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Red Alert on the Green Beat : CJR
Violence and threats severely restrain environmental coverage in much of the world In 2007, Cherelle Jackson started publishing a three-part series of investigative reports that examined plans to develop tourism on an uninhabited island in her home country of Samoa. “The story involved some high profile investors and politicians,” she recalls. “It was to reveal names of everyone involved and their parts in the story.
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Who Tried to Kill Fang Xuanchang? - By Sam Geall | Foreign Policy
On the evening of June 24, Fang Xuanchang, a 37-year-old science and technology editor at China's Caijing magazine, finished work around 10 p.m. and began his walk home. Half an hour later he was nearing his apartment by Beijing's third ring road when he felt a sudden blow to his back. Fang turned to see two large men behind him brandishing steel bars. Fang tried to run away and then shield himself as the men, ignoring his attempts to communicate with them, struck him repeatedly across his back and head. Brawny and adept in martial arts, Fang not only remained conscious, but also managed to fight back. Finally, as Fang stumbled toward a taxi, his clothes soaked in blood, the attackers left the scene.
NSFW: After Fort Hood, another example of how ‘citizen journalists’ can’t handle the truth
I’d probably feel slightly smug, if I didn’t feel so sick. Smug that after two weeks of me suggesting that social media might not be an unequivocally Good Thing in terms of privacy and human decency , the news has delivered the perfect example to support my view. Unfortunately it’s hard to feel smug – hard to feel anything but sadness and nausea – when thirteen innocent people are dead. I’m talking, of course, about Thursday’s Fort Hood shootings . Better informed and more sensitive commentators than I have written about the massacre itself and what it means for the US army, and in particular for the thousands of Muslim soldiers currently fighting – and dying – for this country. How do you even begin to process the idea of an American soldier shouting the takbir , before mowing down his comrades in arms?The American news business today finds itself trapped in a grim paradox. Financially, its prospects have never seemed bleaker. By some measures, the first quarter of 2009 was the worst ever for newspapers, with sales plunging $2.6 billion. Last year, circulation dropped on average by 4.6 percent on weekdays and 4.8 percent on Sundays. Earlier this year, Detroit’s two daily papers reduced home delivery to three days a week, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer ended its print edition, and the Rocky Mountain News shut down altogether.
A New Horizon for the News - The New York Review of Books
This report was broadcast on Alsat-M news in both Macedonian and Albanian. It focuses on two themes: adaptation to climate change and irrigation. This report highlights how people can adapt to the effects of climate change by embracing new ideas: the villagers of Negorci, near the Macedonian town of Gjevgelia, are experimenting with the farming of tropical fruits as the temperatures are raising in the region. But the report also shows the problems related to irrigation, today and possibly in the next 50 years in Macedonia.
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From SourceWatch Regine Alexandre is a freelance journalist who has contributed to the New York Times , Associated Press , and has commented on National Public Radio (NPR). It transpires that she also is on the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) payroll. [1]
Regine Alexandre - SourceWatch
SensibleTalk.com
Some lies are like zombies - not matter what you try to do to kill them, they just keep coming back, feeding on people's brains. Consider what Ron Kaye wrote in the LA Times' Pasadena Sun this week, in reference to the Pasadena police killing an unarmed black teenager. "For so long, Pasadena, like much of America, has been a tale of two cities — one white, one black, and now, with a third of the population Latino, a tale of three cities," Kaye wrote. Okay, no problem there.
The Democratic candidates once again attracted the majority of campaign coverage last week -- and they were an eventful seven days. The two contenders split the May 20 primaries, with Hillary Clinton dominating in blue-collar Kentucky and Barack Obama winning in green-tilting Oregon. Clinton's determination to continue her campaign also generated more media speculation about a ticket uniting the two rivals.
Pew Research Center: Mac's Back in Media Spotlight
May 1, 2008 | More on Influence and networks , Off topic | No comments One of the trends we’ve seen in investment banking over the last two or three years is what PWC calls the ‘global war for talent’. Local banks in rich emerging market countries have more money to spend than their troubled rivals on Wall Street, so they’re hiring the top talent from western banks to join them. We’re seeing a similar process slowly occurring in the media. Western media are in financial trouble.
The globalization of media : Global Dashboard
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Climate cranks claim a scalp : Hot Topic · Global warming and the future of New Zealand
The cartograms below show the world through the eyes of editors-in-chief, in 2007. Countries swell as they receive more media attention; others shrink as we forget them . ( We also have a nice, embeddable Flash version with hi-res maps ) These maps allow you to gra sp several media trends at a glance.