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Millenials "will cause seismic shifts in the nation's financial sector," writes senior fellow Morley Winograd in a new study he co-authored with Michael Hais.
Read more about how Millenials could upend corporate America in the near future: http://bit.ly/1mLKcfd
Geneva Overholser's latest blog post about Jill Abramson, Dean Baquet, national-security reporting, and women in journalism:
http://communicationleadership.usc.edu/blog/an_early_read_on_baquet_as_new_york_times_leader.html
Informal Diplomacy Can Bring Results, Geoffrey Cowan Explains at Central European University in Budapest
CCLP director Geoffrey Cowan gave a talk at Central European University in Budapest on May 21 to discuss the famous "shirt-sleeves" summit at Sunnylands between US President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping, highlighting the diplomatic power of such informal meetings.
"Although the meeting between Obama and Jinping was not official, they did come to an important environmental agreement to phase out harmful hydrofluorocarbons (greenhouse gases)," reports CEU.
"There's something about the importance of this kind of informal meeting and maybe we don't do enough of it," said Cowan. "It's the 'gift of time' - to have the time and space to do things differently."
Read more >
Recycled Cartons Create Genius Desks That Double As Backpacks For Needy Kids In India
"Learning luxuries aren't available for many children attending school in India. Even something as simple as a desk is a beneficial tool millions of Indian children don't have the privilege of using in the world's second largest country.
But a chair to sit in and a hard surface to write on isn't just about comfort. Resting on dirt floors with hunched backs for several hours each day leads to disadvantaged eyesight, bad posture and poor handwriting.
That's why the team at Aarambh, a New Bombay-based nonprofit servicing marginalized families in urban slum and rural communities, created the Help Desk.
As seen in the video uploaded to DDB Worldwide's YouTube channel, Help Desks are made from discarded cartons from corporate housing, retail outlets and recyclers. Crafters stenciled out and cut the desk's design from a pattern, which also conveniently folds up into a briefcase-like school bag the student can use to carry his or her belongings."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/19/help-desk-india_n_5353948.html
Some 'data journalism' out there is just 'datum journalism':
I tweeted this a few days ago:
"OK, I need to write this: I'm getting depressed because of the abysmal quality of many pieces in the new #dataJournalism orgs."
Perhaps I was exaggerating, but I'm seeing too much shoddy stuff in websites like Vox.com and FiveThirtyEight. They do publish interesting stories, but a very visible portion of their output is dubious.
See also: "Can Data Be Fast and Stupid? Academics and data journalists discuss the quality (or lack thereof) of data journalism". Comic via http://xkcd.com/605/
WHY DIGITAL TOOLS ARE MISSING IN MOST NEWSROOMS
A fascinating report on digital innovation (or lack thereof) in newsrooms:
http://www.goatmustbefed.com/
"Many U.S. newsrooms are not taking advantage of the emerging low-cost digital tools that enable journalists to report and present their work in innovative ways. Editors and producers cling to familiar methods and practices even when they know better, more engaging digital alternatives are available, often for free."
"Journalism awards and well-attended conferences create a sense that the adoption of data reporting and digital tools is broader than it really is."
"The local newsrooms that have made smart use of digital tools have leaders who are willing to make difficult trade-offs in their coverage."
This map based on data from Wikipedia shows the words used most disproportionately to describe each state in the US. Pennsylvania is "chocolate." New Hampshire is "die." http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2014/05/wikipedia_map_chocolate_for_pennsylvania_die_for_new_hampshire_and_other.html
The Washington Monument reopens today! photo via The White House: https://twitter.com/WhiteHouse/status/465880149280710657/photo/1 Follow today's celebration on Twitter at #MonuMeet. Lots of beautiful photos!
CCLP director Geoffrey Cowan was recently honored with the 2014 Alumni Award from Choate Rosemary Hall. Congratulations, Geoff! "Geoff Cowan '60 is being honored for his distinguished career promoting the greater good through communications, including his influence in the fields of law and public policy, broadcasting and journalism, and the humanities and higher education."
Read Choate Rosemary Hall's profile of Cowan here. John F. Kennedy was the first recipient of the honor in 1958. Other distinguished recipients include Adlai Stevenson, Edward Albee, John dos Passos, and Hedrick Smith. This year's award is also going to humanitarian Amy Lehman, founder of the Lake Tanganyika Floating Health Clinic.
The world map redrawn not based on territories and treaties, but money and power. via Forbes
Social Media Are Undervalued in Counterterrorism
Social Media Are Undervalued in Counterterrorism
"• The war in Syria is creating "a new generation of globally-committed terrorists, similar to what resulted from the influx of violent extremists to Afghanistan in the 1980s."
• Africa is home to increasingly significant terrorist activity, as exemplified by Nigeria-based Boko Haram.
• Social media are proving to be valuable tools for terrorist groups' internal communication and for reaching larger audiences around the world."
Article by CCLP faculty fellow Philip Seib on the importance of social media in contuerterrorism. Read more at The Huffington Post.
Rising Temperatures
1991-2012 average temperature compared with 1901-1960 average
U.S. Climate Has Already Changed, Study Finds, Citing Heat and Floods
As Business Insider put it, “Watch America age 110 years in one gif.”
See more on the demographic transformation of The Next America here.
Yesterday's CCLP Washington forum discussed media and public diplomacy, including the popularity of "House of Cards" in China. Read more.
Today in Vienna, our senior fellow Geneva Overholser moderated an event on Open Journalism hosted by the OSCE.
The event is the first in "a series of meetings among experts, policymakers and regulators touching on the practice and terminology of Open Journalism, legal issues, accountability and regulatory challenges."
“Open journalism is characterized by its interactive, participative and networked features, which allow for a diverse range of perspectives at different levels in the news production process.”
Dr. Tarlach McGonagle, senior researcher for the Institute for Information Law at the University of Amsterdam
“At present there is no legal framework and no international standards regulating open journalism and user-generated content (UGC).
Barbara Trionfi, Press Freedom Manager, International Press Institute
Resources and contributions from the event's participants will be available at http://www.osce.org/event/open-journalism.
Beyond 'Screen Time:' What Minecraft Teaches Kids
"The best educational interventions are those that meet youth where they are and use the energy associated with that space to encourage learning.
So where are the youth? Minecraft."
Where Would You Live On This Amazing Map Of The Internet?
