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“I’m not scared,” [Le Anh Hung] says, “I know what I choose to do is risky but I accept the fight.”
Activists in Southeast Asia blog their dissent against the government with their personal safety on the line. TIME reports on the region's crackdown on internet freedom amidst political uprisings.
"To make government accountable, people have to know the facts. But prying secrets out of Washington is hard. FOIA Machine can help."
The Freedom of Information Act Machine is "like TurboTax for government records," states its Kickstarter page. Produced alongside the Center for Investigative Reporting and a handful of experienced journalists and technicians, it is the much-needed answer to simplifying the complicated process behind accessing public records. Anyone can use it. Already 800 reporters have shown their support and are awaiting its launch. [TechCrunch]
The majority exalts the interests of the government while unduly trampling those of the press, and in doing so, severely impinges on the press and the free flow of information in our society.
Judge Roger Gregory dissented against the federal appeals court's ruling that James Risen, veteran reporter for New York Times, has to testify against his source in the trial of a former C.I.A. charged with disclosing classified information. A pivotal and harmful moment for investigative reporting--what protection do journalists have? [NYT]
"Enter the 2013 Millennial Impact Report, which reveals that Millennials aren’t interested in structures, institutions, and organizations, but rather in the people they help and the issues they support."
Achieve released the 2013 Millennial Impact Report. The report narrows in on Millennial attitudes towards social change, focusing on how organizations can reach out to the Millennial audience. Huffpost outlines some key takeaways. Â
Nieman Journalism Lab's Ken Doctor takes a look at what's been happening in the world of news so far and makes predictions on what to expect for the rest of this year.
"[Al Jazeera America] could transform the way we see news and the way we think about it. But, then again, it could be a disaster in almost every sense of the word." --Christopher Dickey in NewsweekÂ
Al Jazeera America is coming to American televisions on August 20th. The big question is: Can this Middle East broadcast bigshot overcome the building skepticism of its neutrality and win over the American audience? Take a look at New York Magazine's in-depth feature on Al Jazeera America's development.Â
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The Twitter Dress--This wearable display, created by a partnership between Crossing Boarders, Deportivo and Comviq, flashed tweets from the otherwise unrepresented Swedish youth at political summit, Almedalen Week.Â
NYTimes project--"Watching Syria's War"--offers coverage through a compilation of citizen-captured videos and blurbs separating "What We Know" and "What We Don't Know". MediaShift interviews editor Liam Stack:
"...we may not know what happened to the survivors after the camera was turned off, but without citizen video we might never know that a bustling civilian neighborhood was hit with a missile at all."
Instagram photo uploaded by daughter of Defense Attorney, Don West led to an inquiry.
"Like it or not, when it comes to Facebook and social media, it may not just be Big Brother watching you, but your friendly neighborhood criminal defense attorney."Â -David Hill, Orlando criminal defense attorney
Huffpost looks at social media in the Zimmerman trial and its developing presence in law.Â
Fastco presents an interesting side-by-side comparison of which type of media breaks news the fastest--social media or traditional media.Â
"The social media activity around the San Francisco crash was particularly striking because the traditional media could not immediately reach the site in the middle of a runway."
USA Today covers twitter updates from passengers on the Asiana Airline crash and explains how their use of social media help us to understand its greater importance.Â
"Apolitical, perhaps even post-political, they do what they do because they have come to their own conclusions in their own time and in their own way."
Bonnie Greer describes the Libertarian Millennial, a new breed of Snowden-like Millennials, whose self-belief will change the world.Â
Have the American youth lost interest in cars? Shrink That Footprint reports on the changes in travel patterns.Â
Fastco features Greenbean Recycle. The project, created by Shanker Sahai, turns recycling into a fun, easy and competitive process. His machines, or rather “social recycling platforms” (as they are called on the Greenbean Recycle website), are available for now at MIT, Harvard, Northeastern, Tufts and Brandeis.
Huffpo's Micah Halpern writes: "Yes, the unrest is about a failed leader and his failed economy, but the revolt is a young peoples' absolute rejection of a leadership that has done nothing to advance young peoples' futures or improve their lives."
Whether written by activists or journalists, agendas are always present
Policymic reasons that the divide between journalist and activist isn’t as definite as the 'subjective vs. objective' argument David Carr makes in his NYTimes article. Both are must-reads in the pressing debate of how we define a journalist.
I think people are understanding that the people who are capturing this stuff in the right place at the right time are giving us something incredibly valuable...They are giving us the first images or first information from the scene and we need to work out how to respect those people.
Fergus Bell, social media and UGC editor at AP, discusses important standards for user-generated content, as citizen journalism becomes a prominent source of information. Safety first, he emphasizes.