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Monday 08 February 2010

lecture - Mashable: Slideshow on ‘the future journalist’ – what will they need?


Posted by Laura Oliver in Editors' pick, Multimedia, Social media and blogging, Training

Great presentation from Mashable on ‘The future journalist: thoughts from two generations’. Created for Mashable’s NextUpNYC event the presentation was part of an on-stage discussion between Sree Sreenivasan, a professor and dean of student affairs at Columbia Journalism School, and his former student and Mashable contributor Vadim Lavrusik, which looked at the skills need by the journalist of the future, their approach to the business side of journalism and their use of social and multimedia:

from Journalism.co.uk

video: http://twitcam.com/e66g

News - Applications up by 23%, latest UCAS figures show

Applications up by 23%, latest UCAS figures show: http://bit.ly/ajbNM5

Legal - Exiled billionaire Berezovsky begins libel battle over claim he killed Litvinenko


· V

Vladimir Terluk accused Kremlin critic of responsibility for Litvinenko's death on news programme in 2007
·         Helen Pidd·         guardian.co.uk, Sunday 7 February 2010 20.55 GMT·     
The oligarch Boris Berezovsky is suing over allegations made on Russian TV. Photograph: Kieran Doherty/ReutersOne of Russia's richest oligarchs will appear at the high court in London tomorrow to begin his libel battle with a man who accused him of killingAlexander Litvinenko, the former Russian secret agent who was ­poisoned in 2006.

Boris Berezovsky, a fierce critic of the Kremlin who claimed asylum in the UK in 2003, is suing Vladimir Terluk over comments he made on a Russian news programme in April 2007. In the interview, Terluk – under the pseudonym "Pyotr" – claimed Berezovsky was responsible for Litvinenko's radiation poisoning. The allegation has also been made by Andrei Lugovoi, a former KGB officer whom the British government has named as their prime suspect for the murder.

Berezovsky has always maintained his innocence, saying he was a friend of Litvinenko. He is believed to have owned the London house where Litvinenko lived with his family just prior to his death.  

to read more: 
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/feb/07/berezovsky-libel-battle-litvinenko-death

News: New Global Investigative Journalism Network is up and running

The new site is up at
http://globalinvestigativejournalism.org/


There is much work to do and many plans for the site and our social media,
but we now can begin building on this.

We also have the interim Facebook up and have delayed adding new friends to that til now. Set up of Linked-In next.

Best regards,

Brant Houston
Coordinator, GIJN



Saturday 06 February 2010

News - A watchdog exploited (by Jon Snow)


 
The way Sri Lanka used Ofcom to curb Channel 4 reports of its atrocities has chilling implications
snow Jon Snow guardian.co.uk, Thursday 4 February 2010 20.30 GMT The scandal of Britain's libel laws and their facility for libel tourism is well known. So too is our cavalier attitude to freedom of speech. But the idea that a country with one of the worst records for press freedom and human rights could use UK broadcast regulations to challenge legitimate reporting of allegations of cold-blooded killings in a brutal civil war surely takes the UK to a new place.

to read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/feb/04/watchdog-channel-4-ofcom-sri-lanka

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