PressEthic

No you don't

Still some money left in the biz

Pajamas Media

Yes, the media landscape is changing. But how to take advantage of it?

The local television news network of Rwanda, Rwanda Television or TVR, will soon recieve training and support from the Japanese government.

New Media Ownership Laws in Australia

The American editor-in-chief of the South China Morning Post, one of Asia's largest English language daily newspapers, is in a difficult, and rather humorous, predicament.

Around 80 of his employees are petitioning for his dismissal after he fired two of their colleagues last week. His beef with the newly unemployeds was over a gag-newletter they produced to celebrate a long-term colleague's retirement. Apparently this sort of mock-tribute is traditional is some newsroom cultures. The front page of the joke-paper in question had a headline that ran:

We've talked alot in this class, and in the program in general, about the respective functions of print and online media, the decline of print, etc. ScientificAmerican.com recently published an article explaing how they utilized both online and print formats cooperatively in their coverage of a single topic.

The gist is this: Scientific American published a basic synopsis of the topic (discovery of a fossilized human ancestor) immediately online, including a link where readers could answers questions about what other information they wanted to see in the published piece. Then, factoring in reader responses, they published a much more thorough piece several weeks later.

He built this city on rock n roll

Libya has been much in the news recently as the trial, in Tripoli, of five foreign health workers accused of deliberately infecting Libyan children with HIV is coming to a close.

From CNN

The medics were found guilty in a first trial in 2004 and sentenced to death by firing squad. But the supreme court overturned the ruling last year and ordered the case returned to a lower court.

The medics have denied the charges in both their first and second trials and have repeatedly testified that they were tortured to make them confess.

Dick Cheney recently said that he believed the surge in violence in Iraq to be an attempt by insurgents to affect the upcoming American election. After all, they have access to the internet as well.

Now, I realize that my ability to tap into the "insurgent" mind is rather limited. One significant reason being I don't speak Arabic. So I went searching around English language Arab sites for some coverage of the midterm elections. What I found falls far short of a provocation to bomb a crowded marketplace for the detriment of Republicans, but it was interesting nonetheless.

Doesn't Bush seem to be holding press conferences constantly these days? Aren't we awfully close to a major election? Do these two things have any relationship? I'm betting they do, and to support my argument, lets briefly look at the substance of these press conferences.

You see, he does care

On the Eve of the International Network

A big big question that I just can't answer