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

Al Jazeera Live Video

Twitterfall Live - Cairo

BBC News Live blog

Reuters Live

Citizen Journalism

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

Wikileaks - The World's First Stateless News Organization

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Crisis Reporting

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

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

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

Foreign Correspondents

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

AP: McClatchy, Christian Science Monitor to share copy

Crisis Reporting/Mumbai

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

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

"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

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

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

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."

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