By Daphna Baram After a few strong and busy months of news, there’s always a slow one. The reasons for it are not always lack of news happening. Sometimes we are looking at the weeks ahead, making sure we have correspondents in all of our “forward planning” spots, securing feed points and sorting out insurance …
Monthly Archive: March 2012
Mar 19 2012
Small Fish, Big News
International news are normally associated with the domain of the big global news organisations – BBC, CNN, Al-Jazeera – flashy brand “idents” and anchors in suits speaking directly to correspondents on the ground. When it comes to local media and regional television and radio broadcasters, the assumption is that they should stick to affairs nearer …
Mar 13 2012
In the Company of Women
Last week, on International Women’s Day, Reuters hosted an event at their headquarters in Canary Wharf, London, to celebrate the publication of No Women Land – On The Frontline With Female Reporters. The discussion was chaired by the BBC’s Lyse Doucet, on behalf of the International News Safety Institute (INSI) with Sarah Whitehead (Head of …
Mar 05 2012
Real Journalism is Alive and Kicking
A group called Matter has illuminated a fascinating fact about journalism in our time this week. The San Francisco based group has posted a project on kickstarter.com, a website which enables entrepreneurs to raise money from the public. Matter asked to raise $50,000 for publishing a weekly “single piece of top-tier long-form journalism about big …