Journalism, the World and the Future
Discussion of the future of journalism from GMU
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dkubiske
Freelance journalist currently living in Brazil. Taught journalism at Mason 2006-2008. And am still interested in helping new journalists understand the importance of looking at how global and local events are linked.
Homepage: http://worldjournalism.wordpress.com
Google and other online services regularly gets requests to provide information about users or to take items off their servers. Google, however, has decided to release information about where these requests are coming from. This month Google has started to publicize what countries have asked to have material taken down. The number one country with […]
Several years ago I wrote a piece for my students to remind them that they should not blindly trust spell check. A publishing house in Australia is learning that lesson the hard way. Hot water over spell check PENGUIN Group Australia turns over $120 million a year from printing words but a one-word misprint has […]
Media affairs intern for the Iraqi embassy in Washington, DC. Click here for details.
The Beeb has a great program — Over to You — that is about the state of media around the world. This weekend they had a story about the changes in Zimbabwe. In Zimbabwe there is only state-run broadcasting. This year the government created the Zimbabwe Media Commission with the declared intention to promote and […]
So far the most I have seen on the reporting about how the volcanic ash cloud is affecting European travel has focused on just European travel. There have been a few comments about how the airline groundings have affected flights to/from the States but I have yet to see any stories about what the groundings […]
