Posts for 'Profiles of Journalists' Category

The Rise of blogging has not really changed journalism yet, but will keep on influencing journalism. The autonomy of the journalist is at stake and cooperation with the blogosphere will be a new requirement.

One difference between the two is that the journalist is an official profession, whereas the blogger is much more of an amateur. The journalist - whether freelance or employee of a publishing company - is part of a professional network of different signatures and social ideologies. The blogger is more of an individualist and less dependent. The free and democratic information market is a fertile soil where independent and new information is powerfull and can easily change the hierarchies, by a newcomer. This is actually happening with the newspapers, where free tabloids and free information on the internet is changing the newspaper market. And so is blogging.

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Six journalists of the state including the editor of Hueiyen Lanpao (English edition), Brozendra Ningomba were awarded the Manipur State Journalists' Award, 2008 in connection with the Information and Public Relations Day observance held at the office complex of DIPR located at Moirangkhom this morning. Editor of Hueiyen Lanpao (English edition), Brozendra Ningomba was awarded the Best Editor's Award.

This is the second time Brozendra Ningomba bagged the State Journalist Award. To his credit, he had previously won the award in 2005.He has been awarded for his editorial writings on national integrity and communal harmony.

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Journalists, editors and photographers are invited to attend the 2nd Congress of Digital Journalism on September 17 and 18 at Universidad Internacional Andalucía, Spain. The event is organized by the Andalusian region's Association of Digital Information Professionals (APDA, in Spanish). Participants will examine how the digital revolution transformed journalism's tools, languages, formats, and ways to relate with sources, contents, and the audience.

The congress will focus on war coverage, journalism without borders, and human rights. Panelists will analyze new ethical conflicts and networks developed around mobile phones, videogames, and social Web sites. Panelists include prominent media professionals such as Guillermo Franco, the former editor of El Tiempo, in Colombia, and Javier Bauluz, the first Pulitzer Prize winner in Spain.

Earlier today, I posted a story about the great season Casey Crosby is having at West Michigan. Toward the end, I made a point about how with young pitchers you are always concerned about health and made reference to Crosby leaving his most recent start after the third inning to drive the point home.

Well, not long after the post went up, there was a comment from somebody posting as Casey's brother - his brother, I'm sure; I'm just playing it safe - stating that his early exit wasn't an injury concern. Rather, he has been working on a two-seam fastball lately and had split open his finger from throwing the new pitch.

I checked everywhere I could think of that traffics in Tiger minor league news and only saw mention of his leaving early. There were no details. Was this a scoop? Naturally, my first instinct once I got home was to highlight the news. However, since I didn't want to end up on the AP wire again, this time as the boob blogger who bought into a bogus tip, I figured I'd better do some digging.

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Aware of the profound changes that are happening in the media world, a US university journalism professor, Danna Walker, has come up with The seven laws of journalism.  It is aimed, of course, at wannabe journalists, so you may consider it a little naïve. It is, but accept it and read on.

And I know that lists are often silly. But I think this advice, despite being obvious to veteran hacks, has its merits. See if you agree... Journalism isn't dead Don't believe what you hear in the news media about the news media. Yes, journalism as we knew it once is gone, but just as Chrysler emerged from bankruptcy, the news is... becoming sleek and efficient. We can't live without cars, and we can't live without news and information.

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The perfect storm of a prolonged recession and the online information explosion is leaving journalism in crisis. Particularly newspapers.

Newscenter's Kathleen Shannon went behind the scenes with staff at the Portland Press Herald and Village Soup - two very different Maine media companies who are navigating the industries challenges in very different ways.

The Portland Press Herald and it's affiliate newspapers the Kennebec Journal and the Waterville Sentinel have seen ad revenue plummet from 90-million in 2004 to 65-million this year.

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Former Kaikoura Star reporter Trevor Ayson and his wife, Marie, have been visiting his family and friends in New Zealand, having been away from Kaikoura for three years. Trevor spent five years as the Kaikoura Star reporter, from 2001 to 2006, but after meeting Marie in 2003 and finally bringing her back to New Zealand in 2005 he realised he hated leaving her to run around chasing stories and attend meetings at night. He decided then it was time for a change.

"I told Marie: you have spent time with me in my country, now the time has come for me to spend time in yours." The couple got married in New Zealand in March 2006, then returned to Marie's home country of the Czech Republic for another wedding in August of the same year.

No longer a journalist, Trevor is now teaching English in his new home which he has been enjoying for the past three years. He began working for a language school teaching adults, but has now changed direction and is teaching teenagers in two different schools, both conversation and general English.

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As pernas esticadas em cima de uma mesa de madeira, o olhar perdido não com o que vê mas com o que sonha, André Carvalhas parece um guerrilheiro do Che à entrada do quartel de Guevara.

O edifício atrás de si, em tempos um tribunal, está ocupado e marcado pela guerra. As salas de audiência e os gabinetes juízes ausentes estão cobertas de camas articuladas – que por aqui carinhosamente se chamam burros do mato -, de mobílias desfeitas e estantes desengonçadas com o peso de papeis arrumados ao calhas. As  janelas estão algumas estão partidas e outras tapadas. E nas varandas sacos de areia cobrem o aço negro de espingardas.

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IT'S ALWAYS HARD to see my students in the journalism program at UMass-Amherst scatter at graduation, but this year is even worse. The uncertainty in the economy has the class of 2009 trembling. "Should I apply to be an assistant manager at Wendy's?" asks a student whose dream it was to work for a small-town paper, her voice shrill with disappointment.

This spring, I was tempted to give an un-graduation speech and to suggest that the newly minted grads lower their expectations, that they rein in their rambunctious natures, and recognize a painful truth: Even in the best of times, your 20s can be rough.

You're going to run up against bosses who have it in for you. The fault lines in your family will become clear in a way they may not have been earlier in your life. Friendships you thought would last forever get redefined and sometimes erode altogether. Your very youthfulness will inspire as much envy as it does admiration.

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Times are tight. But don't tell that to Dawn Jackson, president of Women Business Owners of Prince George's County. She's telling her group's members not to participate in the recession. "Women must work smarter and harder," Ms. Jackson says.

The county is home to an estimated 19,000 female entrepreneurs, according to the Prince George's business and licensing office. Many of them are running both their businesses and their households.  That's why Ms. Jackson is partnering with the county's Minority Business Development Division and the Small Business Initiative to provide a day of networking and relief for female business owners today.

"We turn on the news, and we see it in the newspaper about the recession and all the negative things associated with it. People are struggling. We are all experiencing it. But when we come together and bring our collective strength, then we can turn things around," said Ms. Jackson.

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