Tell-all telephone | Data Protection | Digital Betrayed by our own dataMobile phones are tracking devices that reveal much about our lives. One look at our interactive map of data provided by the Green party politician Malte Spitz shows why. Nuclear plants in your neighbourhoodHow many people live near a nuclear power plant in Germany? How many people lives within a radius of 20 kilometres? A United States of Europe? Dialysis How are the Dialysis Centers Near You? by Minhee Cho ProPublica, April 20, 2012, 3:02 p.m. A roundup of local coverage using data from our updated Dialysis Facility Tracker. Federal Grand Jury Probes Major Dialysis Provider by Robin Fields ProPublica, Aug. 4, 2011, 4:37 p.m. DaVita, the country’s second-largest dialysis provider, announced in a financial filing that a U.S. Dialysis: The Story So Far ProPublica, March 29, 2011, 4:22 p.m. Feds to Follow ProPublica, Release Dialysis Clinic Data by Robin Fields ProPublica, March 29, 2011, 9:41 a.m. Officials with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services told Sen. Led by California, Inspection Backlogs Weaken Dialysis Oversight by Robin Fields ProPublica, Dec. 28, 2010, 9:35 a.m. An investigation by ProPublica found that some states are failing to meet inspection targets for the nation’s more than 5,000 dialysis clinics. Explore Quality of Care at Dialysis Facilities Near You by Robin Fields ProPublica, Dec. 23, 2010, 5:12 p.m. Sen. Sen.
Multimedia: Returning soldiers deal with behavioral symptoms and recovery from traumatic brain injury (washingtonpost.com) Victims of gang violence: Caught in the crossfire After the smoke clears, physical and emotional pain endure for crime victims and their families. By Kurt Streeter It often chooses its victims blindly, bursting boldly into view, shocking, inexplicable and seemingly without warning. Violence may be lessening in Los Angeles but it still casts a dark cloud over many parts of the county and its surroundings. A reminder came recently when Aaron Shannon Jr., a 5-year-old dressed in his Spiderman costume, was killed on Halloween, police say, by gang members who shot into his backyard. But for those left behind -- maimed victims, husbands, mothers, best friends of the dead -- there is no forgetting. They spend years struggling against pain that is sometimes physical and almost always emotional. Some dip into long periods of depression, battling to keep their relationships, their jobs and their hope afloat. Rose Smith is a survivor. One of the bullets had shattered vital nerves in her spinal cord. Moving forward has not been easy. "Why me?"
Now What Argentina? | ¿Y Ahora Que? Online Journalism Award winners: Great projects but no hyperlocal sites September 26, 2011 Yesterday the Online News Association announced the winners of this year’s Online Journalism Awards. It’s a great list of exemplary digital media projects. This roster is also remarkable for what it does not include: work by any of the nation’s thousands of hyperlocal news sites… Perusing the list of awards, most of the winning projects were produced by major daily news brands with a strong print or broadcast presence (such as the BBC, CNN, NPR, The Washington Post and Al Jazeera) or by well-funded commercial production companies. The size category of ONA awards is determined by site traffic, not the size of the organization in terms of budget or staff. Voice of San Diego. This year’s ONA awards did include one “micro site”—NJ Spotlight, which has a staff of seven and which has received grants from the Community Foundation of New Jersey, the John S. and James L. No winner was named for the “Online Commentary/Blogging” in the small or medium site category.
2011 Online Journalism Award winners announced BOSTON — BBC News, Flipboard, the Los Angeles Times, Zeit Online and the Washington Post were among the news and technology organizations that took top honors tonight at the 2011 Online Journalism Awards Banquet. The Los Angeles Times (“Breach of Faith”) and Pro Publica (“Dialysis: High Costs and Hidden Perils of Treatment Guaranteed for All”) each won $2,500 and the Gannett Foundation Award for Innovative Investigative Journalism at the 12th annual awards ceremony. BBC News, The Globe and Mail, Voice of San Diego, NJ Spotlight, OWNI and LA NACION each won General Excellence Awards in their respective categories. Each award includes a $3,000 prize, courtesy of the Gannett Foundation. The Asbury Park Press took home the Knight Award for Public Service for “Barnegat Bay Under Stress,” which comes with a $5,000 prize from the John S. and James L. This year, the awards introduced changes to acknowledge the explosion of journalistic innovation on new digital platforms. Now What Argentina?
Nace el Instituto de la Innovación Periodística..¿y de la Comunicación? Recomendaba San Ignacio de Loyola no hacer mudanza en tiempos de tribulación y, por lo que parece, este consejo –que, dicho sea de paso, yo nunca entendí- no ha sido tenido en cuenta por los impulsores de la Fundación Instituto para la Innovación Periodística (2IP), que se acaba de constituir. Según ha podido saber este blog, dicha iniciativa será presentada oficialmente en las próxima semanas pero, como adelanto, ya podéis acceder a su web, aún en construcción, haciendo click en esta imagen. En época de cambios traumáticos, también en el mundo de la comunicación, los impulsores del Instituto 2IP le echan valor y apuestan por responder a los múltiples interrogantes que plantea la Sociedad en Red y, para ello, se ha constituido un grupo de investigación formado por profesionales de reconocido prestigio pertenecientes al sector de los medios, expertos y líderes de Internet, tecnólogos, catedráticos, profesores e investigadores universitarios.
Business - Jordan Weissmann - Why Porn and Journalism Have the Same Big Problem Nobody wants to pay for their products. Reuters The smut business just isn't what it used to be. The early days of the Internet were a bonanza for major pornography studios, as the web transformed adult entertainment into an instant, unlimited, and completely private experience -- always just a credit card charge and a cable modem away. But what the Internet giveth, the Internet taketh away. As the most recent Bloomberg Businssweek recounts in its feature on the rise of the new and controversial .XXX domain, the big production companies have seen their profits shrink by as much as half since 2007, as audiences have fled to aggregators such as XTube and YouPorn that offer up a never-ending stream of free naked bodies. Stuart Lawley, the entreprenuer behind .XXX, has a plan to try and reclaim some of that lost revenue -- micropayments. Next year, ICM plans to introduce a proprietary micropayment system. Yikes. In fact, it's a bit like getting them to pay for a newspaper.
Freedom of information: my monstrous idea will keep corporate tyrants at bay | George Monbiot Modern government could be interpreted as a device for projecting corporate power. Since the 1980s, in Britain, the US and other nations, the primary mission of governments has been to grant their sponsors in the private sector ever greater access to public money and public life. There are several means by which they do so: the privatisation and outsourcing of public services; the stuffing of public committees with corporate executives; and the reshaping of laws and regulations to favour big business. In the UK, the Health and Social Care Act extends the corporate domain in ways unimaginable even five years ago. With these increasing powers come diminishing obligations. In this column I will make a proposal that sounds – at first – monstrous, but I hope to persuade you is both reasonable and necessary: that freedom of information laws should be extended to the private sector. The very idea of a corporation is made possible only by a blurring of the distinction between private and public.
clasificación Mundial 2011-2012 África En África se amplió la distancia entre los buenos y los malos alumnos Los países que reprimieron las protestas populares vivieron caídas vertiginosas Si bien las primaveras árabes de 2011 no desbordaron el África subsahariana hasta el punto de hacer caer a los gobiernos, algunos regímenes enfrentaron fuertes reivindicaciones políticas y sociales. Este fue el caso de Angola (132º lugar), donde algunos periodistas fueron detenidos durante las manifestaciones en septiembre. Los países más cerrados y autoritarios, en la cola de la clasificación Por el control de los medios de comunicación y de la libertad de expresión en general que ejercen las autoridades, Reporteros sin Fronteras considera que la situación es “muy grave” en Ruanda (156º) y en Guinea Ecuatorial (161º). El hecho de que Costa de Marfil (159º lugar, ex aequo que Yibuti) se encuentre dentro de este grupo puede ser engañoso. Crece el grupo de los buenos alumnos Un progreso espectacular e incursiones notables En medio
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