Monday, June 22, 2009

Iran Protests and News Media

Iran is the latest case to test the news media's ability to transmit news in crisis situations. So far, it looks, the biggest winners are new social media enterprises like Twitter, Facebook, and Google - not the traditional news organizations.

GlobalPost: Opinion: The complexity of covering Iran

MediaShift: Rules of Engagement for Journalists on Twitter

AP: Web support pours out for Iran protesters

AP: World's media seeks ways around Iran clampdown


Mashable:#IranElection Crisis: A Social Media Timeline

The New York Times: Twitter on the Barricades: Six Lessons Learned


Thursday, May 14, 2009

Innovations in International Reporting

The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting has tested new entrepreneurial models for foreign news reporting almost four years.

OJR:
Foreign reporting, the entrepreneurial and multimedia way


Monday, January 12, 2009

Innovations in international reporting

Definitely, against the mainstream goes this new born news medium from Boston. It is called GlobalPost.com., and it has, for the start, 65 correspondents in 45 countries.

It says that "GlobalPost is setting out to redefine international reporting in the digital age, but we are old school when it comes to journalistic standards."

Read more:

Boston Globe:
Foreign news website hopes readers will pay for quality

C.M Sennott:
GROUNDTRUTH: GlobalPost's Field Guide for Correspondents