Draft concept for WJR press pass

24 October 2011 //
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Current press passes do not feature web2 connectivity or interactivity, which may assist news media increase transparency and promote accountability.

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NEWS DRAFT

Global press passes may be a first step towards restoring news media credibility, badly damaged in scandals spreading across the world from London and Delhi.

“With freedom comes responsibility, and the time has come for journalists to reclaim their profession and fight news media corruption”, says WJR editor Jason Brown.

The WJR draft concept proposes an open-source style, web2 profile accompany each press pass, guaranteeing instant transparency and public accountability.

Working title for this draft concept is the WJR Global Press Pass.

Brown says the concept needs wide advice and fine tuning to get to the next stage or beta phase.

He plans to ask volunteer members of JiCC, the Journalism in Crisis Coalition, to raise awareness and promote industry and public feedback in a global drafting process.

“Mashable online content means web2 transparency and crowd-sourced accountability in real-time, using real-people, real-world skills as basic as email, or … whatever, basically.”

News media now include independent freelancers, professional mainstream reporters and editors, citizen journalists, public relations officials and NGO communications workers.

“And, less happily, propagandists masquerading as fair and balanced news reporters.”

WJR and JiCC assume as founding positions that the Global Journalism Crisis predates the Global Financial Crisis.

Collapsing ethics and editorial firewalls across mainstream media since the Watergate era leave the news media open to criticism that they failed as a profession, and an industry, to expose global corruption including the sub-prime meltdown and the so-called War on Terror.

“If we want to be taken seriously as the Fourth Estate, journalists must step up and hold themselves answerable to codes of ethic, backed up with industry codes of conduct, independent ombudsmen, and other media accountability systems.”

“A WJR Press Pass will use open-source web2 approaches and advanced transparency concepts to compile a global register, starting with journalists adhering to national, regional and international codes of ethics.”

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Today’s headlines from WJR

23 October 2011 //
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Behind the headlines: Afghanistan has been a conflict zone for decades, with journalists paying a high price for reporting from frontlines.

HEADLINES

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News tools

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NEWS PREVIEWS

Saratoga Film Forum features documentary about future of journalism

The Saratogian
SARATOGA SPRINGS — The documentary “Page One: A Year Inside the New York Times” will be shown by the Saratoga Film Forum at 7:30 pm Thursday, Oct. 27, immediately followed by a panel discussion with Saratogian Managing Editor Barbara …

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First Look: Clark Kent, Lois Lane Discuss the Future of Journalism

Wall Street Journal (blog)
By Michelle Kung In issue No.2 of the relaunched Superman series from DC Comics, Lois Lane and Clark Kent discuss the future of journalism, now that she’s an executive and on the paper’s masthead. Here’s a sneak peak: We welcome thoughtful comments …

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Diego Della Valle

Forbes
Many fantastic views now [on the future of media] in one year will be wrong, and many things we don’t know about now will be coming. It is a big revolution." Della Valle took his first stake in Saks Fifth Avenue, of 5 percent, in 2008 but saw his real …

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The Guardian
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Pulitzer winner Schultz to speak at Women & Girls Funds event

TheDay.com
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Murdochs’ Infighting Clouds Future of News Corp 

CNBC
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The curse of yellow journalism in Pakistan

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The Vision – Initiative on the Future of Journalism

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Trinidad Guardian –
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Pay wall apps versus free speech

16 May 2011 //
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COMMENT

A decade and a half on from WWW becoming the second or third internet ‘app’, debate about the future of journalism remains clogged with nattering and chattering about the glorious advantages of ever changing digital platforms.

After email and bulletin board chat, the WWW supposedly heralded a brave new era in global journalism.

From 1996, however, journalism employment levels continued to drop, with the 2007 Global Financial Crisis only accelerating job loss.

The news commentariat continues to examine use of the latest applications – such as those for the iPad – breathlessly extolling their digi-virtue, as with this piece, from a site called AppStorm.

Along with the digital drooling, AppStorm also raises a note of caution, emphasis added.

Content has to be paid for, and everything in the world cannot be sponsored entirely by ads. However, as more of our media goes digital, it seems a pity to lock it into proprietary formats that you own less than ever before. After all, is speech truly free if it’s locked behind paywalls and DRM?

Rather than answer the question, the writer buries it at the bottom of the story. But it does signal a more sceptical view of digital apps being the answer to a huge crisis facing the public and their right to know about the world around them.

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5,000 new media startups – can one save local news? | SF Public Press

13 May 2011 //
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Ten years ago, only the coffee was the same.

“Only a shadow of the former news staff at the San Francisco Chronicle remains, while the company’s iconic building at the corner of Fifth and Mission is filling up with new tenants, most working for tech startups.”

via 5,000 new media startups – can one save local news? | SF Public Press.

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Secret jury as Wikileaks founder gets medal

12 May 2011 //
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Reuters photo | Julian Assange | Sydney Gold Medal for Peace

Wikileaks editor Julian Assange is one of four people to get the Sydney Gold Medal for Peace during its 14 year history

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NEWS

Freedom of expression supporters looking for easy story lines in the ongoing Wikileaks saga have some untangling to do.

Soon after Assange was awarded a gold medal prize for peace from the University of Sydney, Australia, a grand jury was being called in the United States. Just to mix things up further, debate was already under way over the threat by Wikileaks to sue staff who leaked information, with fines of US$20 million.

OpEdNews quotes National Public Radio:

“The WikiLeaks case is part of a much broader campaign by the Obama administration to crack down on leakers,” writes Carrie Johnson of NPR. Johnson is one of a few reporters in the US press who has published a report today on this stirring development in the United States. She finds “national security experts” cannot “remember a time when the Justice Department has pursued so many criminal cases based on leaks of government secrets.”

Amid the hubbub, United Press International quoted the big picture:

“Instead of demonizing an Australian citizen who has broken no law, the Australian government must stop shoring up Washington’s efforts to behave like a totalitarian state. The treatment of alleged whistle-blower [U.S. Army Pvt.] Bradley Manning confirms a U.S. administration at odds with their commitment to universal human rights and intent on militaristic bullying.”

Assange is a journalist not afraid of big targets, inside or outside the media. Accepting the peace prize, Assange attacked The Guardian and New York Times newspapers for leaking information about Wikileaks. Earlier this month, Assange accused Facebook of being an “appalling spy machine” for the Central Intelligence Agency.

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Innocence project professor pushed

12 May 2011 //
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NEWS

A university journalism course that won worldwide fame for investigating the innocence of death row and other inmates is now under attack for lapses in ethics, with its popular professor apparently pushed into permanent leave.

“Few, if any, of the incidents identified by critics involve blatant violations of the law or journalism ethics. Still, the tactics are controversial enough that knowledge of their use may raise questions about nearly 20 years of groundbreaking work. Reporting by Protess and his students, gathered during the Investigative Journalism class and then published or shared with attorneys in the legal case, has helped free 12 innocent men from prison, including five from death row, since the early ‘90s.”

Meanwhile, in Thailand, another professor faces charges of lèse majesté.

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Australia dumps more journo jobs

12 May 2011 //
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NEWS

Nearly six dozen sub-editor jobs will be cut from leading newspaper titles in Australia, confirms Fairfax, one of the country’s major media groups.

News of the 89 jobs loss came earlier in reports, like that from Crikey, warning of industrial action.

“You’d have to expect an almighty shitfight. It’s beyond belief, we didn’t see this coming at all,” one senior Age editorial staffer told the site.

IF so, they haven’t been keeping an eye on the headlines, like this one, on the same subject, dating back to 2008. Fairfax is one of four main groups who own Australian Associated Press, which in turn operates Pagemasters, a sub-editing hub.

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News media coverage of job losses:

Australia: Fairfax Media demands far-reaching job cuts
Sub-editors in denial as reality bites Fairfax
Fairfax job cuts part of paper ‘death throes’
Pagemasters founder hits out at critics

‎‎Wikipedia links on media ownership:

Media ownership in Australia
Media ownership in Canada
Media cross-ownership in the United States
Concentration of media ownership

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China not immune to journalism crisis

12 May 2011 //
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NEWS

“Working conditions and low pay force journalists out of industry” sounds like a worldwide experience but in this case forms part of the monthly IFJ review on news media in China.

This contradicts some estimates that China and its fast growing economy are among the few not affected by the Global Journalism Crisis. The headlines:

1. New Office to Tighten Grip on Internet
2. IFJ Urges Action to Find Journalists Missing in China
3. Propaganda Department Silences Labor Rights Case
4. Scholar Threatened After Publishing Article Critical of Mao Zedong
5. Tibet Documentary Barred from Broadcast, Copies Seized
6. Hong Kong Journalists Self-Censoring, Public Believes
7. Working Conditions, Low Pay, Force Journalists Out of Industry
8. Transport Giant Threatens Media in Hong Kong

via IFJ Press Freedom in China Campaign Bulletin – May 2011 – IFEX.

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Less journalism equals fewer jobs

12 May 2011 //
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Americans vastly overestimate spending on foreign affairs spending - by 25 times

Economic costs of less world journalism = less awareness = less spending = fewer jobs.

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NEWS

Thinking local does not equal acting global, not when it comes to America media, points out the US Society for Professional Journalists, on it’s International Journalism Committee blog, Journalism and the World.

“According to a survey by Program on International Policy Attitudes PIPA at the University of Maryland late last year the American people think the U.S. spends 25 percent [of the government budget] on foreign affairs.The public thinks 5 percent is the about the right amount.The real number is ABOUT 1 PERCENT.”

SPJ-IJC has more: hard economic figures on what foreign relations earns, including how many jobs created, using visa figures from Bolivia as an example. In an industry floundering for new “business models”, SPJ observes there is a cost in cutting world reporting – an uninformed public unaware of the real sums spent and earned in their interest.

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One million missing local stories

12 May 2011 //
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local journalism losses in san francisco area

Journalism losses in San Francisco area mirror those across America

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NEWS

San Francisco Public Press released its spring quarterly issue 11 May, focusing on the ongoing journalism crisis, and pointing out what that means for news coverage.

“Since 2000, metro newspapers across the country have laid off an estimated 14,000 (out of 56,400) editors and reporters — a number that does not include journalists working for wire services, weekly newspapers or other media …”

Jeremy Adam Smith further estimates this means a million stories missing from public knowledge, for 2010 alone. Local governments are operating with less public scrutiny than any time in living memory, he says.

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