March 2012
22 posts
Several Versions of Jean: The love for repaired... →
This is my best friend and the wonderful world of his mind :) Resisting the urge to edit. He is from Brasil.
severalversionsofjean:
I take a considerable about of caffeine through the ingestion of coffee. To make this activity more pleasant, I garnish it with a impeccable set of cup and spoon. The spoon is quite special to me because I honestly never seen one similar to it; probably due to my...
February 2012
24 posts
“I couldn’t work for another newspaper. I can only work for a paper where I can...”
– Journalist Zhanara Kasymbekova in The Fight to Publish, a film about Kazakhstan’s only mass-produced opposition paper.
(via Al Jazeera)
After Kazakhstan gained independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, a system of double standards was created. To the outside world, the language of democracy is...
The Ethics of Linking →
futurejournalismproject:
via GigaOM:
Late last week, TechCrunch writer MG Siegler broke the news that Apple was buying an app-discovery service called Chomp — although he didn’t say where that news came from, just that it was a reliable source. The Wall Street Journa l reported the same news several hours…
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“The reality is that there have never been as few wars as there are today....”
– Martin Lindstrom in his recent Fast Company article, How To Be Happy Anywhere
"Maintaining the 'appearance of balance' isn’t...
futurejournalismproject:
Are NPR’s new ethics guidelines the way for journalism organizations to handle themselves? NYU journalism deep-thinker Jay Rosen thinks so.
shortformblog:
With these words, NPR commits itself as an organization to avoid the worst excesses of “he said, she said” journalism. It says to itself that a report characterized by false balance is a false report. It...
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On Soka Education & News Literacy.
Last weekend I presented a paper at the 8th Annual Soka Education Conference held at my alma mater, Soka University of America. You can learn about the conference here. I discussed news literacy & Soka Education, an educational framework developed by the late Japanese educator, Tsunesaburo Makiguchi. You can poke around the conference site to learn more.
You can e-mail me for the actual...
“Washington correspondents from newspapers around the country were as unabashedly...”
– Michael Nelson, Virginia Quarterly Review. Why the Media Love Presidents and Presidents Hate the Media.
Our Presidents Day reading brings us to the history of American political journalism.
(via futurejournalismproject)
10 Great Tumblr Blogs for News Junkies - Social... →
futurejournalismproject:
imwithkanye:
The Economist: Self-ascribed as “the most trusted source of global news analysis,” The Economist has been delivering noteworthy news pieces since 1843. This Tumblr page aggregates thought-provoking quotes, the week’s cartoon, and curated long-form pieces from the Economist website and the magazine.
Short Form Blog: Short Form’s motto is: “Read a little....
The FJP: Free Speech vs. Privacy: Should we be... →
Now tumbling at FJP, thus the lag of Navigating Media posts. Look forward to lots of reblogs of myself :)
futurejournalismproject:
At the end of January, the European Commission released its official data protection rules, including a new directive, “the right to be forgotten,” which adheres to European law that protects information privacy, such as France’s le droit à l’oubli, sometimes...
“Personality is composed of two fundamentally different types of traits: those of...”
– Biological anthropologist Helen Fisher in This Will Make You Smarter, a fantastic collection of short essays by 151 big thinkers, who each answered the question, “What scientific concept will improve everybody’s cognitive toolkit?”
TFI Daily News: In Philippine Newsrooms, the Women... →
newstfionline:
By Carlos H. Conde, NY Times, May 16, 2011 MANILA—When a panel of executives from the Philippines’ top broadcasting networks defended their industry last September before legislators examining the news media’s conduct during a botched hostage rescue, the fact that four of the five executives…
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“Journalism is a manifestation of a basic human urge to know and to communicate...”
– Joel Simon in the Committee to Protect Journalists’ Annual Report. Via The Atlantic
CPJ’s findings reflect a profound shift toward reliance on Internet advocacy. “Blogging, video sharing and text messaging from cellphones now bring news from some of the most oppressive countries to...
“As journalism and the habit of reading decline, it seems entirely possible that...”
– Timothy Noah, New Republic. What the Heck is the ‘Political Intelligence’ Industry.
The News: The US House of Representatives killed a provision in an insider trading bill that would have required people involved in ‘political intelligence’ to register in the same way that traditional lobbyists...
