Journalism is ripe for reformation! Today, is not journalists who have the most interesting stories but ordinary citizens, researchers and professionals wh
Ex-Channel 4 News economics editor tells International Journalism Festival that making a film about Greece gave him new insight into reporters’ knowledge
A bastion of investigative and public interest journalism since 1999, Scoop is part of an ever diminishing handful of independent news companies that still provide a home for quality journalism in Aotearoa.
“New technologies are leading to an exponential increase in the volume and types of data available, creating unprecedented possibilities for informing and transforming society and protecting the environment. Governments, companies, researchers and citizen groups are in a ferment of experimentation, innovation and adaptation to the new world of data, a world in which data are bigger, faster and more detailed than ever before. This is the data revolution.” – UN Data Revolution Group, 2014
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The New York Times is quietly changing the practice of science journalism. The Tuesday April 21, 2015 article: Ebola Lying in Wait, reports on "A growing body of scientific clues - some ambiguous, other substantive" that the Ebola virus may have lain dormant in West African rain forest for years before igniting last year's outbreak. In the 6th paragraph of the on-line edition mention is made of "a detailed prediction of other likely Ebola dangers zones" made by a team of scientists. The words "detailed prediction" are innocuously provided with the hyper-link above. What I think is extraordinary is that this link points to the scientific paper: Mapping the zoonotic niche of Ebola virus disease in Africa by David M Piggot et al. published on the open science publishing platform eLife. This is the real science including the measured language of a scientific paper, the lengthly descriptions of the data sets, the innumerable references and even the reviewers comments and the authors' responses. I don't think that there is a better way to cultivate a scientific outlook than to make relevant, science open and accessible.
Which tools to use to analyze and present open data made available by the Public Administrations. We will use LibreOffice for reprocessing statistical ...
tl;dr version: Journalists need tools that are built for the part of their job that is still done over the phone, on pen & paper, and in a non-scalable
Early last week, Ken Silverstein — former Harpers editor and co-founder with Alexander Cockburn of Counterpunch — quit Pierre Omidyar’s First Look Media, citing management incompetence. By the end of the week, he went a step further, publishing a searing takedown of First Look on Politico.
JOURNAL editors soon find out how collegiate their colleagues are when they try to find someone to review a paper. It is a lot of work but, as Mathieu O’Neil has discovered, sometimes an editor can wait months only to get back a useless paragraph.
Amy Goodman, host of the independent daily news show Democracy Now!, has been working to change the dominant narrative of capitalist media for three decades. “In independent media,” she says, “we have to tell the story as it’s happening and we have to de-construct the story being told in the rest of the media.”
Sharing is cool right now and engagement is growing across a number of engagement points. In cities we can see parking spots allocated to vehicles that are shared. There are websites dedicated to enabling people to share items used infrequently like tools and baby furniture. I have seen services in the US for sharing high-end fashion that would otherwise be out of reach. More and more restaurants have shared seating – large tables for eating with people you’ve never met. Sharing plates of food among people you dine with is also big – this all connected with the sharing economy.
Robert McChesney, a leader in challenging the corporate media's role in degrading democracy, carries on this fight with Blowing the Roof Off the Twenty-First Century. In the book, he makes an urgent and compelling argument for ending communication monopolies and building a post-capitalist democracy that serves people over corporations. You can obtain the book now with a contribution to Truthout by clicking here.
“Newspapers are supposed to have an infinite time horizon,” Shirky said from NYU's campus in Shanghai, China. “They're supposed to be around. They're more like churches or schools.”
“How can the power of algorithms be understood and, when called for, controlled? We are only starting to understand how these strings of computer code are shaping our view of the world. As researchers point out, inherent biases in algorithms can lead to startling discriminatory possibilities, with important consequences.
Working without pay should not be the expectation of online publications – or online writers. As the nation’s most popular blog, the Huffington Post sets the status quo for other online publications. The NWU is committed to fighting for fair pay for freelance writers. So we want to work with the Huffington Post to set high standards of quality online journalism that fairly compensates its writers. For more campaign updates, sign up at www.PayTheWriter.org
The internet is turning us into investigative journalists by default, and even though that journalism may be of the slacker variety, it actually works. In ConsumerLab's surveys, the number one reas...
Reflections on a Revolution is a platform for independent journalism that seeks, in the midst of the noisy cacophony of a rapidly changing world, to amplify the voices of our generation.
Elina Makri is the co-founder of oikomedia.com, a networked digital platform designed to trace and connect journalists, fixers and media professionals around the globe.
Armed with his laptop and a list of social media accounts, the 35-year-old citizen journalist combed Facebook and Twitter for sightings of the Buk missile launcher — believed to be responsible for shooting down the jet in July 2014.
It is far easier for the establishment to rule as long as they can keep the people thinking that they rule themselves. U.S. elections are a sham, and U.S. politicians are a disgrace. But as long as people can vote, they feel convinced that they can influence government.
NYU’s Clay Shirky calls Ken Doctor and me shills and nostalgists for our respective coverage of Aaron Kushner’s investment in The Orange County Register, and goes on to write that the “toxic runoff from CJR and Nieman’s form of unpaid PR is poisoning the minds of 19-year-olds.” - See more at: http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/a_reply_to_clay_shirky.php?page=all#sthash.XINMEOZ1.dpuf
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