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International Women's Media Foundation - Board and Staff
Every year the International Women’s Media Foundation honors brave women journalists who risk political persecution,injury and sometimes death in their efforts to expose corruption and champion human rights. The IWMF is working on ground-breaking research on the status of women in the media worldwide. The new study, the Global Report on the Status of Women in the News Media, will measure the career progress of women in the news media and use the results to help advocate for change.
Bravo's 'Silicon Valley' Reality Show Leaves Me With One Question - Forbes
So Bravo (home of shows such as ‘Real Housewives of…’, ‘Pregnant in Heels,’ and ‘Make Me a Supermodel’), have announced a new “Reality Show” based around Silicon Valley . I do hope the prospective cast (Hermione Way, Ben Way, Kim Taylor, Jay Holanda, Marcus Lovingood, Dwight Crow, and David Murray) know what they’re letting themselves in for.
Syria detains, reportedly tortures videographer - Committee to Protect Journalists
New York, April 2, 2012--A prominent Syrian videographer who ran the media center in Baba Amr where two foreign journalists were killed in February has been detained since Wednesday, according to news reports .
Google spent $70M on U.S. TV ads in 2011 | VentureBeat
A company that makes 96 percent of its revenue from advertising is becoming a massive media buyer itself — and in a far more traditional sense than one might at first anticipate. In 2011, Google spent nearly $70 million on U.S. television spots to advertise products including its social-networking site Google+ and the Chrome web browser, according to the firm Kantar Media. The television-ad spend figure ballooned from just $6 million in 2010 when the search giant ran its first-ever Super Bowl commercial.
Pro Quote campaign demands 30% quota across media as calls for more representative leadership grows in Germany
Germany's top female journalists call for women quotas in media | World news | The Guardian
There’s a lot of griping flying around the tech blogosphere about “chaff” articles — quick-fire posts that are between 100 and 300 words, perhaps, that just deliver a single bite of information. Brad McCarty over at The Next Web and MG Siegler are both crying foul.
A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE SYNOPSIS: Why Summaries Are Better Journalism « Wire
One year: Project examines gender representations in the New Media Index « The Gender Report
Editor’s note: In January 2011, we set out to examine the ways in which women are represented in online news both as sources and as authors.
Sarah Stierch: SOPA Blackout: Why Wikipedia Needs Women
Do you know who Ada Lovelace is? She is considered the world's first computer programmer.Twenty years from now, the children of today may not remember this moment in history, but they might remember watching a LOLcats video on YouTube, or they could recall that fun website, Google, that changed their logo for every holiday. Or if they’re a bit older, they’ll recall the wonderful online encyclopedia that they used to research class projects.
The great Internet blackout of 2012 | City Brights: Sarah Granger | an SFGate.com blog
Imagine a world where YouTube, Flickr, Facebook or Twitter had never been created due to the cost of regulatory compliance. Imagine an Internet where any website where users can upload text, pictures or video is liable for copyrighted material uploaded to it. Imagine a world where the addresses to those websites could not be found using search engines like Google and Bing, even if you typed them in directly.
Congress considers anti-piracy bills that could cripple Internet industries - O'Reilly Radar
CNN’s ‘Silicon Valley’ Special Ignites Heated Race Debate | Urban Faith
CNN’s fourth Black in America documentary, “The New Promised Land: Silicon Valley,” hasn't even aired yet, but it’s already sparking a debate about racism in the tech start-up community.I t was January 2010, and investigators with the International Atomic Energy Agency had just completed an inspection at the uranium enrichment plant outside Natanz in central Iran, when they realized that something was off within the cascade rooms where thousands of centrifuges were enriching uranium.
How Digital Detectives Deciphered Stuxnet, the Most Menacing Malware in History | Threat Level | Wired.com
ACLU sues US to declassify cables already published by Wikileaks - Boing Boing
By Xeni Jardin at 3:19 pm Friday, Jun 10 " The American Civil Liberties Union today sued the State Department over its insistence on keeping classified a set of diplomatic cables describing the government's efforts abroad to avoid attention or accountability over its actions connected to the 'War on Terror,' despite the fact that the documents have already been released by WikiLeaks."June 9, 2011, 1:36 pm On Friday, the State of Alaska will release more than 24,000 of Sarah Palin’s e-mails covering much of her tenure as governor of Alaska. Times reporters will be in Juneau, the state capital, to begin the process of reviewing the e-mails, which we will be posting on NYtimes.com starting on Friday afternoon.
Help Us Investigate the Sarah Palin E-Mail Records - NYTimes.com
I’ve spent a lot of time thinking and speaking about innovation – in government, politics, policy and media. While innovation may be commonplace in the San Francisco Bay Area, where entrepreneurship is the top keyword on LinkedIn profiles and creativity is generally rewarded, innovators often get pushed out of more traditional organizations. I’ve alluded to this in the past in terms of how difficult it’s been for some older newspapers and magazines to shift to new media models, but innovation goes far beyond just moving with the times.