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Is Vine good for journalists?

     Vine is a mobile video sharing app. It allows its users to create and share six second videos. The videos loop continuously and are posted online. Vine is owned by Twitter. It can be used to show action and explain stories. Journalists use Vine to share videos of breaking news as it is happening. 

Pew Research Center on Rise of Online Video Culture

"A new report from the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project finds that online video is growing. 78% of online adults watch or download videos online, up from 69% in 2009, and the share of internet users who upload or post video online has doubled from 14% in 2009 to 31% today."

Interested?  Read the full report by Kristen Purcell.   The Pew Research Center is a great source of statistics and information about the media and journalism.  Check out their other videos on their YouTube channel.  The Pew Internet & American Life Project is especially useful for students of new media.   The Pew Journalism Project is a great source for journalism news as well.

Check out the highlights from their roundtable on the future of non-profit journalism.  

Two short video highlights discuss how "the nonprofit sector faces unique technological challenges in reaching and measuring audiences":

Brian Wheeler (Charlottesville Tomorrow) on "the need for technology resources":

        Nonprofit News Roundtable Highlights: Technology Resources  

Emily Bell (Tow Center for Digital Digital Journalism) on "agreeing on a standard set of metrics":

        Nonprofit News Roundtable Highlights: Determining Metrics  

The Social Media War: Brazilian Newspapers vs Google

Back in October of 2012 Brazil's Newspapers decided to ban their information from google. The reason behind this decision was simply  because Brazil newspapers felt that they were getting the wrong end of the deal. Brazil's newspapers feels as if the Google is not doing their job to benefit both sides. 

 The BBC News reports: 

"Brazil's National Association of Newspapers says all 154 members had followed its recommendation to ban the search engine aggregator from using their content.

The papers say Google News refused to pay for content and was driving traffic away from their websites."

To hear Google that are not doing the simplest of tasks which they are know for is very unheard of. Google is known for providing information over the world to any who uses the search engine. Lately there seems to be a lot of countries pulling out of Google's search engine. 

The Guardian: quoted: National Association of Newspapers for Brazil, Carlos Fernando Lindenberg Neto

"Staying with Google News was not helping us grow our digital audiences, By providing the first few lines of our stories to internet users, the service reduces the chances that they will look at the entire story in our websites."

Brazil newspapers seems to be very upset and dissatisfied with the job Google has done and feels that a split is the best thing for all newspapers in the country. Google has been going though some problems with Brazil first the arrest of a Google senior executive for refusing to take down a video from YouTube and another similar event when a french newspaper company decided to pull its stories form Google. 

 

Social media and American politics

In this day and age many people are online using the Internet for all sorts of things like for shopping, social interactions, looking up the latest news around the world or just you know looking at pictures of cats. That a lot of the time, people use social networking sites to do these things and one trend for Americans that is being seen more on social network sites is americans talking about american politics. 

Examiner.com has reported that "A new survey released Thursday by the Pew Internet and American Life Project indicated that about 39 percent of Americans in this previous election participated in political activity on a SNS."  The reason for new percent of use for the last election has a lot do with the fact that "Social media networking services like Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and others were heavily exploited by the Obama administration and by the former Republican challenger Mitt Romney." 

That politicians or least their PR people notice that Americans are using social networking sites to talk American culture, it problems and politics.That politicians take advance of how fast they can get a statements out on a problem in America on the Internet than would if they use a news outlet. Also they are for reaching for a wider audience across America were it easier and faster to find campaign information on Internet than it is waiting for some politician's campaign Ad commercial to show up on TV. 

Online journalist killed in Mexico

Being a journalist in Mexico can be a death sentcnce for many. Especially because most of the news they write, are about corruption and drug trafficking. Jaime Gonzalez Dominguez, an online 
journalist reporter and founder of Ojinaga Noticias was killed on March 3rd, 2013.

Mr. Dominquez was a reporter with Contacto for many years. In 2011 he left Contacto, because of the huge backlash and death threats the press was getting. Mr. Dominguez decided to start an online news portal called, Ojinaga Noticias, by 2012 it was also available in print.  According to guardian.co.uk, Ojinaga Noticias covered many topics in the town of Ojinaga,  Chihuahua such as local politics, sports, education, and also crime.

According to Amnesty.org, journalist in Mexico are being killed left and right, because the charges and conviction against the killer is non-existant if any.

On March 3, 2013 Univision News, reported that the El Siglo de Terreon receieved  three attacks the week before.  Javier Garza Ramos, an editor at the newspaper believes the attack was towards the police officers guarding the newspaper building.

Mexico is known as one of the most dangerous countries for journalist. So when are we going to instill a since of comfort for the news to be published in Mexico. When journalist can feel free to write or say what is going on without fearing for their lives.

 

 

Pakistani Media News Sources . . .

Use the links on the  BBC Pakistan Profile page to find Pakistani news media.

Check out the South Asian Media Monitor on the home page of SouthAsianMedia.net

Explore the updates at the Pakistan Press Foundation to find a good  PAK media topic.    The PPF  describes itself as "An Independent Media Research, Documentation and Training Center."

Here are some stories to choose from:

• Huma Yusef, "Pakistan’s Media Police," IHT, February 8, 2013.
• "Media associations condemn killing of journalists," Pakistan Today, February 28, 2013.
• M Bilal Lakhani, "Pakistan’s next media revolution," Express Tribune, February 4, 2013
• Sehrish Wasif and Maha Mussadaq, "International Media Summit: ‘Pakistani journalists work under extreme pressure in difficult circumstances'," Express, Tribune, February 3, 2013.
• Nadia Mushtaq Abbasi, "Social media and politics," Pakistan Today, February 10, 2013.
• "Pakistan remains most dangerous country for journalists: Report," Express Tribune, December 31, 2012.
• South Asia Media Commission Report: "Deadliest Place to  Be a Journalist," December 2012.
• "Govt Plans to Restart YouTube," Dawn, February 27, 2013.
• Annie Zaman, "Pakistan: The “Access Is My Right” Campaign,"Global Voices,February 21, 2013.
• Rafay Mahmood, "Lift the ban on YouTube, cry artists," Express Tribune, February 6, 2013.
Sher Khan, "Lollywood woes: Man with censor’s scissors outlines new agenda," Express Tribune, February 5, 2013.
• "Foreign dramas threaten Pakistani cultural values," Daily Times, February 4, 2013.

Indian Media News Sources . . .

Looking for media news from India?

Use the media links  listed on the BBC Indian Media Profile page to look for  media news from Indian news sources.

Here are some media news stories to choose from:

• Reporters Without Borders, "News media and Internet totally censored in Kashmir," February 12, 2013.
• Times of India, "Chidambaram to use social media to defend 2013-14 Budget," March 4, 2013.
• Swasti Chatterjee, "Flash mob on Om Shanti Om songs in Japan," TNN, March 4, 2013.
• Amrita Mulchandani, "There’s nothing real about reality shows: Ragini Khanna," TNN, March 3, 2013. 
• Indiantelevision.com, "Future of reality TV is bright; genre is manipulated and not scripted," February 16, 2013.
• Indiantelevision.com, "Generation C powers YouTube's growth in India, " February 12, 2013.
• Samanth Subramanian, "Censorship and sensibility in India," The National,  February 6, 2013 
• Maitreyee, "Pragaash band member quits J&K, seeks refuge in Bangalore," OneIndia, February 6, 2013.
• Aabha Hanjura, "Music omnipresent in Kashmir, Pragaash must continue" NDTV, February 7, 2013.  

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Bringing Tech to NYC (We'll Provide The Space, You Provide The Genius)

    New York City has recently become a new tech hub for computer geniuses. While the sector is growing, Tracey Samuelson of WNYC says that, “so too have the number of meet-ups, happy hours, demos and networking events – somewhere in the ballpark of hundreds a month are held throughout the city”. These events are producing new ideas through networking and ultimately revving up excitement for the New York tech industry.

    There has been a shift from a rigid, and old Silicon Valley to the bright new economical process in NYC. One way in which office dynamic is changing, is through a new practice called “co-working”. According to Manoush Zomorodi of WNYC, it’s “a communal office space where freelancers, telecommuters, and entrepreneurs can come together to share a copy machine, avoid NYC’s high rents, and make business connections (and friends).” New York leads the way with the most co-working spaces of all the cities in the world. Co-working will no doubt save valuable capital for these up and coming businesses, while also providing a playing field for ideas to bounce around. 

Tech News Podcasts

 WNYC has launched a new radio show  that delivers tech news with a local twist:  New Tech City.  This blog and podcast cover how the digital revolution is changing life and work in the Big Apple.   It'a a great source for news and story ideas as well as a model for how to deliver a radio/podcast news story in a tight well produced segment.   Each segment is a little over eight minutes long.  A link has been added to the sidebar so that you can use New Tech City as a source for your research and as a model for podcasting.

Here's a list of some other worthy tech media for your consideration:

All Tech Considered - NPR

PRI - The World -Technology

Popcasts - Pop! Tech

Scientific American's 60 Second Tech