult of objectivity.
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new media are not so new, and are a lot about old issues of who gets to have a voice. Design Column #3 Likes brings together a selection of works that illustrate the double-edged nature of social media.
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New Yorker (blog) On Slow Journalism New Yorker (blog) I once asked my friend Paul Salopek for some thoughts on a writing project.
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The Drum The Difference In Censorship On Facebook And Twitter Forbes Perhaps this isn't censorship: in strict terms that refers to what a government insists is allowable or not.
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Toronto Star China hacks the press Columbia Journalism Review (blog) The NYT says China started targeting journalists five years ago “as part of an effort to identify and intimidate their sources and contacts, and to anticipate stories that might...
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Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard Journalism for democracy Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard As journalists try to figure out how to overcome the economic problems wrought by the digital revolution, they should also be rethinking what they are and...
Hacks/Hackers London met last night and looked at examples at how big data is changing financial journalism. The meetup of journalists and technologists, which took place at Bloomberg,heard from speakers from Reuters, Bloomberg, the Financial Times and OpenCorporates.
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I had the privilege of interviewing award-winning journalist Dan Archer, the creator of the Kickstarter project Graphic Journalism on Human Trafficking in Nepal. Project: Graphic Journalism on Human Trafficking in Nepal.
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QuartzHow to predict whether a new media venture will failQuartzWe all knew Rupert Murdoch's The Daily would fail, right? Probably not. A look back at coverage of the venture's launch in 2011 recalls excitement about the boldness of the experiment.
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Reuters Blogs (blog)Why we won't have tablet-native journalism | Felix SalmonReuters Blogs (blog)Last week, when the Daily died, I declared that the reason, in part, was that tablet-native journalism was impossible.
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After "If my son is gay" trended on Twitter for days in France, the country's Minister of Women's Rights said Twitter must begin to censor hate speech.
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Journalism.co.uk 10 things every journalist should know in 2013 Journalism.co.uk "Unfortunately or fortunately, depending on how you look at it, it is just not enough any more to just be able to turn a phrase, or do the traditional kinds of...
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Top 10 Media Stories of 2012: Social Election; Facebook's IPO; Drones PBS MediaShift As we drew closer to the 2012 presidential elections, news organizations engaged audiences with an unprecedented focus on social media, interactives, and Nate...
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Inside Forbes: A New Wave of Digital Journalist Is Showing a Profession the ... Forbes Very few “star” journalists of that time and space have made the trip to the digital world.
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Help Fund Data Journalism Education With This Kickstarter Mashable "Take a data journalism class," advises Dan Oshinsky, newsletter editor at Buzzfeed, in a tweet addressed to students at the Missouri School of Journalism (and followers of his...
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Our friends at Journalist's Resource, that's who. JR is a project of the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, and they spend their time examining the new academic ...
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To the joy of journalists everywhere, long-form content is making a comeback. Publishers are realizing that readers want some essays with their status updates — and a good e-book with their blogs. But what does this new ...
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Forbes Legacy's Media Offspring And Heir: Citizen Journalism Forbes On a basic level, Rawporter is a mobile app that let's you take a photo or video of what you see or witness and upload to an online marketplace where bloggers, media outlets, ad...
Solana Larsen is the managing editor of Global Voices Online, an internationally renowned community of bloggers and digital activists who report on online citizen media and free speech around the world, with translations in more than 20 languages. She is a Danish-Puerto Rican journalist and activist and was previously an editor with the global politics websiteopenDemocracy.net.
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Print-nostalgic editors (and even some editors who have only worked in digital media) take a certain amount of solace in the homepage. Online, it can feel like one of the only venues where editorial decision-making is visible at a glance (unlike newspapers, where the editor’s hand is in evidence on every page). As editorial agendas have become complicated with new concerns, like tweets and shares and clicks on individual stories, there remains a surprising amount of energy expended on the homepage. But as more and more traffic comes from search and social, the homepage as the entryway into a site’s content is increasingly obsolete.
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Nieman Journalism Lab at HarvardNick Diakopoulos: Understanding bias in computational news mediaNieman Journalism Lab at HarvardSimple decision criteria that lead to complex inclusion and exclusion decisions are one way that bias, often...
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Los Angeles TimesSymbolia invents new visual language for comics journalismLos Angeles TimesAnd the magazine will strengthen the bond between the words of journalism and comics, which have begun to get closer.
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