Chennai website sued by Times Of India, Why this kolaveri ? Chennai based website TheWeekendLeader.com was featured at TruthDive.com for its efforts on Positive Journalism about an year back. I was shocked when informed about the 1 Crore legal notice issued to the website by Times Of India’s legal department yesterday. “The M Factor“ written by a contributing author at TheWeekendLeader, published this week has raised the eyebrows of a few in TOI and has resulted in the legal notice. It appears to me like a big brother threatening the small brother for stepping on his toes. TheWeekendLeader is a young website founded by P.C Vinojkumar – an ex Tehalka reporter and a well known journalist in the publishing media industry. Unlike traditional journalism, Citizen Journalism does not look for properly edited and formatted content, but for the spirit and soul of the citizens. Coming back to our topic – My friends at TOI – to be honest, yes I do feel that your team often overlooks my sentiments.
US court rejects FCC broadcast decency limit Oops! Apologies but the page you requested either doesn't exist or isn't available right now. Please check the URL for proper spelling and capitalization. If you're having trouble locating a destination on Yahoo!, try visiting the Yahoo! Please try Yahoo Help Central if you need more assistance. Today on Yahoo! 1 - 6 of 36 prev next CNN-IBN’s Citizen Journalist show wins at Asian TV Awards Sony’s ‘Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa’ and Colors’ ‘Girls Night Out’ declared Best General Entertainment and Best Reality programmes BestMediaInfo Bureau | Delhi | December 13, 2011 The Citizen Journalist Show on CNN-IBN was honoured at the prestigious 16th Asian Television Awards 2011 in the category of Best Cross Platform Content for the second consecutive year. The awards function was held in Singapore on December 8, and is television’s most celebrated event. It recognises excellence in programming, production. and performance was held in Singapore on 8th December 2011. Speaking on the occasion, Rajdeep Sardesai, Editor-in-Chief, IBN18 Network, said, “The show has helped hundreds of citizens to raise their voice against injustice prevailing in society and thereby continue to inspire citizens everywhere to fight to revive an infallible justice system. Besides, CNN-IBN’s special report, ‘Pakistan: The War Within’, was commended in the Best News Programme category. Info@BestMediaInfo.com
Citizens United Decision: ‘A Rejection Of The Common Sense Of The American People’ By Ian Millhiser on January 21, 2010 at 3:34 pm "Citizens United Decision: ‘A Rejection Of The Common Sense Of The American People’" In what could prove to be the most consequential Supreme Court decision in decades, all five of the Court’s conservatives joined together today to invalidate a sixty-three year-old ban on corporate money in federal elections. In the process, the Court overruled a twenty year-old precedent permitting such bans on corporate electioneering; and it ignored the protests of the four more moderate justices in dissent. Today’s decision is backwards in many senses. The majority, for its part, claimed that corporate political spending must be protected to prevent “taking the right to speak from some and giving it to others,” but they are simply wrong to claim that this is a case about free speech.
Filling the gaps: how citizen journalism is replacing local press - The Journalism Foundation The demise of regional papers and the rise of online media have opened up opportunities for individuals to run grass roots websites reporting on issues that matter to them, writes Naomi Westland. The aftermath of the Birmingham riots captured by blogger Adam Yosef. Yosef's was work was picked up by the BBC and Sky. BY REPORTING ON the workings of local councils and highlighting local events and issues, citizen journalists now have an increasing role in local democracy as falling advertising revenue means local papers are forced to slash their budgets. According to the Newspaper Society there has been a loss of 146 local papers over the last five years, many of them freesheets. Despite their best efforts, local papers often struggle to provide in-depth coverage of local politics and issues that affect their readership. Adam Yosef, creator of the I Am Birmingham site uses video to show a side of Birmingham that wasn’t being picked up by the mainstream press.
Is It A First Amendment Violation For Public Universities To Tell Athletes They Can't Tweet? Eric P. Robinson, from the Citizen Media Law Project has a fascinating post analyzing whether or not it's a First Amendment violation when public universities put in place policies forbidding athletes from Tweeting or using Facebook: It turns out that a number of public and private universities -- including Boise State, Indiana University, New Mexico State, Texas Tech, the University of Miami (private), and the University of North Carolina -- have followed the lead of the National Football League, which imposes limits on players' use of social media. The NFL prohibits players from using social media during games (and has attempted to extend this to others at the game). But the schools have gone further: Boise State banned players from using any social media during the season, while New Mexico State barred Twitter during the season. Meanwhile, the University of Miami, UNC, and Texas Tech all required football players to cancel their Twitter accounts entirely.
‘The camera is our weapon’ The Times Picture Annual 2011 edited by Darrin Zammit Lupi Allied Publications pp192ISBN: 978-99909-3-166-2 The new world of mobile phone photography has turned the public into instant photojournalistsand opened a door to “citizen journalism” that has toppled governments and dictators across continents. Thousands of images circulated around the globe before pictures from journalists actually came in - Patrick Fenech Top news channels worldwide now rely on amateur stills and footage to bring tragedy and glamour to our sitting rooms, with the screen warning: “What you are about to see has scenes of a graphic nature”. A Syrian demonstrator waves his mobile phone/camera high in his hands and shouts to a Sky News team “The camera is our weapon” as atrocities unfold around him. So where does this place the professional photojournalist in today’s scenario? Does he or she have to comply with the rigid ethical framework while amateur pictures make the front pages?
Supreme Court backs FCC: fleeting f-bombs can be punished - Ars Technica The Supreme Court ruled today on its first indecency case in 30 years. In a 5-4 decision (PDF), the justices supported the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) sanctions against Fox for a pair of live Billboard Music Award broadcasts containing some, err, "colorful metaphors." The ruling supports the FCC's ability not only to ban floods of offensive words, but also to sanction broadcasters for "fleeting expletives" uttered at live events. What fleeting expletives were involved in this case? The court itself is too squeamish to actually use the words upon which it is ruling hinges (Justice Scalia, who wrote the majority opinion, refers to them as the "S-Word" and the "F-Word"), but neither Cher nor Nicole Richie showed the same sensitivity during their respective time at the mic in 2002 and 2003. The FCC has long regulated dirty words on broadcast networks, especially during hours when children are likely to be listening. Scalia and company disagreed.