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"Everyone is entitled to his own opinion but not to his own facts" Daniel Patrick Moynihan


Reading RussiaDecember 2

Arkady Ostrovsky in The Economist suggests Russia is both a recovering superpower and a corrupt oligarchy - with a market economy, of sorts. 

BBC Monitoring reports on the  Russian media industry under pressure as economic downturn starts to bite at the start of the economic downturn.

The Reuters Institute at Oxford University has recently published a study of the internet in Russia and specifically the role it played - and didn't play- during the recent election.
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WordlesNovember 26

Representations of this blog and my del.icio.us feed via Wordle:


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The risks of free journalismNovember 24

From today's Observer:


Local heroes who died to tell the world of the horrors at their door

Most of the casualties in journalism's deadliest decade have been brave, and unprotected, independents

Mexican crime reporter Armando Rodriguez got into his car at eight in the morning with his young daughter just over a week ago. Then someone shot him eight times. His daughter, Ximena, witnessed the attack but was unharmed. A week earlier, Rodriguez, who reported on crime and drug trafficking, had received a text message warning him to 'tone it down'.

The same day, Russian environmental reporter Mikhail Beketov was found unconscious, badly beaten and bleeding, outside his flat in Khimki, north west of Moscow. He remains in a serious condit


Future of NewsNovember 11

In Sidney Lumet's 1976 Oscar winning movie "Network" Peter Finch, playing deranged news anchor Howard Beale, rails at his audience about the banks going bust, environmental crises, crime on the streets, politicians and the media. "You've got to get mad!" he tells them. It seemed an appropriate way to start a talk to a group of City University students about The Future of News. Because 32 years later we are still dealing with many of the same issues (economic crises, political apathy, a crisis of trust in the media) and anyone setting out now for a career in journalism needs to motivate themselves to overcome a vast array of forbidding problems. I didn't tell them anything new - the themes are now familiar.  

Technological change is transforming how news is produced and consumed. Audiences are fragmenting and undermining the economics of commercial news operations and the more open, interactive and inclusive nature of the internet is challenging the culture and conventions of traditional news organisations.  The media pages and blogs are full of counsels of despair about the future of serious journalism.  But I prefer to side with Tom Curley, the President of the Associated Press news agency who

Journalists and the Semantic WebOctober 29
Great presentation by Colin Meek on how Journalists can use the data-web. (He also has presentations on search and monitoring the web via slideshare)
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