Data expert moves on from 'telephone journalism' | News | guardian.co.uk: "'In the end we'll no more talk about data journalism than we talk now
about telephone journalism' says Francis Irving. The computer programmer and freedom of information activist best known for his involvement in TheyWorkforYou.com is busy working out how that shift will happen."
Saturday, March 19, 2011
USC Pop Culture Expert is Scripps Howard ‘Journalism Teacher of the Year’ - FishbowlLA
USC Pop Culture Expert is Scripps Howard ‘Journalism Teacher of the Year’ - FishbowlLA: "First off, just how much fun does a university project named “The Image of the Journalist in Pop Culture” sound?
The massive database at USC’s Norman Lear Center, launched in 2000, now encompasses more than 76,000 records. The goal is to “investigate and analyze the conflicting images of the journalist in film, television, radio, fiction, commercials, cartoons, comic books, music, art, demonstrating their impact on the American public’s perception of newsgatherers.” And the man who oversees the program, Joe Saltzman (pictured), has just been voted 2010′s Journalism and Mass Communication Teacher of the Year by the Scripps Howard Foundation.
Saltzman edged out two other category finalists – the Unive"
The massive database at USC’s Norman Lear Center, launched in 2000, now encompasses more than 76,000 records. The goal is to “investigate and analyze the conflicting images of the journalist in film, television, radio, fiction, commercials, cartoons, comic books, music, art, demonstrating their impact on the American public’s perception of newsgatherers.” And the man who oversees the program, Joe Saltzman (pictured), has just been voted 2010′s Journalism and Mass Communication Teacher of the Year by the Scripps Howard Foundation.
Saltzman edged out two other category finalists – the Unive"
Investigative journalism and the people’s right to know : Editorial : Home
[Editorial] Investigative journalism and the people’s right to know : Editorial : Home: "A few days ago, the Supreme Court confirmed a guilty ruling against former and current journalists prosecuted for reporting on the “Agency for National Security Planning X-file.” This file contained transcripts of a conversation that took place before the 1997 presidential election between then-Samsung Group secretarial office head Lee Hak-soo and JoongAng Ilbo Chairman Hong Seok-hyun discussing the delivery of money to a particular candidate and around ten prosecution offices. A major controversy erupted in 2005 when it was reported in the press that the ANSP (current National Intelligence Service) recorded this content illegally, but the people who actually plotting government-business collusion and the buying off of prosecutors, as well as the prosecutors who received the “gifts,” had no charges pressed against them. It is the height of absurdity that it was the journalists who divulged this information who were found guilty of violating the Telecommunications Security Protection Act."
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Monday, March 14, 2011
Twitter, a five-year-old changing the world - Yahoo! News
At five years old, Twitter is just starting to change the world.
Co-founder Jack Dorsey fired off the first tweet on March 21, 2006. It read "just setting up my twttr." It was Dorsey who proposed the idea for Twitter while working with Biz Stone and Evan Williams at podcasting company Odeo.
Since then, Twitter has been embraced as a forum for sharing anything from a favorite lunch spot to violations of civil rights and calls for revolution.
"As much fun as we were having, there was always, I think, in the back of our heads the idea of the potential of something important coming from it," Stone said of the startup's formative days.
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