Crisis Reporting/Tibet

WSJ: Journalists Begin Tibet Tour Under Close Watch of Chinese

War Reporting/Iraq

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

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

"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.