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Friday, December 2, 2016

In just one day, Erdoğan changed his explanation for why Turkey is in Syria…

Erdoğan’s Target was Assad Yesterday, Just Organizations Today

Bianet :: English

Explaining that purpose of Turkey’s military offensive into Syria is to “put an end to Assad’s governing” two days ago, Erdoğan today said that their target is not a country or a person.

Dutch Ask E.U. to Pressure Turkey Over Crackdown

NYT > Turkey by By JAMES KANTER

The Netherlands joined Austria in balking at membership talks with Turkey, which has purged thousands of people after a failed coup effort.

New Israeli ambassador arrives in Ankara after rapprochement

The new Israeli Ambassador to Ankara, Eitan Na’eh, arrived to Ankara on Dec. 1 to start duties in his new post. Turkey’s newly appointed ambassador to Israel, Kemal Ökem, is expected to be in Tel Aviv in the first week of December, according to sources.

Erdoğan, Merkel talk refugees, Syria in phone call

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and German Chancellor Angela Merkel held a phone conversation on Dec. 1., private broadcaster CNN Türk has reported

Turkey wants high-level summit to broker visa deal with EU

Despite ongoing sound and fury in ties between Turkey and the EU, efforts to accomplish a long-standing deal on granting visa-free travel to Turkish nationals in return for implementing the refugee Readmission Agreement have reached a critical point

Turkish military operation in Syria not against anyone but terror groups: Erdoğan

The Turkish military operation in Syria is not against any person but terror groups, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Dec. 1

Connection with two Turkish soldiers lost in Syria: Military

Connection with two soldiers deployed in Syria as a part of the ongoing Euphrates Shield Operation has been lost, the Turkish Armed Forces announced late on Nov. 29

Turkey’s Syrian and Iraqi adventures: the underlying message

open Democracy News Analysis – by Emre Caliskan and Simon A. Waldman

Turkey is sending a message that its armed forces are still a strong and capable fighting force, despite large-scale purges of officers of the highest ranks.

Picture by Pivox. CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia CommonsTurkey, it appears, is itching for a fight in Iraq and Syria. Its August incursion into Syria, through the ongoing Operation Euphrates Shield, was no doubt an important turning point. No longer an active bystander to the conflict in Syria, Turkey became an actual participant in the civil war that has been waging for over five years.

Pakistan court delays deportation of Turkish teachers

BBC News | Europe | World Edition

More than 100 Turkish teachers ordered to leave Pakistan are granted a stay by a local court.

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Thursday, December 1, 2016

Journalism agenda: Channel 4’s Patrick Worrall says ‘Too early to surrender’ to the post-truth narrative…

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‘Too early to surrender’ to the post-truth narrative, says Channel 4’s Patrick Worrall

Journalism.co.uk

Worrall, of Channel 4’s FactCheck team, says the current ‘post-fact’ landscape is not irreversible

“Trump’s Seven Techniques To Control The Media” by Robert Reich

Social Europe Journal » Blogs by Robert Reich

Robert Reich

Democracy depends on a free and independent press, which is why all tyrants try to squelch it. They use seven techniques that, worryingly, President-elect Donald Trump already employs.

How the NY Times prepared for Castro’s death

kottke.org by Jason Kottke

In a peek at how the media sausage is made, the NY Times has documented how the newspaper prepared for the death of Fidel Castro. For instance, they’ve had an advance obituary on hand for him since 1959, which has been revised and rewritten dozens of times before it was finally published over the weekend.

Fidel Castro’s obituary cost us more man/woman hours over the years than any piece we’ve ever run.

Every time there was a rumor of death, we’d pull the obit off the shelf, dust it off, send it back to the writer, Tony DePalma, for any necessary updates, maybe add a little more polish here and there and then send it on to be copy-edited and made ready — yet again — for publication.

Even deep into his 70s and 80s, the Cuban dictator outlived the broadsheet size of the paper and digital media formats.

Reuters built its own algorithmic prediction tool to help it spot (and verify) breaking news on Twitter

Nieman Journalism Lab by Ricardo Bilton

When it comes to automating the process of spotting breaking news, solving one problem can create several more.

Reuters discovered this firsthand over the past two years as it built Reuters News Tracer, a custom tool designed to monitor Twitter for major breaking news events as they emerge. While reporters curate their own lists of sources to get rapid alerts on stories they’re already looking for, the Reuters tool is designed to solve a different problem: detecting breaking news events while early reports are still coming in.

A Snapchat news channel from ARD and ZDF aims to engage young audiences in current affairs

Journalism.co.uk

Journalist Eva Schulz explains how the German broadcasters are reaching out to young audiences on the new platform

New Report on Navigating Copyright Law and Eyewitness Media

First Draft News

For case studies, best practices and a review of how copyright and fair use laws apply in different countries, download our latest report.

Newsgathering on social media raises a wide range of ethical, managerial and legal questions. The goal of our latest report is to clear up confusion around copyright law and give readers an understanding of how it applies to photographs and videos captured at the scene of a news event. We highlights some of the pitfalls news organisations should avoid when looking to use this eyewitness media in their reporting and also look at six countries — the UK, US, Germany, France, Finland and Australia — and discuss the unique challenges that apply to each jurisdiction with senior executives and editors.

France Info has been drawing the news and taking fact-checking to the streets

Journalism.co.uk

The team has been tasked with creating videos that work both on television and social media, with mixed results in its first few months on air

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Timelapse of Istanbul thru Google Earth. 1984-2016

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New photo from Facebook December 01, 2016 at 03:48PM

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Anthro roundup: “The Wenner-Gren Foundation: Supporting Anthropology for 75 Years”

Eurosphere agenda: Europe’s pupils bad at maths debated… Belgian beer culture added to UNESCO’s heritage list…

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Belgian beer culture added to UNESCO’s heritage list

EurActiv.com by Georgi Gotev

Beer culture in Belgium was inscribed yesterday (30 November) on UNESCO’s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.

Debate: Why are Europe’s pupils bad at maths?

euro|topics

Ever four years the Timss Study tests the mathematics skills of grade four pupils around the world. States in the Far East have long scored the best, with Russia leading the countries of Europe. Pupils from Germany, Finland and the Netherlands fared worse in 2015 than in 2011, according the newly-published study. No one in Europe cares about teaching young people to calculate, commentators bristle

The counter-revolution of the Right

open Democracy News Analysis – by Pablo Stefanoni

With eyes set on Russia and fighting a cultural battle of its own, an anti-liberal and anti-cosmopolitan project is consolidating itself both in Europe and the United States. Español

Golden Dawn demonstration in 2012. Athens,Greece.Steve Jurvetson/Flickr. Some rights reserved.

Rights groups expose flaws in EU counterterrorism directive

EurActiv.com by Georgi Gotev

The European institutions reached an agreement yesterday (30 November) on a directive that is aimed at better equipping the EU with instruments to counter terrorism. But civil rights groups warned that it risks undermining fundamental freedoms.

Debate: How to counter right-wing populists?

euro|topics

Fear of globalisation is the driving force behind right-wing populism and traditional values play less of a role, a recent survey carried out by the Bertelsmann Foundation shows. In view of the rising popularity of right-wing demagogues in many European countries and the US, commentators discuss how to counter right-wing populism.

Renzi’s gamble

BBC News | Europe | World Edition

James Reynolds reports on the reform referendum that threatens to dump the prime minister who called it.

EU failing on Roma rights

EUobserver.com – Headline News

EU led efforts to integrate Roma communities in Europe are failing with poverty and social exclusion pervasive throughout the minority group, according to an EU-rights agency.

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For Turkey’s Minister of Health, Birth Control is an outdated method….

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Minister of Health: We Don’t Have Such Outdated Methods Like Birth Control

Bianet :: English

Responding to the parliamentary inquiry by Danış Beştaş from HDP, Minister of Health, Akdağ has said; “Our Ministry has no such outdated methods like birth control”.

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