On 27 August, a British journalist and a cameraman working for Vice News, a news channel that broadcasts in-depth documentaries about current subjects, and their fixer were detained in Turkey while reporting in Diyarbakir, the main city of the country’s predominantly Kurdish southeastern region. At the beginning of September, the three men were charged by a Turkish judge in Diyarbakir with “deliberately aiding an armed organisation”. The basis for the charge was that the fixer used a complex encryption system on his personal computer that many Islamic State militants allegedly also use for strategic communications.
Across all of its platforms, in both digital and broadcast, the NBCUniversal News Group — NBC News, MSNBC, and CNBC — employs thousands of journalists and publishes hundreds of stories each day.
Facebook isn’t finished with its attempts to move journalists away from their reliance on Twitter. On Thursday, the company launched Signal, a free discovery and curation platform that helps journalists see what’s trending in photos, videos, and (public) posts across Facebook and Instagram.
The New York Times is diving into the world of chat apps with a new bilingual WeChat account. The Times will send out a daily digest of news in English and Chinese targeted at WeChat’s millions of users around the world.
Political journalists have failed to predict all of the major events of the last year. They need to start asking themselves serious questions.
Under my law of leadership elections – that the freshest and/or youngest contender usually wins – you should bet on Liz Kendall
— Michael Crick (@MichaelLCrick) May 28, 2015
Related posts:
- Journalism roundup: “How to be literate in what’s changing journalism..Russia’s new global news agency: Sputnik
- Turkish government continues to pursue to block internet access without legal order… Dispatches from Turkey…
- Journalism roundup: “Jeff Jarvis: Free speech is not a privilege. It is a journalistic responsibility”
- INFOGRAPHIC: “How Are Journalists Using Social Media?” and a Journalism roundup:
- Anthropology roundup: “2015 AAA Leadership Fellows Program…”The plight of the Assyrians…
Vía Erkan’s Field Diary http://ift.tt/1KwhMyN
Filed under: Uncategorized
No comments:
Post a Comment