Posted By:  Podnosh Posted On:  Jun 14, 2008	Is the British Government planning a new department of Digital Cleaners?
According to the FT the Culture Secretary, Andy Burnham, thinks he may be able to not just control product placement in TV programmes but also on the web!. To quote from Neville Hobson’s blog post (nice spot Neville) Andy Burnham, culture secretary, said the government had an...... [view]

Posted By:  Podnosh Posted On:  Jun 16, 2008	Journalism from the UK Parliament Twitter Stream
If you modestly define journalism as telling people what they need to know when they need to know it I think the various British Government twitter streams are getting into the swing of that. This on David Davis and his resignation as an MP from UKParliament (which uses its biog to...... [view]

Posted By:  qnp Posted On:  Jun 13, 2008	International AIDS Conference 2008
I am really excited for the International AIDS Conference ! I was at the conference when it was in Toronto in 2006 and it was such an amazing experience to hear everyone's struggles in battling HIV/AIDS . I look forward to checking out the resources on the youth site, and getting to...... [view]

Posted By:  Podnosh Posted On:  Jun 12, 2008	Environmental News Online blog: The Musical.
A cracking video made to promote a Birmingham blogging venture – Environmental News Online . The site has been run by a group of journalism students working with Paul Bradshaw at Birmingham City University. A month or so ago I helped in a session with the students to...... [view]

Posted By:  Podnosh Posted On:  Jun 2, 2008	Disguising the Lie - or how can your media network function as an effective team?
Anyone who reads this blog regularly will know that I have a periodic rant about integrity. That’s always a risky game, cos we’re all flawed when it comes to truth telling. If we were not then we’d struggle to get by in our complex social world. However here’s my...... [view]

Posted By:  yajitha Posted On:  Jun 1, 2008	Sri Lankan journalists: An extinct and unprotected species
By Satheesan Kumaaran   While the freedom of the press is a precious ingredient of a vibrant democracy, in most autocracies claiming to be democracies, journalists are casualties of the various conflicts they report on.  Sri Lanka is among the worst in this regard showing utter hostility,...... [view]

Posted By:  Podnosh Posted On:  May 21, 2008	Simon Berry’s Coca-Cola idea makes it onto the BBC iPM blog - interview here.
Remember this post earlier this week encouraging you lot to join Simon Berry in his campaign to get Coca Cola to start using it’s distribution network to save lives by transporting re-hydration tablets to remote areas of Africa. One in Five children in Africa die before they are 5...... [view]

Posted By:  SarahZaaimi Posted On:  May 17, 2008	“Information is holy, and Comment is Free”
25 Moroccan youth and 25 American youth met in the POMED and AID conference, “Find Your Voice: A Cross-Cultural Forum on Political Participation and Civic Activism”, which took place in The Moroccan Capital Rabat last Month. I was asked to share my experience as a young English-speaking...... [view]

Posted By:  yajitha Posted On:  May 16, 2008	The Island newspaper promotes pedophilia, sex and fellatio for children
The Island newspaper in Sri Lanka is already known for its Editorial blunders . Yesterday however, it sunk to a new low when it published the following in the children’s section of its daily edition (Page 2, The Happy Island ).  Click here for a larger image that places this...... [view]

Posted By:  onairedhews Posted On:  May 13, 2008	Slick Rock Student Film Festival
As we begin to wrap up the year, my students are treated to a great party that we call the Slick Rock Student Film Festival . Over the years, this festival has grown from around 30 entries to well over 200 videos from students all over California’s Central Valley. Instead of a few...... [view]

Posted By:  Podnosh Posted On:  May 7, 2008	Marc Reeves, The Birmingham Post and Five fine questions on blogging.
I love a blog post which asks a good question. This lunchtime the editor of the Birmingham Post, Marc Reeves, popped up five corkers as he wrote about how one of his guest (corrected thanks to Jon) bloggers had attracted a good chunk of derision from readers for this post and...... [view]

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