World Press Freedom Day Round-Up: “In 2012, 1 journalist is killed every 5 days.”
- Check out Global Voices’ Threatened Voices Project, which is a collaborative database that maps bloggers who have been threatened.
- The Committee to Protect Journalists has released a Journalist Security Guide that’s really comprehensive (H/T: Future Journalism Project)
- CPJ also has recent article on safer mobile use for journalists and a list of the 10 most censored countries.
- A WNYC interview with reporter Sebastian Junger about the organization he founded, Reporters Instructed in Saving Colleagues, after the death of his friend and colleague Tim Hetherington.
- UNESCO has used the Ushahidi platform to crowdsource a map of World Press Freedom celebrations.
- UNESCO is honoring Azerbaijani journalist Eynulla Fatullayev with its annual Guillermo Cano freedom prize.
- Human Rights Watch is calling for action against Azerbaijan’s “appalling record on freedom of expression.”
- Reporters Sans Frontières reminds us that one journalist is killed every five days (see photo above). This day can be a celebration of freedoms but it’s also a time to consider how much there is to condemn and fight against.
- Here’s RSF’s 2012 Press Freedom Index. And, I encourage you to read through basically everything RSF has posted about journalists under threat.
- The Journalists Freedoms Observatory is noting the deterioration of press freedom in Iraq.
- From Amnesty International: reports on journalists and bloggers under threat in Sudan, Iran and Cuba.
- The International Federation of Journalists has a recently released report on the state of press freedoms in South Asia.
- UNESCO released a report in late March titled “The Safety of Journalists and the Danger of Impunity.”
- There is much cause to examine Pakistan’s press freedom problems. A report has apparently been released by the Pakistan Press Foundation, but I can’t yet find a copy. Be on the look out.
- Freedom House’s 2012 Freedom of the Press survey has an unfortunate stat: only 14.5% of the world’s population live in a country with a free press. There is good news, though. Egypt, Libya and Tunisia have all shown marked improvements with the overthrows of Mubarak, Gaddhafi and Ben Ali.
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5 All-time Great Articles, by Jared B. Keller
tetw:
Jared B. Keller is an associate editor at The Atlantic, and one of the keepers of The Atlantic’s Tumblr. We asked him to choose the 5 articles he finds himself recommending over and over again, and here they are:
Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Diamond by Edward Jay Epstein (The Atlantic, 1982) - ”An unruly market may undo the work of a giant cartel and of an inspired, decades-long ad campaign.” This is one of my favorite Atlantic articles of all time. Edward Jay Epstein traces the myth of the rare diamond through the history of De Beers and one of the greatest marketing campaigns ever.
The Behavioral Sink by Will Wiles (Cabinet, 2011) - ”How do you design a utopia?” Will Wiles details John B. Calhoun’s 1972 development of his Mortality-Inhibiting Environment for Mice: a practical utopia built in the laboratory. In the experiment that would inspire “The Rats of NIHM,” Calhoun followed the grisly, Malthusain rise and fall of the Heaven he built for mice.
Happiness is a Worn Gun by Dan Baum (Harper’s, August 2010) - Many knee-jerk opponents of gun rights have never handled a gun before, so what happens when one liberal wears a concealed weapon? This Harper’s article is is a classic read about Baum’s psychological transformation as a concealed gun owner.
A Matter of Optics by Warren Breckman (Lapham’s Quarterly, “The City,” Fall 2010) - Cities, like schools, prisons, or barracks, are institutions of power and representation. “Rulers of cities have always had an interest in visibility, both in representing their power and in controlling people by seeing them”
As We May Think by Vannevar Bush (The Atlantic, 1945) - “In this classic paper by Dr. Bush calls for a new relationship between thinking man and the sum of our knowledge. He urges that men of science should then turn to the massive task of making more accessible our bewildering store of knowledge.”
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A history of the terrible rag known as The Daily Mail, Great Britain’s ”most powerful newspaper.” Founded in 1896 as reading material “by office-boys for office-boys,” its print edition reaches four and a half million people per day, and its website recently surpassed the New York Times in traffic.
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"Re: “Hit repeat, ignore” (Metro Times, May 24), the scathing Luke Allen Hackney story on the Detroit Music Awards: Why so bitter? I’m left wondering why the editorial staff would give the assignment to somebody who was so obviously blatant in their disregard for the event."
Letter to the editor, Metro Times, 2006.
How Newspapers are Faring Trying to Build Digital Revenue
A new report from the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism finds that overall, media companies are struggling to build digital revenue, though some individual newspapers are faring better than others.
The report cites “cultural inertia” as a major factor, noting, “Most papers are not putting significant effort into the new digital revenue categories that, while small now, are expected to provide most the growth in the future.”
The report was conducted over 16 months, and analyzed 38 newspapers at 6 different media companies.
Read more: The Search for a New Business Model | Project for Excellence in Journalism
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Guardian advert imagines modern media coverage of the Three Little Pigs.
(video via benppollack)
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NPR releases new ethics handbook
From the introduction:
“Journalism is a daily process of painting an ever truer picture of the world. Every step of this process - from reporting to editing to presenting information - may either strengthen or erode the public’s trust in us. We work hard to be worthy of that trust and to protect it.”
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An archival photo from The New York Times shows news pictures being sorted in the newspaper’s photo “morgue,” which houses millions of images. Here they are — several each week — for you to see. Welcome to The Lively Morgue.
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