Community updates

Chronological news digests

2012-05-21

MinnPost’s new legislative Bill Explorer tool - a single place to check up on what elected officials are up to

Tatiana Repkova | www.niemanlab.org/2012/05 ... |

United States of America

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Northern North America

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Covering / Reporting Politics / Elections / Campaigns / Government / Public Events
Covering / Reporting Legal Issues / Courts - Identification of Victims / Witnesses / Suspects / Defenders - Gag / Suppression Orders
Data / Database Journalism

2012-05-21

Sun on Sunday struggles to match News of the World's ad spend: down 25% compared to ex-News of the World

Tatiana Repkova | www.guardian.co.uk/media/ ... |

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European Union (=28), European Union - old (=15), Western Europe

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Image / Credibility / Perception / Reputation of Media / Journalism - Tabloid / Yellow / Sensationalist Press
Weekend / Saturday / Sunday Editions / Supplements
News Media Markets - Advertising / Marketing Communication

2012-05-21

Regional publisher Johnston Press is to relaunch three free newspapers as paid-for titles

Tatiana Repkova | www.holdthefrontpage.co.u ... |

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European Union (=28), European Union - old (=15), Western Europe

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Free Newspapers / Magazines / Media - Pick-Up Publications
Redesigning / Restructuring / Repositioning a Newspaper / Publication / Media

2012-05-21

The Newspaper Marketing Agency (NMA) changes its title to Newsworks: the national press provides news on a variety of platforms, not just in print

Tatiana Repkova | www.independent.co.uk/new ... |

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European Union (=28), European Union - old (=15), Western Europe

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Role of ICT - Old / Traditional Media vs New / Social Media - Future of the News / Journalism
New Media - Multimedia - Cross-Media Publishing - Convergence - Integrating / Separating Print & Online Operations - Digital Transformation

2012-05-21

Iran starts legal case against Reuters for a report falsely insinuating there was "the teaching of assassination and terrorism in Iran"

Tatiana Repkova | www.google.com/hostednews ... |

Iran, United Kingdom

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European Union (=28), European Union - old (=15), Middle East, Western Europe

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Legal Harassment of Media / Journalists
News Agencies - Wire Services
Covering / Reporting Terror / Violence / Rape / Bullying / Taking Hostages

2012-05-21

UN action plan offers strategy for protecting journalists

Tatiana Repkova | knightcenter.utexas.edu/b ... |

Protection and Safety of Journalists

2012-05-21

IAPA calls on the Venezuelan government to end its defamation campaign against the newspaper Notitarde

Tatiana Repkova | knightcenter.utexas.edu/b ... |

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Northern South America

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Civil Laws - Defamation - Libel & Slander
News Media Markets - Ownership & Investment

2012-05-21

BITKOM: TV sets which can be connected to the Internet are set to become standard in Germany

Tatiana Repkova | www.rapidtvnews.com/index ... |

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European Union (=28), European Union - old (=15), Western Europe

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Digital TV / Radio - Web TV - Internet Protocol TV (IPTV) - Internet TV - Webcast - Mobile TV - Smart TV - Connected TV - Live Streaming
Online / Digital / Mobile / Social Media Trends

2012-05-21

The Atavist, a platform to help produce multimedia storytelling for digital devices, publishes works of long-form journalism

Tatiana Repkova | www.nytimes.com/2012/05/2 ... |

United States of America

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Northern North America

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Feature Story - Long-Form / Short-Form / Slow / Literary Journalism
Specifics of Creating Online Content - Multimedia / Transmedia Reporting / Storytelling - Mobile Journalism (Mojo) - Real-Time / Instantaneous / Live Blogging - Live Streaming - Robots - Algorithms

2012-05-21

Pakistan blocks access to Twitter for promoting "a blasphemous cartoon contest" taking place on Facebook

Tatiana Repkova | www.nytimes.com/2012/05/2 ... |

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Freedom of Information - Access to Internet
Covering / Reporting Faith / Religion / Church - Blasphemy
Cartoons - Animated Editorial Cartoons - Comics
Social Media Generally - Social Websites / Networking - Social Journalism
Mobile Blogs / Moblogs - Microblogs - Twitter