iConflict is pleased to release our first webcast. Even though our social media site is still in development and several weeks away from launch, we decided to start webcasting on our blog given the high interest in iConflict.
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Doctors Without Borders recently released its Tenth Annual “Top Ten” Most Underreported Humanitarian Stories of 2007.
People struggling to survive violence, forced displacement, and disease in the Central African Republic (CAR), Somalia, Sri Lanka, and elsewhere often went underreported in the news this year and much of the past decade, according to the 10th annual list […]
A two-term Republican President is leaving office. A new medium of communication has become a household item. So far, this medium has been used in Presidential politics but only with limited success. The election is expected to be tightly contested, fought by bitter rivals. The country has troops abroad, an expanding […]
Apparently, a lot of it went online, according to Alternet, an online news magazine.
The article states, “It turns out that there’s lots of good journalism being practiced out there — in the much-maligned mainstream media, in the independent sector, on the air, in print and even (dare I say it?) right here in the blogosphere.”
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Posted on Flickr, by billybobphotos, this pie chart demonstrates what CNN covered during a recent 30 minute stretch of its Headline News Channel.
According to CNN, Headline News is supposed to be 24-hour news headlines presented in a thirty-minute cyclic format. I know its the end of December and news tends to be slower this […]
On November 12th we ordered the computer, and today, after much anticipation it arrived. The One Laptop per Child (OLPC) undertaking is nothing short of remarkable. Against great odds and in the face of many doubters, Nicholas Negroponte has traveled the globe more times than anyone can count to press governments into purchasing […]
In 1992 MTV injected itself into presidential politics with its ‘Choose or Lose’ initiative. While that first effort was more remembered by its ‘boxers or briefs’ moment with then-Governor Bill Clinton, it still was important for informing the 18-35 year old demographic on the election.
Now MTV’s ‘Choose or Lose’ is back, this time using […]
At least someone in academia is on the right track this week. In a piece in the Seattle Times, Professor David Domke of the University of Washington and Professor Elizabeth Blanks Hindman of Washington State University, warn of the dangers facing journalism today unless change is made.
“Online news provides opportunities for that mix […]
In a strong counter-argument to the story that appeared in yesterday’s Atlanta Journal Constutition, Professor Lenard Witt outlines the reasons why citizen journalists do not require regulation.
Yesterday on Blogflict, we blogged about the David Hazinski article, and took a critical viewpoint. Many other bloggers joined in and were equally if not more critical.
We hope this […]
Where do we even start with this one?
The Atlanta Journal Constitution writes in today’s paper, “the reality is it really isn’t journalism at all, and it opens up information flow to the strong probability of fraud and abuse…Advocates argue that the acts of collecting and distributing makes these people ‘journalists.’ This is like saying someone […]