America and Iraq: A litany of abuse. Home. All RISJ Publications. Hard copies of our publications can be purchased from Amazon , the University of Oxford Online Store and I.B Tauris Here is a selection of publications published or co-published by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. The publications can be downloaded in PDF format, by clicking on the links, or right-clicking and choosing 'Save Target as...' to save the file directly to your computer.
Trust and Journalism in a Digital Environment By Bernd Blöbaum This paper examines the relationship between trust and journalism. The Ethics of Journalism: individual, institutional and cultural influences Eds Wendy N. This volume provides a comparative global analysis of the ethical challenges faced by the media in the twenty-first century, considering the various individual, cultural and institutional influences facing practicing journalists. What If There Were No BBC Television? By Patrick Barwise and Robert G. By Helen Caple & Monika Bednarek Content Taxes in the Digital Age By Teresa Ashe Eds. Reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/fileadmin/documents/Publications/Challenges/Are_Foreign_Correspondents_Redundant.pdf. En.rsf.org/IMG/pdf/rapport_irak_2003-2010_gb.pdf. World Report - Iraq. Reporting From Iraq: The Toughest Assignment. For the past six weeks, I have worked as the bureau photographer for The New York Times in Baghdad. This was my first visit to Iraq, and although I have worked in Afghanistan, Gaza and Yemen, I have found Iraq to be among the most difficult places to do my job.
For now, much of the violence seems to have subsided and life is slowly improving. Markets, commercial areas and nightlife are blossoming. Occasional explosions and gunfire briefly shatter the calm, but people maneuver around the roadblocks and continue on their way to work or university. I have accessed some glimpses into the lives of Iraqi women. But fear lingers. The fear is what makes working here difficult.
It is nearly impossible to photograph the aftermath of a street battle or IED. In any conflict zone, personal safety must come first. Despite all of this, Iraq has grown on me. Holly Pickett is a freelance photojournalist based in Cairo, Egypt. Journalist Security Guide - Reports. Unami.unmissions.org/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=uGUYVCu7UBs%3D&tabid=2790&language=en-US. Reporting in Iraq. Iraq War Logs. Reporting Iraq: Journalists' Coverage of a Censored War. February 7, 2008 | Like this article? Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. The late British journalist James Cameron, known for his coverage of the Vietnam War, said of his journalism, "I may not have always been satisfactorily balanced; I always tended to argue that objectivity was of less importance than truth.
" Perhaps in times of peace, objectivity naturally hews closer to truth. But when leadership misleads (or, euphemisms be damned, lies to ) the public, journalists bear a greater responsibility. "Reporting" can all too easily translate into providing a megaphone for intentionally misleading information. It is these issues that are at the forefront of Reporting Iraq: An Oral History of the War by the Journalists Who Covered It. Mike Hoyt, co-editor of Reporting Iraq and executive editor of the Columbia Journalism Review recently sat down with AlterNet to discuss some of the major themes raised by these war-time journalists. MH: It was. MH: Yeah. Killing the Messenger: The Silencing of Journalism in Iraq. “All kidnappings and assassinations are completely rejected… especially when kidnapping a journalist. Journalists are here to tell the world about the occupation so kidnapping a journalist is going to hide the truth … This journalist; Jill Carroll… is one of the great journalists who are against the occupation.
She is considered one of the best journalists who stood against the American occupation of Iraq and she focused in her articles on… telling the world about the Iraqi people’s suffering”. (Muthanna Harith al-Dhari, Iraq’s Muslim Scholars Association.) After the mass destruction of the city of Basra in the 1991 U.S. war on Iraq – using massive amounts of fire bombs, napalm, cluster bombs and anti-personnel bombs –, journalists of Western mainstream media tried very hard to cover up Western war crimes and shift the blame elsewhere. As time passed, journalists sank deeper in dishonesty and complicity in the war crimes against the Iraqi people.
Iraq: Journalists in Danger - Reports. CPJ compiled a detailed statistical profile of journalists and media workers killed on duty in , from the beginning of the invasion in March 2003 through October 2009. This analysis also includes data and capsules reports on journalists abducted from March 2003 through October 2009, and CPJ reports and background briefings. CPJ regularly updated this analysis during the first six years of the war. CPJ concluded its regular updates in October 2009, as media deaths and abductions subsided. • Media workers killed • Abductions • Background reports Below are data regarding journalist deaths. CPJ considers a journalist to be killed on duty if the person died as a result of a hostile action--such as reprisal for his or her work, or crossfire while carrying out a dangerous assignment. By Year:• 2009: 4 • 2008: 11 • 2007: 32 • 2006: 32 • 2005: 23 • 2004: 24 • 2003: 14 By Gender: • Men: 128 • Women: 11 By Circumstance: • Murder: 89 • Crossfire or other acts of war: 50.
Journalists Killed in Iraq. 164 Journalists Killed in Iraq since 1992/Motive Confirmed Statistical Analysis All figures are rounded to the nearest full percentage point. * May add up to more than 100 percent because more than one category applies in some cases. 164 Journalists Killed in Iraq/Motive Confirmed Terminology explained Muthanna Abdel Hussein, Al-Iraqiya March 10, 2014, in Hilla, Babylon province, Iraq Khaled Abdel Thamer, Al-Iraqiya Firas Mohammed Attiyah, Fallujah TV January 20, 2014, in Khalidiya, Iraq Jamal Abdul-Nasser Sami, Salaheddin TV December 23, 2013, in Tikrit, Iraq Raad Yassin Al-Baddi, Salaheddin TV Wassan Al-Azzawi, Salaheddin TV Nawras al-Nuaimi, Al-Mosuliya TV December 15, 2013, in Mosul, Iraq Kawa Garmyane, Rayel, Awene December 5, 2013, in Kalar, Sulaymaniyah, Iraq Wadih Sa'ad al-Hamdani, Baghdad TV November 27, 2013, in Basra, Iraq Alaa Edward Butros, Freelance November 24, 2013, in Mosul, Iraq Bashar al-Nuaimi, Al-Mosuliya TV October 24, 2013, in Mosul, Iraq Mohammed Ghanem, Al-Sharqiyah Khalid W.
Journalists in Iraq - A Survey of Reporters on the Front Lines. After four years of war in Iraq, the journalists reporting from that country give their coverage a mixed but generally positive assessment, but they believe they have done a better job of covering the American military and the insurgency than they have the lives of ordinary Iraqis. And they do not believe the coverage of Iraq over time has been too negative. If anything, many believe the situation over the course of the war has been worse than the American public has perceived, according to a new survey of journalists covering the war from Iraq. Above all, the journalists—most of them veteran war correspondents—describe conditions in Iraq as the most perilous they have ever encountered, and this above everything else is influencing the reporting. A majority of journalists surveyed (57%) report that at least one of their Iraqi staff had been killed or kidnapped in the last year alone—and many more are continually threatened.
Even the basics of getting the story are remarkably difficult. Journalists in Iraq - A Survey of Reporters on the Front Lines. One.Tree.Hill.s08e10.hdtv.xvid-fqm. And Death Shall Have No Dominion by Dylan Thomas. Source - Journalism Code, Context & Community - A project by Knight-Mozilla OpenNews. The Benghazi Embarrassment - Jeffrey Goldberg. The embarrassment of the attack on the American consulate in Benghazi is not that it happened. America has its victories against terrorism, and its defeats, and the murder of Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three American security personnel represents one defeat in a long war. The embarrassment is that political culture in America is such that we can't have an adult conversation about the lessons of Benghazi, a conversation that would focus more on understanding al Qaeda affiliates in North Africa, on the limitations and imperfections of security, and on shortfalls in our intelligence gathering, than on who said what when in the Rose Garden.
What we've got now is a discussion about who needs to be fired, and which candidate is in a better position to score cheap points. Does Mitt Romney actually think that Barack Obama doesn't believe that what happened in Benghazi was an act of terror? Four quick points: 4) As Blake Hounshell put it, "Amb.
County's cash woes in the spotlight - live. Guardian 'seriously discussing' end to print edition. Un duh gri. Note, stări, zile. Clouds Over Cuba. Q&A: Rich Brown of Thomson Reuters Takes The Pulse of Machine Readable News, Social Media and Sentiment | Low-Latency.com. As pointed to in our recent coverage, machine readable news is expanding its asset scope and geographical delivery. A good time, then, for IntelligentTradingTechnology.com to get an inside view on the topic from Rich Brown, head of Elektron Analytics at Thomson Reuters.
Q: What's your assessment on the current state of play re. trading firms using machine readable news services as part of their trading strategies? A: The use of machine readable news in trading strategies has been growing dramatically over the last few years, but its widespread adoption is still in its early stages. Increasingly, firms are incorporating it into their processes in a defensive posture, utilising it as a circuit breaker or as a way to inform of future volatility to better time trades. Q: And the same question but about trading firms using social media sources? A: The use of social media in trading strategies is in its infancy.
Q: How much is sentiment analysis playing into trading decisions? Closing the gap. Reuters Institute Digital Report 2012. We are excited to announce our newest Reuters Institute Digital Report for 2012 , revealing insights about digital news consumption across Europe and the United States. The Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (RISJ) , based out of the University of Oxford , was established in fall 2006 and heavily supported by the Thomson Reuters Foundation .
The Institute is a testament to Oxford University’s commitment to recognizing the role of independent media in the world, and bringing the depth of academic journalism to the field. The report is based on a survey of online news companies in five countries – UK, US, Germany, France, and Denmark – and is part of an ambitions endeavor to track digital news behavior over the next decade. Some of the key findings in the report range from the significant differences in how people of different nations access their news, how frequently news is switching from print to digital, the rise of smartphone usage, and digital news and the age gap. Did Mitt Romney really ask for 'binders full of women?' | World news. It took two weeks and nearly four hours of debate, but during Tuesday night's presidential debate, the conversation around women in America finally shifted from all the abortions we may or may not be having to the money we're definitely not making (have never made, actually, but who's counting?).
When confronted with a question about how he'd tackle the issue of income inequality, Romney dodged the numbers – the 72¢ women earn to a male counterpart's dollar – and talked instead talked about making the workplace more woman-friendly. For women with families, Romney was trying to make a fair point: the US has rigid, inflexible or just non-existent provisions in place for working families. The problem with his response was that it was not only a patronizing, fumbled approach to an empathetic response, but that it might actually be untrue.
Here's the question from town hall participant Katherine Fenton: Here's what Mitt Romney said: Still funny? That's up for you to decide: Work and family: Baby blues. Jobless rate at record high, budget looms. LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's unemployment rate held at a 16-year high in the three months to January and the youth unemployment rate rose to a record high, piling pressure on the government to introduce policies to boost growth and jobs in next week's budget. Unemployment on the broader ILO measure inched down to 2.666 million for the November-January period from 2.671 million in the three months to December, but the overall rate held at 8.4 percent, a rate that prior to recent months was last equalled in the three months to January 1996. Other figures released on Wednesday showed an unexpected slowdown in wage growth further squeezing household budgets with inflation still well above the central bank's 2-percent target. Economists welcomed signs of stabilisation in the labour market as an indicator Britain looks likely to avoid a return to recession, but they warned that the recovery from the contraction in the final quarter of 2011 remained fragile.
Leveson inquiry: David Cameron spurns questions on 'missing' letters | Media. David Cameron said he would not answer any of Chris Bryant's questions until he had apologised for 'releasing embargoed information' about the PM. Photograph: PA David Cameron has refused to answer whether he held back dozens of communications between himself and Rebekah Brooks from the Leveson inquiry because they were "too salacious or embarrassing" for him to reveal.
Cameron was challenged during prime minister's questions (PMQs) after it emerged this week that he did not hand over texts and emails of a social nature with the former News of the World editor after seeking legal advice, since they did not fall within Lord Justice Leveson's remit. Chris Bryant, shadow Home Office minister and himself a victim of phone hacking, urged Cameron during PMQs to publish all the correspondence. He went on: "And he has never apologised. Do you know what, until he apologises I am not going to answer his questions. " Comments on Top jobs: Too many suits. Daily chart by the Economist. Robin Walker MP, Worcester. Voting Summary More Here How Robin Walker voted Randomly generated selection of topics. See full list. Voted moderately for reducing housing benefit for social tenants deemed to have excess bedrooms (which Labour describe as the "bedroom tax")Details Voted moderately against raising welfare benefits at least in line with pricesDetails Voted very strongly against a wholly elected House of LordsDetails Voted very strongly for an equal number of electors per parliamentary constituencyDetails Voted very strongly for greater restrictions on campaigning by third parties, such as charities, during electionsDetails Voted very strongly against paying higher benefits over longer periods for those unable to work due to illness or disabilityDetails See our much more detailed, easier-to-read analysis of votes on health, welfare, foreign policy, social issues, taxation and more.
Robin Walker hardly ever rebelled against their party in this parliament Numerology Register of Members’ Interests 4. German Press Review of New Berlin Reform Plans for Euro Zone. Three days before the next European Union summit, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble presented a major proposal on Tuesday for permanently shoring up the euro. At the core of his proposal is a plan to strengthen the role of the European commissioner for monetary and currency affairs. The post, currently held by Olli Rehn of Finland, would be upgraded to become a sort of super austerity commissioner who would have the right to reject national budgets -- even after they have been approved by parliaments.
In order to prevent accusations of any democratic deficit, members of the European Parliament would also be given a say. But those members of parliament would be exclusively those who represent the 17 euro-zone countries. The idea isn't new, but it is certainly packs some heat. There is also considerable skepticism over whether the necessary changes to the European treaties could be made in a timely manner. British Opposition Certain Britain isn't the only challenge, though. Duedil | Search Companies House Information For Free. How the Poor Die. Could deja vu be explained by grid cells? Petitie: "Spune NU desființării TVR Cultural!"- PetitieOnline.ro. Marijuana backers courting conservatives.
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