Fostering Interrnational Media Engagement | Editorials | Editorial

Fostering Interrnational Media Engagement | Editorials | Editorial: "It is the mission of the United States Department of State to advance freedom for the benefit of the American people and the international community by helping to build and sustain a more democratic, secure, and prosperous world. To achieve this, it is essential that the government foster an environment in which freedom of the press can flourish. "

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How Tumblr is Changing Journalism

How Tumblr is Changing Journalism: "Earlier this week we looked at the remarkable growth of Tumblr, a blogging and curation service that now gets over 12 billion page views per month. Tumblr is mostly used as a consumer curation tool - it's an easy way for people to re-post articles, images and videos. But Tumblr can also be used to power a news website. That's exactly what ShortFormBlog does."

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Is social networking building Internet’s caste system? | Firstpost

Is social networking building Internet’s caste system? | Firstpost: "Ah! To be an internet user in the 90s. When modern browsers introduced us to webpages and hyperlinks. Click, click click and you were away, connecting random things. Girlie pictures, right click to download. Football scores I know the address. Email, done in minutes.

No pressure really. If you could log on, you could be online. No one knew who you were, and really no one cared.

How could the net just meander along like this, asked the Internet gods? Soon people will get bored. Let’s throw in some complexity, they said."

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Mmegi Online :: CNN writer calls for media diversity

Mmegi Online :: CNN writer calls for media diversity: ""If you had at least three national television broadcasters, then there will be a variety of media views and people will have a choice. When there is just Botswana Television (Btv), people tend to become suspicious about it and what the station is broadcasting," said David Gurien, a CNN senior writer."

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