IFC Media Project: Season 2

From NAMLE: “Independent Film Channel’s The Media Project has launched its second season, hosted by Peabody- and Emmy Award-winning correspondent Gideon Yago (CBS, MTV). This season will cover topics on how the media shapes the American worldview. All the episodes of “season one” for The Media Project are now available on iTunes. The episodes for [...]

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LibraryNews: new resource: OpenJurist

Source: email from Samuel Deskin, OpenJurist.org.  I’ll add it to my Legal Research guide. Here is the introductory letter: Hello, I write to introduce OpenJurist.org.  We provide access to US Supreme Court and Federal Appellate opinions at no cost.  Our mission is to make access to the laws of United States more readily accessible to [...]

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RCFP: summary of Sotomayor decisions on the 1st Amend. & FOI

Source: Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, “Reporters Committee releases summary of Sotomayor decisions,” by RCFP, 5/27/09. The report focuses on decisions concerning the First Amendment and FOI. Here is the Report (pdf) Addendum: Here is LNAcademic‘s Sotomayor Bookmarks to opinions, newspaper articles, and law review articles.

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PEJ: Swine flu coverage

Source: Journalism.org / Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism, “Swine flu coverage around the world,” 5/28/09. PEJ just released a report that looks at the following questions: How did coverage in the U.S. compare to media in other countries, both in the level of coverage and the way it was framed? How did [...]

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Reuters.com: Time Warner & AOL to separate

Source: Reuters.com, “Time Warner to separate AOL near year end,” by Paul Tomasch. Reports that the separation was approved by the TW board & awaits regulatory approval.

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Ragan.com: NewsCred

Source: Ragan / PR Junkie, “Web site lets readers rank credibility of news stories and journalists,” by Michael Sebastian. Blogger Sebastian introduces NewsCred; he and readers consider the criteria.

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NYT: Cigarettes in pop films are criticized

Source: NYTimes.com, “Cigarettes in Popular films are target of groups,” by Brooks Barnes, 5/27/09. The campaign is from the, “advocacy arm of the American Medical Association.”  One of the films criticized is X-men orgins: Wolverine.  Take a look at moviesmokingscorecard.com.

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Macfound.org: Award for International Justice

Source: MacArthur Foundation, “Justice Richard Goldstone receives MacArthur Award for International Justice,” 5/25/09. According to the post, Justice Richard Golstone is the, “former Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunals for Rwanda & the former Yugoslavia…”  Here is a quote from his acceptance speech: I am delighted that the MacArthur Award recognizes the centrality in the [...]

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CMO: Newsletter 3/09

The China Media Observatory has posted its newsletter Nr. 3/09 (pdf).  Here is the newsletter page. Contents: The Chinese Telecommunication Industry SNS Development in China Chinese Media at a Glance: News from China Events, Conferences and Books about China

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MIT World: The Future of Science Journalism

From the About the Lectue: Susan Hockfield states that science journalism “is now, and in the decades ahead, absolutely indispensable.” As we confront global warming and health pandemics, science reporting must be sustained, Hockfield says, “in its rightful place, at the top of the profession and in the thick of the national conversation.” But dismal [...]

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strategy+business: LexisNexis is winning

Source: strategy+business, “How LexisNexis is winning on the web,” by Russ Mitchell, 5/19/09. Mitchell interviews CEO Andrew Prozes on the LN business model. Helps that LN works well with librarians!

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paidContent: Apple wants an EU-wide copyright

Source: paidContent, “Apple wants single EU-Wide copyright, iTunes license,” by Robert Andrews, 5/26/09. From the lead: Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has called for a Europe-wide copyright to be created so that it can offer iTunes Store more easily in eastern Europe and other countries. The proposal, which it says is “as opposed to the current country-by-country [...]

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Guardian.co.uk: Will the newspaper die in Philly?

Source: Guardian.co.uk, “Will Philadelphia be the place where the American newspaper dies?: The Inquirer and the Daily News are both bankrupt, and the prospect of a US city losing all its print news seems imminent.  But the demise of the old media will create a terrifying void that the internet simply cannot fill, “ by [...]

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Cannes: Campion’s Bright Star (Keats biopic) & Gilliam’s Imaginarium

Source: Guardian.co.uk/ Culture / Film, “Bright Star”[overview]. An overview of Jane Campion’s Bright Star.  Finally a movie for Junkets, one of my favorite poets (along with Shelley, Rilke & Dante). I’ll look forward to seeing it.  See, too, the Related articles. Finally, check out the production scrapbook — very nifty. & for something completely different, [...]

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MDN: Congress & Minority Radio Bailout

Source: MediaDailyNews, “Congressional Dems want minority radio bailout,” by Erik Sass, 5/21/09. Bailout means loans.  I saw no reference to the letter by House Rep. Clyburn on his site (6th District of SC).

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PoynterOnline: Scribd.com

Source: PoynterOnline, “Journalists turn to scribd.com as profitable publishing platform,” by Mallary Jean Tenore, 5/26/09. From the 2nd paragraph: …some journalists, though, are finding pockets of profit elsewhere, realizing that the path to preserving their skills may not involve a news organization. One place they’re turning to is Scribd.com, a site that invites journalists to [...]

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FAIR: NYC Grassroots Media Conference

Details on the conference from the alert: Join FAIR at the NYC Grassroots Media Conference The 6th Annual NYC Grassroots Media Conference Hope to Action Saturday May 30th 2009 9 am-6 pm Hunter College, North Building 69th Street and Lexington Ave Since 2004, the annual NYC Grassroots Media Conferences feature workshops, skills-sharing, dialogue, debate and [...]

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BarackObama.com: Introducing Judge Sotomayor

Intro from President Obama’s network: Judge Sotomayor has made the American dream her own. Born and raised in a South Bronx public housing project to Puerto Rican parents, Sotomayor has distinguished herself in academia, as a big-city prosecutor, and as a leading figure on the federal bench. If confirmed, Judge Sotomayor would start with more [...]

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MIT World: Global Media

From About the Lecture: “Just as digital technology has expanded the means of producing media, so has it increased the geographic range new media may travel. Locally generated content can zip around the world in a heartbeat. But, says moderator Henry Jenkins, ‘as a society we’re in a contradictory state in terms of having greater [...]

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MDN: AP offers buyouts to 363 staffers

Source: MediaDailyNews, “AP offers buyouts to 363 staffers,” by Erik Sass, 5/21/09. Sign of the times.

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