Saturday, October 29, 2016
As “Government control over Turkish media almost complete”, public and private are assisting an internet shutdown in Diyarbakır…
Penguins became the symbol of the government’s grip on the media in Turkey in 2013, when during the Gezi protests many news channels aired documentaries, one of them on CNN Türk about penguins. Since then the main media have become even more
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Companies behind the shutdown:
A second full internet shutdown has cut off 6 million citizens in Turkey’s Southeast regions according to network reachability analysis, following yesterday’s incident that shut off much of the country. The blocks, coming amidst protests against…
Turkey ‘s government on Thursday cut mobile and landline internet access in 11 cities in the southeast area of the country for the second day in a row. The decision came after locals took the streets in protest over Diyarbakır’s co-mayors
Author: Amberin Zaman October 27, 2016 Turkey’s Kurds protested the detentions of the co-mayors of Diyarbakir, the country’s largest Kurdish-majority city, for a second day, even as a government-imposed internet outage across the mainly Kurdish
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- For the record, despite his “insulting poetry” Boris Johnson had a good time in Turkey.
- Thank you @fcstpauli_EN for Solidarity with Naki, a “footballer faces up to five years for ‘PKK propaganda’ on Twitter”
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Eurosphere agenda: An Interview with Birgitta Jónsdóttir, Iceland’s Pirate party figurehead…
“It’s not only about us versus the system. The system is really us.” As Iceland’s radical Pirate party approaches the gates of power, we speak to its figurehead Birgitta Jónsdóttir.
The Conservative justice minister filibustered a bill to pardon the thousands of men convicted under legislation that criminalised homosexuality. This act lays bear the discrimination still faced by LGBT people in this country.
Frassoni: Italians believe the EU abandoned them to the migration crisis
Is Brexit bad for UK universities? This appears to be the question at the centre of an article from the Times Higher Education titled “UK researchers face uncertainty over EU grant applications” (David Matthews, June 29, 2016), which was approvingly reprinted in the Bulletin of the Canadian Association of University Teachers (Vol. 63, No. 7, September, 2016, p. 7). It’s peculiar that CAUT would republish this piece, which is not based on facts as much as fear, since CAUT has taken a fairly consistent, hard line in its criticisms of the impact of neoliberalism on higher education. Is it that CAUT’s writers only have a problem with neoliberalism when it adversely affects established traditions in post-secondary education in Canada, but otherwise have no problem with neoliberalism as such? That might explain the odd dualism.
In the Western Balkans, even the most fundamental and comparatively minute probing into the workings of government can provoke an aggressive response from the very top, as Milka Tadić-Mijović found out.
“No, no, I only won the libel case in Serbia. It’ll be a long time before I win in Montenegro,” Milka Tadić-Mijović tells me with a subtle scoff at the speed at which legal processes unfold in the Balkans.
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- Dirty deal on refugees between Turkey and EU starts. Greece starts deporting refugees…
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Today is the 93rd anniversary of the Turkish republic…
Author: Amberin Zaman March 23, 2015 Gultan Kisanak is the first female mayor of the southeastern city of Diyarbakir, which is widely seen as the unofficial capital of Turkey’s Kurds. Kisanak is among thousands of political activists who served…
Author: Pinar Tremblay October 26, 2016 In the early 2000s when I started studying Yemen, no one in Turkey seemed to care about the country. Yet by 2010-11, Yemen was a hot topic. Neo-Ottomans loved Yemen, they sang songs about Yemen
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New photo from Facebook October 29, 2016 at 03:44PM
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Thursday, October 29, 2015
Journalism agenda: “Why does Google want to pay for digital news experiments in Europe?
Lately Google is spending a lot of time — and money — trying to convince journalists it wants to be friends.
In recent months, they’ve introduced Accelerated Mobile Pages, the recently launched Google News Lab, and team-ups with companies like The New York Times on virtual reality projects using Google Cardboard. (Not to mention theGoogle Journalism Fellows, one of whom is hosted here at Nieman Lab each summer.)
In McSweeney’s, Vijith Assar writes about the increasingly pernicious use of the passive voice in the media and how it may have developed, one small step at a time, from:
Vice’s digital media sites are going silent for two hours on Wednesday to protest the detention of Mohammed Ismael Rasool, who is currently being held in Turkey on charges of assisting terrorists.
Despite his grandiose claims to having served as “an outside paramilitary special operations officer” for the CIA from 1973 to 2000, Wayne Simmons was really a shlub who’d once done a brief military intelligence stint. (more…)
What it means to be a mobile editor, as told by mobile editors themselves
“Mobile editor” is a role that didn’t even exist at most news organizations just a few years ago — at least not the multifaceted, multi-team, multi-platform, multi-everything roles that we sometimes see today. “The role of the mobile editor is defined by motion,” The Wall Street Journal’s executive mobile editor David Hosaid it describing the position. “Motion and change — not just in the news, but in the technology, the tools, the tasks, the roles, and the workflows. It’s a job of constant evolution, of daily disruption.”
5 of the best social media tools that help newsrooms find and share content
As the march of technology (and the death of the traditional newsroom) continues, digital publishers and journalists (like us!) need to continue to adapt to stay ahead of the game and successfully grow audiences. Here, we’ve got some of the best social media tools a digital newsroom can use to to find, source and promote stories by harnessing the power of the mass of publicly available data. What follows is a short list of tools that we’ve either used in the past, use currently or are definitely keeping an eye on for the future. No single tool is going to make…
Many publishers’ digital revenues have been on an upward swing in recent years — but it’s not enough to fill the gaps left by print. According to eMarketer, global digital ad spending in 2015 is expected to reach $170.17 billion. Global mobile ad spending globally should hit $69 billion this year.
Arrest and Prison Time for Journalists and Bloggers over Facebook Posts in Lebanon
A chart by Jordanian satirist Wael Shateely criticising the crackdown on freedom of speech in the region. The quotes read: “It’s best to keep quiet,” “Oppress yourself before you are oppressed,” “Leave responsibility to the officials,” and “Enlightened thoughts cause headaches.” source: http://ift.tt/1LEZwa2
Matthew Keys, an ex-Reuters employee, has been found guilty of aiding members of Anonymous so they could hack his former employer
How to become a games journalist
Advice for young journalists looking to enter the games industry … read more
How the Reveal Project aims to help journalists verify eyewitness media
The initiative, co-funded by the European Commission, is doing research and development work into the different aspects of verifying materials from social media … read more
App for journalists: Live in Five, for streaming live video to YouTube
Turn your smartphone into a live broadcasting device with this free app… read more
Google launches Accelerated Mobile Pages for a ‘faster, open mobile web’
The open source initiative will be a collaborative effort between Google, a group of European publishers and technology companies … read more
It was a quiet manifesto — an 11-page document that unofficially serves as The New York Times’ follow-up to the much dissected Innovation Report of May 2014. (Nieman Lab’s story about the Innovation Report is the most popular story in its history.)
Look at the signatures at the bottom of this new Times document and you can see the impact of a year’s changes. CEO Mark Thompson, now moving into his fourth year at the company, has built his own team, and the 10 signatories inked their futures in what we’ll call the 2020 memo. Editor Dean Baquet, chief revenue officer Meredith Levien, and executive vice president for digital products Kinsey Wilson were among those laying out “Our Path Forward,” first in writing, and now in a series of sessions in the Times building with hundreds of staffers.
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New photo from Facebook October 29, 2015 at 10:59PM
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New photo from Facebook October 29, 2015 at 10:30PM
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#TurkeyElections A list of polls for Nov 1 election and more…
ON WEDNESDAY MORNING, Turkish riot police stormed the offices of Koza Ipek Holding, a media group in Istanbul housing the Bugun TV channel and the Bugunand Millet newspapers.
“Dear viewers,” a Bugun TV anchor casually announced during the early morning broadcast, “do not be surprised if you see police in our studio in the upcoming minutes.” Outside, police were leading journalists away in handcuffs, while citizens — many of them journalists who worked in the building — protested the dawn raid as police attempted to disperse the growing crowd with tear gas and water cannons.
Refugees merely ‘bargaining chip’ in shameful EU-Turkey deal
Richard Howitt is a Labour MEP for the East of England. He is the Socialists & Democrats group spokesperson on foreign affairs in the European Parliament and a member of the EU-Turkey Joint parliamentary committee.
The EHCR has upheld the right of the Turkish politician Dogu Perincek to deny the Armenian genocide. It’s a bad decision with dangerous implications.
On 15 October 2015, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) made a controversial ruling: Switzerland had violated Dogu Perincek’s right to freedom of speech. Perincek is a Turkish politician who made a series of provocative speeches in Switzerland saying there was “no Armenian genocide”; this historical event in the Ottoman empire in 1915 and after was an “imperialist lie”. Swiss courts condemned him under anti-racist laws. In its decision, the ECHR considered that the Swiss courts had “censured (Perincek) for having simply expressed an opinion divergent from those in Switzerland.”
“Human rights and the rule of law in Turkey are at the worst level I’ve seen in the 12 years I’ve worked on Turkey’s human rights.”
The ‘deep state’ meets Erdoğan’s ‘New Turkey’. The country’s resulting predicament is much more dangerous than two decades ago.
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