Saving the News with Advocacy Journalism: ten minutes with the Nieman Foundation. Posted by Ethan on Sep 28th, 2013 in Media, Media Lab | 0 comments It’s the 75th anniversary of the Nieman Foundation, and the Harvard-based program is bringing back generations of its fellows, mid-career journalists brought to Cambridge to study for a year, back to honor and celebrate the institution.
One of the events on the program is the “Ninety Minute Nieman”, where organizers have invited a set of Cambridge-based professors to offer a taste of what happens in their classes in 10 minutes each. (7 professors, 10 minute lectures + the inevitable shuffling of papers = a 90 minute Nieman.) I’m lucky enough to be one of those presenters.
My friends at Nieman encouraged me to be provocative, as that’s the role I seem to have every year when I come and talk to new Nieman fellows. So why fight it? I teach a class at MIT’s Media Lab called “News and Participatory Media” that’s become popular with Nieman scholars. This is a place where the news can help. Dorothée Danedjo Fouba sur le journalisme numérique en Afrique. Propos recueillis par Dibussi Tande (@dibussi) Dorothee Danedjo, à la remise du Best ICT Blog 2013 Award – photo avec la permission de l'auteur Dibussi Tande: Félicitations d’avoir remportée le « Best African ICT Blog, Telkom-Highway Africa New Media Awards 2013. » Que-ce que cela représente pour vous ?
Dorothée Danedjo Fouba : Ce prix représente pour moi une grande reconnaissance pour mon travail journalistique, particulièrement en journalisme multimédia, pourquoi pas une consécration du travail bien fait.Votre blog a été primé deux fois de suite par Highway Africa. Qu’est-ce qui fait la particularité dorotheedanedjo.com ? Mon blog est orienté vers web et nouvelles technologies pour les journalistes et communicateurs.
Dorothee Danedjo à la remise du Best ICT Blog 2012 Runner-up Award- avec permission de l'auteur Selon vous, qu’est-ce qui explique le manque criard des blogs camerounais et même africains qui focalisent sur les TIC ? Sustainable Business Models for Journalism · Sumojour Report: Table of Contents. Empowering environmental journalism worldwide.
Photography. Awards. From left: CPJ awardee Paul Steiger, CPJ Executive Director Joel Simon, CPJ awardees Bassem Youssef, Janet Hinostroza, and Nedim Şener, and CPJ chairman Sandra Mims Rowe.
(Getty Images/Michael Nagle) Four journalists from Ecuador, Egypt, Turkey, and Vietnam were honored on November 26, 2013, at the Committee to Protect Journalists' 23rd annual International Press Freedom Awards for their work in defiance of repression and censorship. Arianna Huffington, founder of the Huffington Post, presented the award to Janet Hinostroza, a leading television reporter and host in her native Ecuador, for her continued investigative work, despite threats to her and her family.
Egyptian satirist Bassem Youssef received his award from Jon Stewart for his political humor program, which has maintained an independent, critical posture despite harsh criticism, legal action, and suspension. The awards dinner was chaired by Daniel L. FridayTalk. Sustaining Democracy in the Digital Age. Global Dashboard » Africa Climate and resource scarcity » No sec. Just a quickie on the Madagascar coup from a Royal Africa Society talk I attended on Tuesday.
According to Volatiana Rahaga, who is president of the Association of Malagasy Residents in the UK (all 100 of them), news of South Korea’s deal to buy up a large chunk of Madagascar’s arable land may never have filtered through to the public had it not been for a pesky FT journalist. The FT’s Javier Blas reported on the deal when the negotiations had almost finished. Until then, nobody in Madagascar knew anything about it. When members of Ms Rahaga’s group read Blas’s article, they e-mailed the news to colleagues in France (which has a much larger Malagasy diaspora). The latter then told their friends and relatives back home about it, and the brown stuff promptly hit the fan. As an environmental consultant based in Antananarivo told me, this failure to communicate the deal doomed it, and public anger about the sell-off was partly responsible for the coup that deposed Ravalomanana this spring.