Here are the recipients of the 69th Annual Peabody Awards. “The intent of the Peabody Awards is to recognize the most outstanding achievements in electronic media, including radio, television and cable.”
Archive for March, 2010
Peabody Awards announced
Posted in Culture and Communications, InfoTech, Radio, Television on March 31, 2010 | Comments Off
Online Media Daily: Digital Due Process organization to promote privacy protections
Posted in Communications Management &Design, Culture and Communications, InfoTech, Integrated Marketing Communications, Journalism, Legal Studies, Media Literacy, Public Relations, Radio, Television on March 31, 2010 | Comments Off
Davis, W. (2010, March 31). Industry Coalition Urges Congress To Update 24-Year-Old Electronic Privacy Act 03/31/2010. MediaPost Publications. Retrieved March 31, 2010, from http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=125251&nid=112771 Covers a newly formed coalition — Digital Due Process – that are, “calling on Congress to enact new online privacy protections.”
Adage.com: AAF: FTC power grab hidden in Finance-Reg bill
Posted in Communications Management &Design, Integrated Marketing Communications, Legal Studies, Public Relations on March 31, 2010 | Comments Off
Bush, M. (2010, March 30). AAF: FTC Power Grab Hidden in Finance-Regulation Bill – Advertising Age – News. Advertising Age. Retrieved March 31, 2010, from http://adage.com/article?article_id=143055 Reporter Bush points to H.R. 4173 “Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2009″ in OpenCongress.org (not sure where the issue is “buried” though). Here is his lead: [...]
CHE: Journalism education in the Arab World
Posted in Culture and Communications, Journalism, Media Literacy, Public Relations on March 31, 2010 | Comments Off
Martin, J. (2010, March 28). Journalism Education in the Arab World. The Chronicle Review. Retrieved March 31, 2010, from http://chronicle.com The article examines the growth of satellite campuses in the Arab world and the issues that result. An excerpt: The emergence of various Western-inspired journalism programs in Arab countries is part of a larger trend [...]
IC News Release: Naomi Klein brings ‘Shock Doctrine’ to Ithaca
Posted in Conferences &Events, Culture and Communications, Journalism on March 30, 2010 | Comments Off
From the Office of Media Relations, News Release, 3/24/10. Search form Naomi Klein @ IC Library. Naomi Klein Brings ‘Shock Doctrine’ to Ithaca College ITHACA, NY — Naomi Klein, an award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist and author of “The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism,” will speak at Ithaca College on Wednesday, April 7. Sponsored [...]
UTNE: Nominees for the 2010 Utne Independent Press Award
Posted in Indymedia, Journalism on March 30, 2010 | Comments Off
Nominees for the 2010 Utne Independent Press Awards. (2010, June). UTNE Reader. Retrieved March 30, 2010, from http://www.utne.com/Media/Nominees-2010-Utne-Independent-Press-Awards.aspx?utm_content=03.29.10+Environment&utm_campaign=Emerging+Ideas-Every+Day&utm_source=iPost&utm_medium=email Lists nominees.
CHE: UWIRE resumes
Posted in Culture and Communications, Indymedia, Journalism, Library News on March 30, 2010 | Comments Off
Parry, M. (2010, March 29). UWIRE College-Media Aggregator Will Resume Publishing – Wired Campus – The Chronicle of Higher Education. Chronicle.com. Retrieved March 30, 2010, from http://chronicle.com/blogPost/UWIRE-College-Media-Aggregator/22132/?sid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en Important news about UWIRE.
CJR: Stiglitz, Wolf, Pearlstein, Huffington: Media & Economics Conference, April 6
Posted in Conferences &Events, Indymedia, Journalism on March 26, 2010 | Comments Off
From the CJR: Dear reader, If you are in the New York area on Tuesday, April 6, you might find this event of interest. The Audit, the online business desk of the Columbia Journalism Review, is a co-sponsor. the editors Stiglitz, Wolf, Pearlstein, Huffington: Media & Economics Conference, April 6 Journalists are under intense pressure [...]
Digital Nation event at the Paley Center (NYC – $25 for general public)
Posted in Communications Management &Design, Culture and Communications, Indymedia, InfoTech, Integrated Marketing Communications, Journalism, Media Literacy, Public Relations, Radio, Television on March 24, 2010 | Comments Off
From the Paley Center: Digital Nation at the Paley Center Crowd Computing: Hive Mind or Digital Mob? Tuesday, April 13 at 7:00 pm In Person: Douglas Rushkoff, Author, Commentator, and Correspondent for PBS FRONTLINE RU Sirius, Cofounder, Mondo2000; Editor, H+ magazine Sherry Turkle, Director, MIT Initiative on Technology and Self Amy Bruckman, Associate Professor, Electronic [...]
Congrats to Izzy Award winner Jeremy Scahill
Posted in Indymedia, Journalism, Public Relations, Radio, Television on March 24, 2010 | Comments Off
Congratulations to Jeremy Scahill!! Here is his book: Blackwater : the rise of the world’s most powerful mercenary army THE PRESS RELEASE: INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALIST JEREMY SCAHILL WINS IZZY AWARD FOR INDEPENDENT MEDIA ITHACA, NY — The Park Center for Independent Media (PCIM) at Ithaca College has announced that its second annual Izzy Award for special [...]
MediaDailyNews: Court lifts stay on cross-ownership rule change
Posted in Journalism, Legal Studies, Radio, Television on March 24, 2010 | Comments Off
Sass, E. (2010, March 24). Court Lifts Stay on Cross-Ownership Rule Change. MediaDailyNews. Retrieved March 24, 2010, from http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=124852&nid=112520 Sass explains what this all means & why it is important.
MIT World: The Future of Civic Engagement in a Broadband-Enabled World
Posted in Communications Management &Design, Culture and Communications, Indymedia, InfoTech, Integrated Marketing Communications, Journalism, Legal Studies, Public Relations, Radio, Television on March 24, 2010 | Comments Off
From MIT World, “March 1, 2010, The digital revolution that brought us Facebook, Twitter and YouTube could help revive participatory democracy in the U.S., says Eugene J. Huang. He unveils the FCC’s plan for providing broadband access to every American, and describes how its recommendations could spur more open government and greater civic engagement. SPEAKER [...]
Adage: SXSW: why marketers and media companies love ‘indie’
Posted in Indymedia, Integrated Marketing Communications on March 23, 2010 | Comments Off
Dumenco, S. (2010, March 22). SXSW: Why Marketers and Media Companies Love ‘Indie’. Adage.com. Retrieved March 23, 2010, from http://adage.com/mediaworks/article?article_id=142866 What is indy anyway?
NYT: C-span puts full archives on the web
Posted in Culture and Communications, Legal Studies, Public Relations, Television on March 23, 2010 | Comments Off
Stelter, B. (2010, March 16). C-Span Puts Full Archives on the Web. The New York Times. Retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/16/arts/television/16cspan.html Here is the archives: http://www.c-spanvideo.org/videoLibrary/ Thank you C-SPAN!!
HBR.org: Anti-Creativity Checklist
Posted in Communications Management &Design, Integrated Marketing Communications, Public Relations on March 23, 2010 | Comments Off
Moon, Y. (2010, March 18). The Anti-Creativity Checklist. Harvard Business Review. Retrieved March 23, 2010, from http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2010/03/the_anticreativity_checklist.html more about “Anti-Creativity Checklist“, posted with vodpod
paidContent: FCC may open public-safety spectrum for commercial purposes
Posted in InfoTech, Legal Studies, Television on March 23, 2010 | Comments Off
Duryee, T. (2010, March 19). FCC May Open Public-Safety Spectrum Block For Commercial Purposes. paidContent. Retrieved March 23, 2010, from http://paidcontent.org/article/419-fcc-may-open-public-safety-spectrum-block-for-commercial-purposes/ Excerpt: An auction would help T-Mobile USA, which doesn’t have the capacity on its current networks to roll out 4G services, like its major rivals AT&T (NYSE: T) and Verizon Wireless.
MediaDailyNews: Amanapour exits CNN’s global post for ABC’s ‘Week’
Posted in Journalism, Television on March 23, 2010 | Comments Off
Siegel, F. (2010, March 19). Amanpour Exits CNN’s Global Post For ABC’s ‘Week’. MediaPost Publications. Retrieved March 23, 2010, from http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=124658&nid=112427 She replaces George Stephanopoulos who is now on Good Morning America.
NYT: Tobacco rule proposed in ’95 to go into effect
Posted in Legal Studies on March 23, 2010 | Comments Off
Harris, G. (2010, March 18). Tobacco Rule Proposed in ’95 to Go Into Effect. The New York Times. Retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/19/health/policy/19tobacco.html?bl The lead: WASHINGTON — Fifteen years after the Food and Drug Administration first proposed banning the sale and marketing of tobacco products to teenagers, top government officials announced Thursday that they would finally put [...]
LA Times: e-model for journalism in Seattle
Posted in Indymedia, Journalism on March 23, 2010 | Comments Off
Rainey, J. (2010, March 20). An e-model for journalism in Seattle – latimes.com. LATimes.com. Retrieved March 23, 2010, from http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-onthemedia20-2010mar20%2C0%2C3328672.column An excerpt: It’s difficult to extrapolate from Seattle to other cities, in part because the long-dominant Seattle Times still survives here. But the PI and Seattle find themselves in an extreme case of the broadening [...]
RCFP: NEW ISSUE: The News Media And The Law, Winter 2010
Posted in Indymedia, Journalism, Legal Studies on March 12, 2010 | Comments Off
Here is the link to the new issue of The News Media and the Law, Winter 2010