Jason Brown
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An update for our few fellow travellers!
It is with great pleasure that I report a long overdue successful grappling with the differences between Facebook:
...
1. Profiles
2. Groups
3. Pages
Thus:
1. Profiles = personal ..... max. limit = 5,000
2. Groups = community .. max limit = 50,000 ?
3. Pages = global ........... max. limit = open
More soon, and thanks,
jas
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Jason Brown
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Moving pictures! On paper! The crisis is over!
Or is it?
...
Still need journalists - rapidly disappearing - to write the news, no matter what the medium.
. . .
The
breakthrough discovery has far-reaching implications considering other
popular e-readers all rely on complex circuitry printed over rigid
glass.
.
. .UPDATE 'The supposed crisis is far from universal and the outcomes
of current transformations far from certain.' See: Crisis? What crisis?
Study of the future of the international news industry In particular:The
book '
source:JICC
link:Full Article...
Jason Brown
. . .
The death of the newspaper - foretold
. . .
Launch of Newspaper Extinction Timeline for every country in the world - Trends in the Living Networ
rossdawsonblog.com
Back
in August I predicted that newspapers in their current form will be
irrelevant in Australia in 2022. That received significant international
attention including from The Australian, The Guardian, Editor &
Publisher (which called me the 'Wizard of Aussie') and...
Jason Brown
. . .
Journalists
have long resisted attempts towards greater codification and
registration as means by which various powers-that-be exert influence.
Now,
however, an argument emerges that influence is being exerted anyway -
precisely because of a lack of unifying codes of ethics and some form of
registration - in the sa...me way doctors and lawyers work.
Certainly
it seems that citizen journalists AKA bloggers and other netizens now
have the numbers, power and access to point out mainstream shortcomings.
So maybe those pre-net journalistic misgivings can be re-examined?
. . .
Howard Hudson, editor of the European Journalism Centre
Raphael Wanjaria Njararuhi The issue of gender disparities within African media is not new.
A Development Information Portal for NGOs in South Africa.
Jason Brown Another look back: Apparently journalists are being sacked because of their own stupidity. Also, apparently, there is no drop in journalism numbers in the US.
Warning:
I'm going to violate all the canons of journalism by putting my
conclusions at the end. In my first post on the journalism job market, I
broke down journalistic employment by industry. In response, Jeff
Jarvis quite correctly wondered...
http://blog.wcgworld.com/2010/09/how-75-clinical-studies-a-day-is-disrupting-journalism-and-pr
. . .JOURNALISM CRISIS | NEWS COMMENTThis piece paints an element of
the journalism crisis as the sheer volume of medical surveys - an
average of 75 a day. "Information overload" is des
source:JICC
link:Full Article...
Jason Brown What are you doing for R2K ?
groups.comminit.com
Here at JICC, we are celebrating R2K by sending some tough questions to our colleagues representing journalists worldwide.
Jason Brown Outside of the crisis, strictly speaking, but still interesting - is copyright crippling innovation?
No Copyright Law: The Real Reason for Germany's Industrial Expansion? - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - Inte
Did
Germany experience rapid industrial expansion in the 19th century due
to an absence of copyright law? A German historian argues that the
massive proliferation of books, and thus knowledge, laid the foundation
for the country's industrial might.
Jason Brown Everyone wants the truth, but no one wants to pay for it.
Wanna
save journalism? Reverse all the damage done a few years back when all
the FTC restrictions on media ownership were raped and gutted. Shut down
the liars at Fox, CNN, and their ilk.
Jason Brown UK: up to one third of journalists lost their job over the last 10 years.
#jpod: What our new industry report means for job-seeking graduates | Journalism.co.uk Editors' Blog
blogs.journalism.co.uk
Journalism.co.uk
has compiled a podcast offering advice for journalism graduates
entering the industry, in light of a report carried out by
Journalism.co.uk and
Raphael Wanjaria Njararuhi Journalists killed in Uganda.
News From Africa - Friday 17 September 2010 - Two journalists killed in unclear circumstances
Jason Brown Follow the money ...
en.wikipedia.org
Cui
bono ("To whose benefit?", literally "as a benefit to whom?", a double
dative construction) is a Latin adage that is used either to suggest a
hidden motive or to indicate that the party responsible for something
may not be who it appears at first to be.
Jason Brown
No friend of
the media ... one of the most remote daily papers in the world has
suffered a loss of half its journalists over the last 10 years ... now
the government is withdrawing all advertising.
The right-wing National Party administration is also slashing spending on public broadcasting, already near the bottom of... the OECD. By comparison, next door, Australia recently voted a "record funding boost" for the state broadcaster.
Jason Brown More from Sarkoland : the leading daily challenges government on its pursuit of confidential sources - excellent work Le Monde!
Le Monde to take legal action as it accuses Sarkozy government of illegal probe into journalistic so
Listed
below are links to blogs that reference this entry: Le Monde to take
legal action as it accuses Sarkozy government of illegal probe into
journalistic sources.
Jason Brown
Report author
Aldo Cardoso is former CEO of Anderson International, better known as
the auditors who signed off on Enron, a spectacular US$14 billion
implosion - so of course we should listen to what he says !
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldo_Cardos
Listed below are links to blogs that reference this entry: French government report calls for cuts in state aid to the press .
Jason Brown This proposal comes after the FreePress call for a technology tax in the US to fund public media.
The
main journalist trade union in Europe and the UK wants citizens to be
given 'European Democracy Vouchers', funded by internet service
providers, which can be used to buy newspapers and pay for online media
subscriptions.
Raphael Wanjaria Njararuhi African journalist express their grave concern.
Accra,
Sept. 5, GNA - Representatives of Journalists Unions and Associations
in Africa has expressed grave concern on the escalation of acts of
violence against journalists. This was contained in a resolution at the
end of a two-day workshop at the African Union (AU) headquarters in
Addis Ababa, Eth...
Raphael Wanjaria Njararuhi Silencing WikiLeaks is killing investigative journalism?
english.aljazeera.net
Wikileaks plans to release more classified documents despite Pentagon's call to stop.
Raphael Wanjaria Njararuhi The new Kenyan constitution and the plight of journalism.
"A healthy media environment is one where the resources are widely shared, enabling more outlets to operate successfully"
Jason Brown Disaster mode: 174 years ago, an American leader describes the global condition.
pressinamerica.blogspot.com
A
popular government without popular information, or the means of
acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps
both. -- James Madison
Jason Brown
Interesting quote from a Word file by Christopher Hickman at Brooklyn Law School:
"The
journalism crisis is three-fold: first, a decreased quality in the
news and significant job losses in newsrooms have resulted from a
commercial media model that has favored profit imperatives over costly
investigative reporting and t...ime-consuming beat reporting;
"Second,
the decline in print circulation, migration of classified ads to the
Internet, and dearth of retail ads in a time of economic depression have
caused a steep drop in revenues;
"And third, the media industry
is suffering self-inflicted wounds from bad business decisions and
failed strategies. While the market does not respond enthusiastically to
accountability journalism, it has positive externalities, whereby
societal benefits arise from changes in public policy that result from
its impact.
"The benefit of an informed populace, the ability
of citizens to “monitor those in power,” should be of paramount concern,
for, as James Madison once warned, “A people who mean to be their own
governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”
This
“call to arms” cannot be reflected in the bottom line; perhaps it is
too late in the day for the traditional media model to make room for
thoroughgoing investigative journalism in its budget. However, this
creates new room in the media marketplace for a variety of “independent,
non-commercial initiatives specifically designed to produce high
quality, public service journalism.”
"Thus, a news organization is a good candidate for operation as a hybrid social enterprise concern."
The document makes for a worthwhile read.
works.bepress.com
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Jason Brown CANADA: less than 0.5% of aid goes to media development ... so much for the 4th estate!
jhr (Journalists for Human Rights) works with the media worldwide to ensure every human is aware of their rights.
Jason Brown Reorganisation = restructuring = job losses = journalists sacked
Like
USA Today last week, The Deseret News in Salt Lake City, Utah, Tuesday
unveiled a sweeping newsroom reorganization combined with layoffs. In
its case, the Mormon Church-owned daily is reducing its workforce by
43%, shedding 57 full-time and 28 part-time employees.
Jason Brown Not particularly about the financial background to the journalism crisis, per se, as a popularisation of perceived shortcomings.
The
acclaimed HBO television drama The Wire (2002-2008) is both
journalistic and about journalism. It was created by a former
journalist, David ...
Jason Brown At last ! Comments from Pacific Islands media on their oft neglected and long lost Melanesian colleagues in Papua - and even less well known - Maluku.
Jason Brown Looking Back: Watergate is considered one of the best known moments of journalism - but was it really all that?
Mark
Felt died last week at the age of 95. For those who don’t recognize
that name, Felt was the “Deep Throat” of Watergate fame. It was Felt who
provided Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein of The Washington Post with a
flow of leaks about what had happened, how it happened and where to look
for furthe...
Jason Brown Wow, that's some stuffed up formatting! A for the record post to link to a report on last year's journalism crisis conference at Coventry University, UK.
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See moreJason Brown Importing blog feed using NetworkedBlogs
http://www.journalismincrisiscoalition.blogspot.com/
Jason Brown "International Press Institute 60th Anniversary World Congress: Thinking the Unthinkable – Are We Losing the News?" - congrats to IPI for having the courage to face up to the fact that journalism is in crisis, worldwide.
Jason Brown That's 12 years away ...
Newspapers
have 12 years or less left to live in print, the Newspaper Publishers
Association will be told later this week. Ahead of Thursday night's
Jason Brown
. . .
What the Ad Whores want us to think Department:
An
antipodean ad rag mealy-mouths its way around Ad Slut Speak like the
headline "Designing trust" and "Consumer rules", subheaded ...
"compelling, believable brands reach out and shake hands with consumers
..."
...
What the Ad Whores really think Division:
"Idle
Chat: The Closure of The Independent [NZ] by Fairfax sparked a
firestorm of debate about the value of corporate media. Borrrring."
Quote
from page 9, July-August 2010 edition of New Zealand Marketing, drawing
from a site called "Stop Press". Don't bother Googling the quote.
Despite the bold sneer, it's nowhere to be found online.
LINK:
Gutless Ad Ho industry magazine
. . .
StopPress :: Breaking news from New Zealand Marketing magazine
Jason Brown
...
Sad
State of News: An investigative journalism blog not updated since -
gulp - 2005. Own Worse Enemy Files: Comments not enabled. No Social
Networking or RSS feeds. Oh, and an update on aid corruption, but under a
subscription only partner site - nice. A case for Project Censored ?
...
Jason Brown Do something: sign the petition against cuts to the BBC. Aunty ain't perfect, but she's one of the few bastions we got left that still feels right.
The
BBC is considering sweeping cuts, chopping its website in half and
dropping TV and radio stations... all to appease corporate media rivals.
Sign the petition to keep the BBC strong!
Jason Brown While JICC has a worldwide focus it is based in New Zealand ... which continues to suffer a loss of print outlets, especially newspapers, as any other country. The Independent is the latest about to bite the dust.
Independent draws last breath, Fairfax looks on the bright side :: StopPress :: Breaking news from N
Independent
draws last breath, Fairfax looks on the bright side :: StopPress ::
Breaking news from New Zealand Marketing magazine
Jason Brown
An excellent
story from the NYO - clearly showing the rapidly failing capacity of any
media to offend those rich and powerful enough to afford law suits.
At
the comments, some twit suggests the reason is that "no one" reads old
media anymore. Ignorant, given that the Pew Institute estimates 85% of
new media links back t...o old media.
When
Robin Bierstedt joined the Time Inc. legal department in 1983, there
were 20 active libel cases pending against the company. In her 27-year
career, she has taken on dozens of spurned public figures, officials and
organizations (hello, Church of Scientology!), all of whom had a
serious legal bee...
Jason Brown No bail-outs. No reinvention of journalism. Not even a tax necessarily. What the US government needs to do, according to a First Amendment protection group is to look at the power - influence - of huge aggregators like Google News.
Media Institute: Government Should Look to Google in Journalism Inquiry - 2010-06-08 14:00:00 | Broa
Paper for First Amendment group argues that search giant's power as aggregator is key--and cause for concern.
Jason Brown
Never thought I'd say this but something worthwhile from a Fox News commentator:
Adam
Lashinsky: "They" in this instance is not the lawmakers; it's the
Federal Communications Commission, and its staff. This is a trial
balloon since they've recognized there's a crisis in journalism. Having
said that, we don't have a trad...ition
in this country of the government supporting journalism. What is going
to happen is nonprofits are going to support serious journalism which
doesn't hold the business model that it used to have. The idea behind it
is the realization that journalism is good for democracy, that there's a
crisis in journalism.
Stunned silence follows from fellow "commentators" on the Cost of Freedom. Fair AND balanced - whatever next!
The Cost of Freedom Recap: Recap of Saturday, June 5, Miss a minute of this week's block? Here's your chance to catch up!
Jason Brown Comments from French newspaper about how the Financial Times reports rumours, causes the loss of billions then fails to follow up.
bruxelles.blogs.liberation.fr
Le
biais anti-euro d’une grande partie des médias anglo-saxons est
difficilement contestable. À Londres, où j’ai passé deux jours pour
rencontrer des opérateurs de marché, il est étourdissant de constater
que la fin de l’euro est une réalité incontestable, seule...
Jason Brown
Why the journalism crisis has got nothing to do with the internet:
"The
layoffs of journalists, the closing of [news] bureaus, the declining
quality of journalism all predate Google, even the World Wide Web. They
go back to the 70s. Fundamentally, it can be attributed to increasing
conglomerate corporate chain ownership...
and non-competitive markets, which made it very profitable to gut
newsrooms and make more money by lowering your costs and gut any
consequences in the marketplace."
inthesetimes.com
In
These Times features award-winning investigative reporting about
corporate malfeasance and government wrongdoing, insightful analysis of
national and international affairs, and sharp cultural criticism about
events and ideas that matter.
Jason Brown Cost cutting even when it comes to nuclear disarmament.
Press
flights have been sharply curtailed in recent months, a victim of
cost-cutting by news organizations that are struggling to stay
profitable.
Jason Brown Looking back: commentary from March 2009 raises issues even more pertinent today
Online edition of journal of politics and culture, with selected articles from print magazine.
Jason Brown
"About 80 percentof the American public believes that taxpayer investment in public broadcasting is money “well spent.”
New Public Media: A Plan for Action (PDF link)
Jason Brown Canada: judges express their hostility to the press - again - just how weak do they want the 4th estate?
Canada’s highest court slams door on effort by media to broaden its rights to protect confidential sources
Jason Brown
So donations are the "future of news".
Not.
"According
to Chuck Lewis, the founder of the Center for Public Integrity in the
USA, all the foundation grants in 2008 gave around $20m for non-profits
to undertake investigations. That is about one tenth of the annual
newsroom budget of the New York Times."
...
One tenth!
Meanwhile,
the banks and car makers wallow in bail out money, paying themselves
fat bonuses, etc. Public funders must wake up to the fact that an
inter-generational failure of journalism - the crisis bit of JICC, here -
costs trillions, not millions or billions.
newmodeljournalism.com
MPs
on the Culture, Media and Sport Committee – a cross-party group now
disbanded following the dissolution of parliament – have called for new
measures to revive local journalism.
Jason Brown
Happy happy
happy! Joy joy joy! The BBC is investigating "new revenue models" for
journalism. Phew. We can all rest easy. The crisis in journalism is
over.
Thank goodness we still think in strictly corporate terms
when talking about our collective failure to prevent trillions being
wiped off global markets. Yes, fellow...
travellers, what we all need is a good dose of market reality. Sorry,
"free" market reality. Real, um, insight, there, to be sure, many
reasons to be cheerful, mutter, mumble, stiff upper lip, *sound of
bottle uncorking*, glug glug glug
The
latest edition of BBC Radio 4’s ‘In Business’ brought some real insight
into how the top guns in the media are thinking about new revenue
models – and some reasons to be cheerful for those working at every
level of journalism.
Jason Brown Microphones and radio build peace, but men with guns are so much better funded.
For
almost two decades now, UN peacekeeping missions have routinely set up
radio stations that by default, not design, became the countries'
dominant national broadcasters. And then, when the missions ended, the
stations would close.
Jason Brown Did a journalism crisis cause world economic meltdown? Take the poll:
groups.comminit.com
Jason Brown How truth dies ... and the money for "training" and other media frippery just keeps on flowing and flowing and flowing
The
need for honest, brave journalism is huge and far overshadows the many
millions of dollars of well-meaning aid and support for democracy and
civil society that usually comes from foreign donors.
Jason Brown Future of news deathwatch: journalism outlets keep hitting the wall.
Murdered
by the Internet or done in by its own hand? The Post puts the venerable
weekly magazine up for sale. Articles about Media Criticism
Jason Brown Nearly $200,000 in prizes for human rights reporting - go team!
Jason Brown
. . . So an institute funded by big business including tobacco, cars and oil thinks there is no journalism crisis.
Perhaps
someone might alert CEI to the global economic crisis, direct product
of systemic journalism failure to independently monitor supposedly free
markets. Cost? Trillions and counting.
By watchdogging ...Ford
and the like over where their payback funds are coming from, CEI risks
appearing as overly concerned about the molehill and not the mountain.
Those
less doubtful can take concrete action by signing a petition that asks
the United Nations to declare world journalism in crisis, here:
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/jicc/ . . .
Increasingly,
somegroups contend there's a crisis in journalism, even to the extent
of advocating government support of news organizations. The dangers to
freedom inherent in the concept of government-funded ideas and the
impact on critique and dissent seem not to bother them.
Jason Brown World Press Freedom Day is just 4 days away - how many signatures can we collect in 96 hours?
JICC,
the Journalism in Crisis Coalition founding in January 2010 aims at
action responses to huge job loss among news room workers.
Jason Brown
This:
"...journalism is currently for the most part a for-profit industry is
prima facie bananas and in the not-to-distant future will be looked back
at with bewilderment."
Short but sweet, the rest of the comment is well worth a read.
stanleyjewbrick.blogspot.com
Jason Brown
The European
Federation of Journalists is launching a fight back by journalists'
unions over attacks on labour rights and standards of journalism in
media across the continent.
More from EFJ General Meeting in Istanbul on April 16-18th 2010:
Jason Brown "IFJ condemns 'Fat Cat' millions for New York Times bosses as staff pay for crisis in jobs and pay"
Jason Brown
"The Poynter
Institute estimated that the drop in reporting capacity was US$1.6
billion. They estimated that to help fill that gap, foundations – a
major source of founding for local news start-ups -- have put in about
$140 million during that period. $1.6 billion out. $140 million in."
- Steven Waldman, Senior Advis...or to the Chairman, Federal Communications Commission.
reboot.fcc.gov
Jason Brown ProPublica won a Pulitzer prize for investigative journalism ... The Franklin Centre examines behind the headlines for reasons why.
Jason Brown "IF ... every crisis is an opportunity, then who is making an opportunity out of journalism's current crisis?"
digg.com
No
matter how much Pulitzer Prize triumphalism hides it, the fact remains
that journalism these days is "a disaster," as Ted Koppel said recently.
Here are 2 critical questions: 1) If every crisis is an ...
Jason Brown
"This World
Press Freedom Day, whose theme is Freedom of Information, offers us an
occasion to remember the importance of our right to know."
Message
from UNESCO Director-GeneralMessage from Ms Irina Bokova,
Director-General of UNESCO, on the occasion of World Press Freedom Day,
3rd May 2010.
portal.unesco.org
Jason Brown Must remember: use a separate browser to sign in with journalism in crisis coalition email, enabling posts to JICC, not personal profile.
Jason Brown
. . .
State television board rejects Sarkozy edict
Board
members of state television in France have majority voted against an
edict from President Nicolas Sarkozy to ban on air ads.
...
Meeting
13th April local date, the board voted 10 to 5 to "suspend" Sarkozy
moves to limit advertising to private sector stations.
Government officials had asked for an extension to 30th October to continue negotiations over the advertising ban.
The 'no' vote came despite Sarkozy hand-picking replacements for the former chair of the board and other members.
Criticised
as political interference in an independent state authority, a media
watchdog in France, MediaPart, said the Sarkozy ban led to open crisis
in relations between state television and the presidency.
The
unexpected reversal at board level shows how deep that crisis now goes,
following a dismal showing by the Sarkozy party at recent municipal
elections.
Earlier French state television journalists criticised
the ban as favouring some of Sarkozy's friends and political supporters
who, among other things like arms factories, own holdings in media like
private TV, radio and print media.
Journalists also said the loss of millions in advertising revenue would cut into their ability to deliver independent news.
Insiders
said another side effect would be a loss of influence on public debate,
away from ethically independent journalism, towards commercial
conflicts of interest in private sector media.
. . .
. . .
La
privatisation de la régie publicitaire de France Télévisions a été
suspendue par le conseil d'administration du groupe public, qui s'est
tenu mardi 13 avril dans la matinée. Le vote a été acquis par 10 voix
contre 5. ...
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