internationalreporting

2011-02-01T00:00:00.000-08:00

NYT: Al Jazeera English Finds an Audience

"While American television networks were scrambling to move reporters and producers into Cairo, the Al Jazeera channels were already there."

Crisis Reporting - Case Egypt

2011-01-29T03:25:00.000-08:00

Al Jazeera Live Video

Twitterfall Live - Cairo

BBC News Live blog

Reuters Live

Citizen Journalism

2010-08-04T07:03:00.000-07:00

Journalism.co.uk: OhmyNews closes international citizen journalism site

Wikileaks - The World's First Stateless News Organization

2010-08-04T04:22:00.000-07:00

Jay Rosen: The Afghanistan War Logs Released by Wikileaks, the World's First Stateless News Organization

Wikileaks.org: Afghan War Diary, 2004-2010

Der Spiegel: Explosive Leaks Provide Image of War from Those Fighting It

New York Times: The War Logs

The Guardian: The Afghanistan War Logs

Martin Moore/MediaShift: How News Organizations Should Prepare for Data Dumps

The Role of the Social Media in Haiti's Earthquake News

2010-01-18T05:20:00.000-08:00

WSJ: Twitter Helps in Haiti Quake Coverage, Aid (14.1.2010)

Editors' web log: Communication key to relief effort in Haiti (18.1.2010)

Crisis Journalism: Haiti

2010-01-15T01:01:00.000-08:00

NYT: Media Struggle to Convey a Disaster (14.1.2010)

CJR: The Undercovered Country. Haiti as journalists have known it (14.1.2010)

Web 2.0: Citizen Journalism and Tweets Bring Haiti’s Horror to the World (14.1.2010)

Google News

API's Handbook for Media Response

Safety at Work

2010-01-05T02:10:00.000-08:00

The Guardian: Nearly 140 journalists killed in 2009 - International Federation of Journalists says last year was one of the worst for targeted killing of journalists.

Asia: Blogger Network

2009-10-22T03:24:00.000-07:00

The Guardian: AsianCorrespondent.com to build far-east foreign reporting collective.

Iran Protests and News Media

2009-06-22T03:43:00.000-07:00

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

Innovations in International Reporting

2009-05-14T23:24:00.000-07:00

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

Innovations in international reporting

2009-01-12T06:34:00.000-08:00

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

Crisis Reporting

2008-12-29T05:33:00.000-08:00

The New York Times: "America’s three broadcast network news divisions have stopped sending full-time correspondents to Iraq. - - Iraq has been, according to some executives, the most expensive war ever for TV news organizations."

New Business Models

2008-12-09T02:10:00.000-08:00

Melinda and Bill Gates Foundation starts to fund international health reporting.

The NYT: Gates Foundation Gives Millions for Coverage of World Health

Foreign Correspondents

2008-12-02T03:53:00.000-08:00

Two American news companies start sharing the work of their foreign correspondents.

AP: McClatchy, Christian Science Monitor to share copy

Crisis Reporting/Mumbai

2008-12-01T09:37:00.000-08:00

The role of citizen journalism was important in reporting the terrorist attack inMumbai according to the NYT: "The attacks in India served as another case study in how technology is transforming people into potential reporters, adding a new dimension to the news media".

The New York Times: Citizen Journalists Provided Glimpses of Mumbai Attacks

Crisis Reporting/Mumbai

2008-12-01T08:50:00.000-08:00

The newest test for the global news media was the terrorist attack in Mumbai, India. According the first news media analysis the traditional news media was beaten by social media, Twitter.

The New York Observer: Twitter Grows Up

Ethics

2008-11-25T01:47:00.000-08:00

"When it comes to foreign news journalism, you can earn a lot of points by going to a dangerous place."

Sending reporters to dangerous places is a difficult procedure, and can cause a lot of pressures among journalists and their families. The Guardian just reported this sad example, which should rise ethical talks within the BBC News, and elsewhere in foreign news business.

BBC journalist shot dead in Somalia felt under pressure to go, family say

Citizen Media

2008-11-20T04:15:00.000-08:00

AllVoices, the newest online-try to use non-journalists as main contributors for creating a new international news media. Innovative, indeed.

See also the review by EJC.

Crisis reporting

2008-11-18T04:58:00.000-08:00

We all know that there is nothing as expensive in journalism as producing foreign news. Therefore, in these economically turbulent times, this model by Pulitzer Center On Crisis Reporting can been as a model for future of international reporting.

Innovations in Foreign Reporting

2008-10-19T04:12:00.000-07:00

A new foreign news media is to be born January 2009, which tries to fill the holes of the struggling American news media. According to MarketWatch GlobalPost, based in Boston, "will be the first Web-based news organization to provide daily international news coverage by its own team of experienced correspondents from every corner of the world."

Watch the video

PR and War Reporting

2008-08-18T02:38:00.000-07:00

Peter Wilby (The Guardian): Georgia has won the PR war

The Role of Bloggers: War in Georgia

2008-08-13T02:57:00.000-07:00

CNN: Bloggers weigh in on Georgia

Global Voices (Harvard): Georgia, Russia: Tbilisi Reports

New Global News Media - Twitter

2008-08-05T13:16:00.000-07:00

Twitter is possible able to challenge the old news media behemoths. Read more from Wired.

Images/Iraq War

2008-07-26T07:03:00.000-07:00

Without images the war stories lack of authenticity needed to tell the big picture of the world. Controlling, that is censoring, the flow of pictures, the military and political leaders can prevent "emotional shocks" created by graphic images. This is the outcome of the lessons of Vietnam war coverage, when the flow of images were not controlled, and caused massive reactions among the audience in the U.S. Since then wars have transformed mainly into numbers of casualties. The War in Iraq is the latest example as The New York Times summarized 4,000 U.S. Combat Deaths, and Just a Handful of Images.

Foreign Reporting/CBS News

2008-06-26T02:15:00.000-07:00

In times, when the U.S. news media is still diminishing its foreign reporting, journalists like Lara Logan, the CBS News chief foreign correspondent is really needed. Last week she criticized the war coverage of the U.S. media in the Daily Show with Jon Steward, and now she was promoted to be as chief foreign affairs correspondent, says The New York Times.

China/Censorship Practices Under Pressure

2008-05-18T15:28:00.000-07:00

The New York Times: Earthquake Opens Gap in Controls on Media

"One of the biggest challenges, though, is to the country’s sometimes sophisticated, sometimes heavy-handed propaganda system. China’s censors found themselves uncharacteristically hamstrung when they tried to micromanage news coverage of the earthquake, as they do most major news stories in China. By Wednesday, so many reporters had ignored the government’s instructions that the Propaganda Department rescinded its original order, replacing it with another, more realistic one, reflecting its temporary loss of control."

Crisis Reporting/Tibet

2008-03-26T08:56:00.000-07:00

WSJ: Journalists Begin Tibet Tour Under Close Watch of Chinese

War Reporting/Iraq

2008-03-24T06:13:00.000-07:00

War reporting is always reporting from the borders of journalism. The question is, how is it possible to make good journalism in extreme working conditions. Almost impossible, see especially the situation in Iraq.

The New York Times: The War Endures, but Where’s the Media?

Freedom of Speech/Internet Filtering

2008-03-21T17:05:00.000-07:00

Four world-class schools, Harvard, Toronto, Cambridge, and Oxford have put their efforts together in order to monitor state-based Internet filtering. And, they have published the results of their observations in a joint-blog called OpenNet Iniative Blog, already since 2004.

A great model for other scholars, educators to follow.

1) Pick up your important topic,

2) Gather a team of schools, or research institutions around you,

3) Start posting your observations in recular basis in a news, and commentary blog, and

4) Finally do a summary, organize a seminar, or a conference, and do a research paper, or even a book based on your blog postings, feed-backs, and visitor data as a starting point.

Latest postings by OpenNet Iniative Blog:

* Tibet, China and the information gaps between

* YouTube and the rise og geolocational filtering

* Armenia imposes Internet censorship as unrest breaks out following disputed Presidential elections

Press Freedom/Russia

2008-03-21T16:23:00.000-07:00

"Russia has witnessed a steady rollback of post-Soviet media and political freedoms during President Vladimir Putin's eight-year presidency," says CNN.com, and it showed the newest sad evidence.

Global News

2008-02-15T05:34:00.000-08:00

New web only international news publication, yes, Global News, is scheduled to launch next year based in the U.S., Boston, but promised to have correspondents in about 70 countries. In addition, the venture has succeeded to collect more than $ 7 million, so far. It is run by veteran journalist Phillip S. Balboni. In times of diminishing original foreign reporting, new international news sources are really needed. Especially, in the U.S.

Boston Globe: NECN founder starting news site

Foreign Reporting

2008-02-14T07:18:00.000-08:00

E & P (AP): 87 Journalists Killed on the Job in 2007, China Leads in Jailing Them

Iraqi journalists have made great sacrifices during last years in their work in order to cover news for foreign media.

Citizen News Video

2008-02-13T05:00:00.000-08:00

Finally, Reuters has told that CNN will enter YouTube territory with its citizen journalism site iReport.com.

Video clips are among the main drivers in the Internet´s multimedia world just now, and the trend seems to continue. The main actor is Google with its YouTube. According to MediaPost and new comScore data, just recently, Google sites saw substantial growth and extended their video market share gains. All together, U.S. Web users watched more than 10 billion videos online in December. As predicted, the Writers Guild of America three-month-long strike appears to be contributing to a surge in online video viewing activity. The loosing side - broadcast and cable-tv.

This kind of "strike-effect on media consumption" has happened several times before in the history of the media. For example, during 1960´s, when newspaper journalist went on strike in the U.S. and elsewhere for several months, network TV-news ratings were boosted. Actually, for the very first time TV-news became more important source for the people than newspapers. Something similar can happen now with video sharing sites.

That´s why CNN launched its counter-strike, and most likely, later, all other major media news producers as well has to follow its model.

However, another solution for the MSM to survive with the disruptive Internet-effects, is to ship quality content to existing popular video sharing sites. British news behemoth BBC News and its commercial rival ITN News has done this already some time ago with YouTube.

Business of News

2008-02-12T13:44:00.000-08:00

When the price of the news has dropped almost into zero because of the Internet, how is it possible to sustain any news business anymore. This is exceptionally vital question for foreign news, which is the most expensive sports of the news business. Here is one of the first academic scholars, who has explored the question. His name is James T. Hamilton, and he is Charles S. Sydnor Professor of Public Policy, Economics, and Political Science at Duke University.

Here is a good opportunity to hear and watch the man himself:

UC Berkeley/Graduate School of Journalism: "The Economics of News" with James T. Hamilton. (approx. 1hour)

And here is a link to his book: All the News That's Fit to Sell:How the Market Transforms Information into News (2004)

Images

2008-01-21T13:05:00.000-08:00

NYT: Getty Images Up for Sale, Could Fetch $1.5 Billion

"The world’s biggest supplier of pictures and video to media and advertising companies, has put itself on the auction block. - - Getty, founded in 1995 in Seattle, has grown through a series of acquisitions into a go-to source for visual media, claiming an average service of 3.2 billion images and 4 million unique visitors at its Web site each month."

Foreign Reporting

2007-12-18T05:26:00.000-08:00

NYT:64 Journalists Killed Worldwide in 2007, the Most Since ’94

Global Video Sharing

2007-06-19T12:11:00.000-07:00

IHT: YouTube to expand in Europe and Asia

"The expansion will make new YouTube sites available in Japan, Brazil, France, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain and the United Kingdom."

Foreign News Production/Cooperation/U.S.

2007-04-08T13:03:00.000-07:00

AP/IHT: McClatchy/Yahoo Foreign News Deal Opens Doors to Other Possibilities

Citizen Journalism/OhmyNews/Korea

2007-03-29T15:32:00.000-07:00

SF Chronicle: Reinventing news, Korean 'citizen journalism' site faces challenges

"After having turned a small profit for three years, OhmyNews slid into the red in 2006. It faces growing competition in South Korea, has failed to catch fire beyond its borders and, most important, has lost its luster as the must-read, latest new thing."

Foreign Correspondents/U.S. Media

2007-03-28T12:45:00.000-07:00

The Washington Post: Demise of the Foreign Correspondent

"Knowing about the world is not a luxury; it is an urgent necessity.But instead of stepping up coverage of international affairs, American newspapers and television networks are steadily cutting back."

Freedom of Speech/Yahoo!/China

2007-03-15T22:57:00.000-07:00

The Wired News: 'Yahoo Betrayed My Husband'

Foreign Correspondents/Brussels/Research

2007-03-12T11:25:00.000-07:00

Cordis: EU project looks into world of Brussels-based journalists

"Journalists from bigger countries have more power because sources are more interested in talking to them".

"One of the biggest challenges facing journalists is the vast amount of information coming out of the institutions, and the jargon used. Learning to understand the jargon and how to decide which pieces of information are relevant and important is a hard task for journalists arriving in Brussels."

Journalists at Work

2007-03-06T22:52:00.000-08:00

NY Times: 1,000 Journalists Killed in 10 Years While Reporting

"The three deadliest countries for journalists in the last decade were Iraq, Russia and Colombia."

Reuters´ version

Citizen Journalism/OhmyNews

2007-02-22T22:16:00.000-08:00

OhmyNews: OhmyNews Celebrates 7 Years of Citizen Journalism

Copyright Lawsuit/Google News/Belgium

2007-02-13T15:16:00.000-08:00

AP: Court Orders Google to Pull Belgian News

"Google Inc. lost a copyright lawsuit Tuesday to Belgian newspapers that had demanded it remove headlines and links to articles posted on its news site without their permission."

Foreign Correspondents/U.S. Media

2007-01-28T22:12:00.000-08:00

The Washington Post: The Vanishing Foreign Correspondent

"The reporting corps had diverse views on the central questions of the time, and even on what the central questions were, and the reports we sent home reflected that. Readers benefited from the diversity and competition".

Foreign Correspondents

2007-01-23T22:31:00.000-08:00

WSJ: Local Papers Mull Their Global Role

"The Boston Globe said it would close all three of its remaining overseas bureaus."

Foreign Correspondents at Work

2007-01-16T22:20:00.000-08:00

Independent: The 5-Minute Interview: Christiane Amanpour, television journalist

Global Tv-news/France

2006-12-04T22:49:00.000-08:00

AFP/Yahoo: France's 24-hr international TV network to hit airwaves

Media Restrictions/China

2006-12-04T22:35:00.000-08:00

The Guardian: China to relax media restrictions

"China has moved to relax its infamously draconian restrictions on media coverage for the run-up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics. The new regulations abolish decades-old rules that require foreign reporters to obtain government approval for all travel and interviews."

Citizen Journalism

2006-12-04T21:57:00.000-08:00

The New York Times: Have Camera Phone? Yahoo and Reuters Want You to Work for Their News Service

"There is an ongoing demand for interesting and iconic images," said Chris Ahearn, the president of the Reuters media group. He said the agency had always bought newsworthy pictures from individuals and part-time contributors known as stringers."

Yahoo´s You Witness News

PS.

War Reporting/Language/Iraq

2006-11-28T13:16:00.000-08:00

E&P: 'Civil' Disobedience Spreads - 'NYT' Adjusts Language on Iraq

"In the wake of the highly-publicized NBC and MSNBC decision to start referring to the conflict in Iraq as a "civil war," other media outlets, which have long used phrases such as "sectarian violence," are re-considering their language in this regard."

Election Coverage/U.S.

2006-11-27T15:23:00.000-08:00

Project for Excellence in Journalism: Election Night 2006 - An Evening in the Life of the American Media

"Perhaps the destinations best suited to Election Night 2006 were the Web sites of TV news operations, plus one aggregator. They offered a combination of quick access to results plus the ability of users—largely through access to exit poll data or Associated Press material—to plumb a wealth of statistical information on their own."

Google News/Copyrights/Belgium

2006-11-27T14:28:00.000-08:00

Computerworld: Google reaches deal with two Belgian press groups

Global tv-news/Al-Jazeera

2006-11-15T13:05:00.000-08:00

Bloomberg: Al Jazeera Takes on CNN, BBC With English Language News Channel

Global tv-news channels

2006-11-01T18:09:00.000-08:00

The Economist: News of the world

"About a dozen news channels now go out internationally, with more ready to run. The BBC has revived its own Arab venture, which is set to hit small screens next year. CNN International has made money for several years, but few of the new channels offering 24-hour rolling news seem likely to turn a profit any time soon."

Reporting on Crisis/Katrina Aftermath

2006-10-28T19:20:00.000-07:00

E & P: Editors at APME Tour Katrina Devastation: Can't Believe Eyes

“It is always better to have an eyewitness account,” Newseum Executive Director Joe Urschel said as the tour ended. “It is more unsettling because it is real. It is not just a clip on television.”

RSF´s Press Freedom Index 2006

2006-10-23T23:12:00.000-07:00

RSF: North Korea, Turkmenistan, Eritrea the worst violators of press freedom -
France, the United States and Japan slip further Mauritania and Haiti gain much ground

Global Business News Business

2006-10-23T23:09:00.000-07:00

International Herald Tribune: Dow Jones to buy rest of Factiva from joint venture partner Reuters for $160 million

CNN/Christiane Amanpour/Lecture

2006-10-18T14:50:00.000-07:00

The Stanford Daily: CNN Correspondent recalls legacy of journalist and alum

"Speaking without notes to a standing-room-only audience, Amanpour offered insights, not only from her experience as a prolific foreign correspondent, but also as a critic of her own industry and a first-hand observer of world conflicts. Her subject matter ranged from diminishing international support for the War on Terror to her view that journalism has become too heavily beholden to profits and, consequently, too trivial."

“I’ve seen wholesale cuts in foreign bureaus,
wholesale retreat from foreign news coverage,
” she said. “It could not come at a worse time,
with the world so tense, with policy being so
heavily politicized that it is so difficult even to
figure out where is the truth.”

See more about Amanpour

Foreign Correspondents/Telegraph

2006-10-18T13:49:00.000-07:00

The Guardian: More foreign moves at Telegraph

Global Tv-news-channel/BBC/Iran

2006-10-14T20:07:00.000-07:00

BBC News: BBC to launch TV channel for Iran

War Reporting/Iraq

2006-10-14T19:46:00.000-07:00

E &P/AP: Threats to Journalists Rise in Iraq

Humanitarian Crises/Africa/CNN

2006-10-08T23:11:00.000-07:00

USA Today: CNN initiative helps get the most difficult news out of Africa

War Reporting/Iraq

2006-10-08T22:52:00.000-07:00

The New York Times: Anti-U.S. Attack Videos Spread on Web

Press Freedom/Russia

2006-10-07T22:49:00.000-07:00

The New York Times: Journalist Critical of Chechen War Is Shot Dead

BBC News: Obituary: Anna Politkovskaya

More: Google News

Journalists at Work/Statistics

2006-09-21T15:20:00.001-07:00

Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ):

"Five hundred and eighty journalists have been killed for their work over the past 15 years, many on the orders of government and military officials, a new investigation by the Committee to Protect Journalists has found."

Deadly News Report

Archives/Statistics

War Reporting/Iraq

2006-09-21T13:08:00.000-07:00

Editor & Publisher: 'NYT' War Reporter: 'Anarchy' Curtails Reporting in Iraq

Court Ruling/Google News/Belgium

2006-09-20T14:22:00.000-07:00

Guardian Unlimited: Google to appeal, as court rules news site is illegal

Media Anniversary Hype

2006-08-30T17:52:00.000-07:00

Washington Post/Howard Kurtz: Katrina Redux

"I am not a big fan of media anniversary hype. The avalanche of "one year after" and "five years after" stories always strike me as a form of journalistic laziness. - - And yet, I find myself pleased that the one-year benchmark, artificial as it is, has produced a spate of good reporting about Hurricane Katrina and finally put the national spotlight back on the Gulf Coast."

Global tv-news

2006-07-13T14:36:00.000-07:00

The Guardian: CNN takes a closer look at Africa

Google News

2006-05-30T15:31:00.000-07:00

The Guardian: Google News inventor Krishna Bharat is unperturbed by the accusation that his product may be undermining the relevance and revenue of print titles

Web Censorship

2006-05-30T15:00:00.000-07:00

BBC News: Web censorship: Correspondent reports

"As human rights group Amnesty International launches a global campaign to try to halt censorship of the internet by governments, BBC correspondents report from some countries where web users face difficulties."

International Reporting

2006-05-30T12:53:00.000-07:00

Reuters: Times eyes more foreign deals, 10,000 US readers

"Many of the great papers in the U.S. that had networks of correspondents have trimmed them at a time when U.S. interest in the outside world is increasing," the Times´ U.S. edition´s editor Robert Thomson said.

"This provides an opportunity, particularly in a global city like New York, for an alternative supply of high quality foreign coverage."

War Correspondents

2006-05-30T12:25:00.000-07:00

NY Times: Iraq Becomes Deadliest of Modern Wars for Journalists

News Agencies

2006-05-30T12:03:00.000-07:00

The Guardian: Reuters recruits 100 journalists

Foreign Correspondents

2006-05-23T15:40:00.000-07:00

Broadcasting & Cable: APTN Opens North Korea Bureau

Foreign Correspondents

2006-05-23T15:39:00.000-07:00

Broadcasting & Cable: NBC Opens Beirut Bureau

Under-reported Stories

2006-05-17T09:57:00.000-07:00

UPI: Ten Stories That Desperately Need to Be Told

"Every year, the U.N.'s Department of Public Information (DPI) unveils its list of the world's 10 most under-reported stories, implying that politics, murder and sex scandals still take precedence over poverty, peace-building or economic development."

"The list, released by the United Nations Monday, covers a wide range of stories -- from the plight of asylum seekers and refugees in ongoing conflicts to earthquake relief and post-war reconstruction -- that received little or no play in the world media."

Global TV-news

2006-04-12T19:32:00.000-07:00

The Guardian: English al-Jazeera eyes June launch

"Al-Jazeera's new English-language news service, al-Jazeera International, could launch globally as early as June, its managing director Nigel Parsons revealed today."