2007_3.pdf (application/pdf Object) Red Alert on the Green Beat. 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. I investigated the history, agreements of the land lease, the environmental impacts of the project, social impacts, and how much of the EIA [environmental impact assessment] was altered in favor of the investor. It took me five years to investigate the story.
After the first two parts of series were published, Jackson began receiving threatening phone calls, and two days before the last of the stories was to be published, the office of her newspaper, Newsline Samoa burned down. Who Tried to Kill Fang Xuanchang? - By Sam Geall. 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. Later that night at Beijing's Navy General Hospital, doctors sutured a 2-inch gash on the back of his head.
Why would someone try to kill Fang Xuanchang? Skyful_of_Lies.pdf (application/pdf Object) 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? And yet, the first news and analysis out of the base didn’t come from the experts. Reports like (in no particular order)… A New Horizon for the News - The New York Review of Books. 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. Earth Journalism Awards. Regine Alexandre. SensibleTalk.com. Pew Research Center: Mac's Back in Media Spotlight.
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. The world according to newspapers « Online Journalism Blog. 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 grasp several media trends at a glance. First, traditional newspapers are highly selective in their coverage of world news. Looking at the three British dailies, editors favour countries that are bigger and more populous, but also closer to home and better developed. Second, we see that web-only outlets do not offer such a different view of the world. The world according to newspapers is a project that came up while writing a dissertation for school. We will build a scraper that will automatically retrieve the data for the 164 countries on several newspapers and a Java or Flash interface that will morph the maps.
Climate Change Media Partnership. From the Field - Report from Bali: Getting developing country journalists to cover climate conference. Our Fellows: Arul Louis. International Center for Journalists - Advancing Quality Journalism Worldwide. Schork’s best piece from siege of Sarajevo.