How the Internet defeated Seymour Hersh

The simultaneous fall of the Murdoch and Berlusconi media empires – symbolic of an epoch – is not a coincidence but part of a deep global change in which the exponential growth of horizontal communication networks plays a central role. In this global epoch, despite the thin line between new democratic opportunities and the old threats of control, unforeseen democratic movements are demanding a new kind of democracy.

Media, Culture & Society

This commentary considers citizen journalism emerging from the Syrian Civil War and argues that its usefulness is dependent on an "interpreter tier" of user-generated media analysts. In contrast to discourse celebrating more direct forms of citizen journalism, the piece emphasizes the importance of intermediary layers of meaning-making as the means by which complex fields of amateur information can be made intelligible. This "interpreter tier," although often ignored in popular and scholarly discourse, takes on an increasingly important function as mainstream sources must increasingly rely on citizen materials produced in far off places.

2009

Foreign correspondence in transition

2007

David E. Kaplan, an investigative journalist and media consultant, drafted this report based on a survey Kaplan conducted for CIMA, as well as interviews and research he carried out. A related event was held on January 16, 2008 addressing the growth of investigative journalism centers worldwide.

Recent major leaks of documents and data have seen new approaches to investigative journalism develop. Collaboration across countries and across organisations has been necessary to share the scale of the investigation, share expertise, and coordinate publication to maximise impact. This new model of collaboration, in an industry otherwise focused on exclusivity, indicates ways of adapting to technological, business and political change to strengthen accountability journalism at a time when it is under pressure from multiple directions. This book is a collection of essays from some of those closely involved in developing new models of collaboration in investigative journalism. It offers lessons from some of the recent major investigations, like The Panama and Paradise Papers and Edward Snowden's NSA fi les, and a framework for others seeking to mount major collaborative investigations in future.

2011

Unfortunately, on returning from Ramallah to London, flying via the obligatory Amman as a Palestinian living in the West Bank, I encountered a new form of incarceration as we went through Israeli airspace which I might call, ‘plane arrest’.

INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM: DEAD OR ALIVE, 2011

Daniel Ruiz examines the way in which investigative journalism focusing on drug trafficking in West Africa has helped inspire national and international efforts to combat the crime

The age ofcommunications and informatics has arrived with many challenges for all professions. In the case of journalism, the adoption of information technology has led to a significant change in the Digital Media and a change in the way in which the individuals receive news and gave them a room to express their views without any kind of barriers . In our rapidly evolving society, now more people go to the computer to look for news of their friends and to read the latest weather news. It is because the explosion caused by social media, smart phones, technology has become the primary source to get the information where the mission of reporters has been changed from providing information, to data processing . Today the digital news pattern allows us to have a better understanding of the world through texts, graphics and multimedia. News has also become enriched by links of hypermedia connected to unlimited sources of information. These links strengthen news backgrounds as an essential feature for the news to remain for long. Journalist the past did not have space to re-state the backgrounds every time, but the links could refer the reader to what is missing. So under the themeof journalism in the digital era, this paper discuss a unique issue about the nature of modern news by studying the major factors that built up the new features of news. With the vast advancement in the field of communication and compute, the convergence between both of them, with the vast evolution of the internet that becomes more dynamic, and in the presence of citizen journalism, the news techniques have been more affected in different ways. There is a new typeof news has been produced depending on the evolution of collection, analysis and publishing of data. There have been other factors that modernized the news techniques including: the web 2.0 applications, the creative commons license, tools of user generated content, the news aggregator, systems, pinging and trackback systems, push and collection systems, editing and modifying tools and sharing of news tools , all will be discussed. The paper is trying to know the limits of editing techniques of news in the digital age, along with reviewing the various technologies that affect this area, the availability of these technologies, and the proper use of them, etc.