I asked my 18-year old recently where she gets her news. To my surprise, she said from Twitter — and she didn’t mean by following the Washington Post or New York Times.
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Category Archive: Online Journalism
Apr 03
Oligarchs inspire creation of first Baltic investigative reporting center
What’s a hard-nosed reporter to do when her financially ailing newspaper is taken over by the people she likes to investigate? Inga Springe quit her job and set about raising money for creation of the Baltic region’s first nonprofit investigative reporting center. UPDATE: The center opened this fall with an exposé on money laundering.(Image courtesy of guigo.eu)
Mar 18
Drogin: The most influential media in Egypt revolution weren’t social
An estimated 5 million Egyptians are on Facebook. How did the other 77 million get word of the revolution?
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Mar 04
New media entrepreneur seeks real water cooler for virtual world
There’s no water cooler on the Internet. A Baltimore podcaster thinks an old idea for socializing is just what the new media community in Baltimore needs.
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Feb 18
New force to afflict the comfortable, comfort the afflicted
The masses once had to rely on a shrinking pool of foreign correspondents to carry their message to the world. Investigative reporter Ken Silverstein talks about how Twitter has changed all that.
Feb 08
An audio entrepreneur
Radio journalist Andrew Kromah uses cell phones, solar power and transistor radios to promote independent reporting in Sierra Leone.
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IRE ExtraExtra
- After coming forward, military sexual assault victims diagnosed with mental disorders"A seven-month San Antonio Express-News investigation into the pervasive and long-standing problem of sex assaults in the military shows victims who report the incidents often are retaliated against and discharged on false claims that they have mental disorders. Offenders, meanwhile, are rarely punished, and most are allowed to stay in the armed forces. […]
- Extra Extra Monday: Sexual assaults in the military, data breaches, CDC emails and power tool injuriesTwice Betrayed | San Antonio Express-News “A seven-month San Antonio Express-News investigation into the pervasive and long-standing problem of sex assaults in the military shows victims who report the incidents often are retaliated against and discharged on false claims that they have mental disorders. Offenders, meanwhile, are rarely punished, and most are […]
- Green energy company may be breaking California waste disposal laws"KCRA obtained video of hundreds, possibly thousands of mercury-containing fluorescent bulbs and PCB containing ballasts stored outside, in the open air behind a Sacramento contractor’s facility. State law explicitly states that all these materials must be in a container to prevent leakage and breakage, yet a former employee says the company ran out of […]
China Media Project
- Ai Weiwei makes music debut with dark video for single "Dumbass" May 23, 2013Artist and celebrity dissident Ai Weiwei (艾未未), known for his provocative works of art making thinly veiled criticisms of Chinese society and politics, formally made his rock music debut this week with the video release of his single "Dumbass." The video, filmed by Australian cinematographer Christopher Doyle, directly references the nearly three m […]dbandurski
- Red Flag Journal: Would the West allow "flesh searches"? May 23, 2013The CCP's official Red Flag journal has run a series of articles recently calling for stricter controls on online public opinion in China. A piece posted to the website of Seeking Truth on May 21 answered a question from a reader raising concerns about the phenomenon of the "human flesh search" (crowdsourced investigation and often hazing of i […]dbandurski
- Party journal: Chinese media must create cohesion, not division, as the country nears its "dream" May 21, 2013An article from the CCP's Red Flag journal posted to the website of Seeking Truth argues today that there are now two types of media in China: traditional media (print and broadcast) and internet-based new media. Both, says the article, must push for social cohesion. Now, as China reaches it's "dream," is not the moment to upset the boat, […]dbandurski