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Mastering the mobile phone frontier

By Jonathan Bailey, published on June 22, 2009

Mobile news may be called a frontier, but smart content providers are already working in this space. There are popular iPhone applications for Le Monde, The Associated Press and the BBC. This comparison of each app highlights the importance of finding an attractive and simple way to make content available via mobile phones. A clear and consistent mobile strategy cannot be underestimated. 

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Where is Web 2.0 in Ukraine?

By Ben Colmery, published on June 19, 2009

Ben Colmery, a media development trainer trying to convince Ukrainian journalists to use online social networks, videos and micro-blogging in their reporting, finds that Ukraine is a country emerging from a long and brutal history of authoritarian control of information, secrecy, and propaganda. Information was long the real currency of the Soviet Union. People had money, but there was nothing to buy on the shelves. You needed information to know who had the goods that you could then buy with your money. So, information was horded, and exchanged like a commodity.

In his experience in Ukraine, a lot of people still relate to information this way. 

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Rowing the slaveships of online journalism

By Corentin Wauters, published on June 19, 2009

There has been a rush of hostile reactions to Xavier Ternisien’s gloomy depiction of the working life of online journalists published last month in Le Monde. Other online content providers in France say Ternisien’s article grossly mischaracterises the daily tasks of online journalists. Further, some critics says he should include print journalists in his story about “consenting slaves.”

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Media Pluralism Monitor unveiled

By Eric Karstens, published on June 18, 2009

How do you determine whether regulations for diversity in public broadcasting are successfully implemented?

Or whether a self-regulatory body in the printed press performs well?

How do you decide which kind of political influence on media outlets is undue and was not sufficiently warded off by owners or editorial staff?

A new media pluralism monitor aims to answer these questions and more.

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Twitter and the lone reporter

By Jonathan Bailey, published on June 12, 2009

News organisations need to think about their social news guidelines, as the Wall Street Journal did a few weeks ago.

Social news allows reports to speak directly to the public without passing through the filter of editors. This is a possibility that news organisations need to consider, either as something to embrace or something to curtail. Many media pundits critiqued the WSJ for limiting its reporters use of Twitter and Facebook.

But having no social media policy for reporters is likely inviting disaster.

As reporters and other employees share more and more of their personal lives on the Internet, the line between their personal postings and their role as a face for the company will become increasingly blurred. This will, in turn, cause more and more problems as the personal views and activities of reporters impact their employers.

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