March 18, 2007
The EU-funded project 'Adequate Information Management in Europe (AIM)' investigates how EU news is covered in different European states and analyses the mass-media's impact on the emergence (or non-emergence) of a 'European public sphere'. Eleven research institutes participated in the...
March 13, 2007
Some of our students; listening the editorial discussion so intently... Last Thursday we paid a visit to Doğan Media Center and talk to the editors of Turkish Daily News and Referans. This was a field trip for MED 316...
March 11, 2007
"A secret military document that was uncovered by weekly newsmagazine Nokta labeling some media organs and journalists as being for or against the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) according to the content of the news they publish about the TSK interestingly...
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March 09, 2007
Here is a list of journalists that are allegedly named as anti-TAF in that memorandum: Mehmet Ali Birand, Cüneyt Ülsever, Hadi Uluengin, Ece Temelkuran, Çetin Altan, Hasan Cemal, Can Dündar, Nuray Mert, Yıldırım Türker, Murat Belge, Hasan Celal Güzel, Soli...
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March 07, 2007
'Mr Ocalan' conviction in Turkey A Kurdish politician in Turkey has been sentenced to six months in prison for referring to jailed Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan as "Mr Ocalan". Murat Yetkin in The E.U. Is Curious, Too: Will Erdogan...
March 03, 2007
Today is my first Istanbul derby in İnönü... Beşiktaş vs. Galatasaray. S*** i am still at home! France - Le Monde | Friday, March 2, 2007; Thomas Ferenczi on the European passion for football FP blog asks Why do...
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February 26, 2007
Rebecca Bryant in Turkey, Cyprus and the European Division (Rebecca Bryant is assistant professor of anthropology at George Mason University and author of Imagining the Modern: The Cultures of Nationalism in Cyprus [London: I. B. Tauris, 2004].) More than three...
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Our guests arrived at 5 to 8 pm. and after talking a bit on soccer, jobs, geography, traffic and weather at 8:29 the eldest brother officially declared why they were there. That took not more than 5 minutes after when...
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February 19, 2007
Ms. Gilmore, Home and Legal Affairs Correspondent for BBC Television News, will be lecturing at Bilgi on Feb 26......
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February 17, 2007
"Valley of the Wolves -- Terror" is banned. In a Reuters piece it is stated that: The action-packed "Valley of the Wolves" has been hugely popular both as a television series and a movie, but the latest series, "Valley of...
February 14, 2007
California-based internet giant Google may have to rethink its popular news.google.com service after Belgian courts on Tuesday said it is illegal to publish summaries of news stories and links without newspapers' consent. * Belgian court rules against Google over copyright...
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February 12, 2007
The Hrant Dink murder will be remembered not only for its shocking impact but also for the imprint it left on the press. Apart from debates on polluted information and manipulative reporting, the largely abhorred murder caused a chronic problem...
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February 10, 2007
This post is spared for Editors Weblog. Here is a list of posts i have bookmarked to share with you... "French Communications professor Patrick-Yves Badillo examines the influence of information and communication technologies (TIC) on journalism, and society in general....
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February 08, 2007
6 Şubat 2007 Sayı10/E-6 Türkiye Gazeteciler Cemiyeti'nce düzenlenen Geleneksel Türkiye Gazetecilik Başarı Ödülleri(2006) kazananlar belli oldu. Yönetmelik uyarınca bu yıl ödül seçici kurulları şu isimlerden oluştu:...
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February 07, 2007
Citizen Media: Fad or the Future of News? The rise and prospects of hyperlocal journalism - By Jan Schaffer - J-Lab Executive Director Fantastic interactive graphic from nytimes.com showing Super Bowl ads from 1984-2006. VIA CyberJournalist quotes some early details...
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February 05, 2007
Several Turkish newspapers today reported that Higher Council of Radio and Television in Turkey received too many complaints but the council has no power to ban a program. The new series will be shown soon in Show TV and...
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January 30, 2007
The Digital Edge Award winners for this year were announced. Here is the press release thru CyberJournalist. In other news; * Blog Readership Growing For Major Newspapers * Blogger Offers Four Reasons Why Blogs Fail * PR, Blogging And Social...
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January 19, 2007
In proposals presented on 15 January 2007, Information Society and Media Commissioner Viviane Reding and Commission Vice President Margot Wallström announced three steps towards greater media pluralism in the EU......... * Commission seeks to end 'blame game' over communicating EU...
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January 17, 2007
European Union Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn yesterday criticized French Interior Minister and presidential hopeful Nicolas Sarkozy for opposing Turkey's bid for full EU membership. Already a member of the executive committee and head of the Social Affairs Committee of...
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January 16, 2007
Istanbul's streets serve as gallery for Radikal Art open-air exhibit; The streets of Istanbul, since Tuesday, have been serving as sections of an open-air art gallery where the works of 47 artists are being displayed as part of an...
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A Canadian study indicates that lifelong bilingualism delays the onset of dementia by 4 years. The scientists were reportedly "dazzled" by the results. Our students keep on hanging to Turkish, maybe this will encourage them to be bilingual:p Agency: DDB,...
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"Professor Rosental Calmon Alves, Knight Chair in Journalism & UNESCO Chair in Communication at the University of Texas at Austin, wants you to mark your calendar for the 8th International Symposium on Online Journalism." It is scheduled for March 30-31,...
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January 07, 2007
Radikal Here is his editorial in Turkish.... * BBC: Turkish writer attacks oppression Milliyet started a campaign in which it claims that it is the most visited news site in Turkey. Because it provides news videos. I have doubts....
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December 27, 2006
Here are the top 10 winner and losers according to Richard Menta And here is the Japanese Robot Awards 2006 Announced ads from Greenpeace... In the mean time, Wikipedia Founder is now Working on User-Powered Search while it is claimed...
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December 22, 2006
Today is the global orgasm day. Enjoy the event:) And a Christmas gift: JK Rowling announces seventh Harry Potter title Shame on me, I haven't read the sixth one yet:( Ads from the American Red Cross. Strupp's Top 10 Newspaper...
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The website can turn any ordinary person with a camera into a journalist, a more powerful version of the "CNN effect." By Moisés Naím, MOISéS NAíM is editor in chief of Foreign Policy magazine, in which a longer version of...
December 21, 2006
Newsdesign blog discusses the Seattle Times first page..." In Seattle, they’re still reeling from last week’s big storm. Thousands are still without electricity and six people have died from carbon monoxide poisoning as the result of using charcoal or...
December 19, 2006
Editors Weblog quotes Jeff Jarvis: "...Jarvis referred to a blog posting where he wrongfully criticized the director of the Press Complaints Commission, based on an online source with an inaccurate quote. Jarvis acknowledged that “the internet can also be worse...
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December 14, 2006
Among the sites I follow, Journalism.co.uk seems to provide more news on the Le Web 3 conference. I learnt here that TechCrunch's UK editor Sam Sethi has been fired following his coverage of the recent Le Web 3 conference in...
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November 29, 2006
New guidelines for the prestigious Pulitzer Prizes allow the submission of a blogs. A press release from the Pulitzer Board discusses the widening of the range of online journalims to include blogs and other online content..... This development is...
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November 26, 2006
Here it is. Now we can complain... New Blog Covers Air Travel Complaints! Here is the news and here is the blog Wassily Kandinsky, Murnau Street with Women, 1908. Via * The Digital Age and Plagiarism * Top Ten Geek...
November 23, 2006
Sweden has a near perfect democracy, followed by Iceland, the Netherlands, Norway and Denmark, according to a survey of 167 countries by the Economist Intelligence Unit. With countries ranked according to their electoral process, government functioning, political participation, political culture...
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"The International Herald Tribune reports that a decision by the California Supreme Court gives bloggers, forum owners and publishers immunity from libelous comments posted on their websites by others. It is a good decision because bloggers should not be punished...
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November 22, 2006
U.S. CityTools will launch next month a platform that allows newspapers to share content and even use articles written by the public. According to the developers, several U.S. newspapers are already interested by the service. This is also commented in...
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November 15, 2006
A senior Vatican cardinal has expressed concern over the use of some Muslim veils by Islamic immigrants in Europe. Barroso defends Romania's new 'multilingualism' job: European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso has played down criticism from socialist MEPs who said...
November 12, 2006
Paris based organization Reporters Sans Frontières, or Reporters Without Borders, recently released its annual list of countries deemed “enemies of the Internet”. This years’ document counts 13 entries, including China, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and North Korea. Compared to last year...
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November 05, 2006
AnthroSource Steering Committee has been dissolved by the dark iron hand of the AAA says Kambiz Kamrani ; Digging Digitally provides a substantive post on the same issue. Littering on the street, who don't do that? Just one candy package,...
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November 04, 2006
FT says ...Yet the real problem that could cause negotiations to be suspended - or at least put in cold storage - in December is far more precise and immediate: the failure to make any progress on a settlement of...
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Dan Gillmore responds to Howard Kurtz who, at the Washington Post, writes “Tightened Belts Could Put Press In a Pinch“:..... from one of the three parcels of an uncertain terrain in the breathtakingly wondrous deltaic expanse of the Ganges-Brahmaputra. via...
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November 03, 2006
Tim Berners-Lee, Wendy Hall, James Hendler, Nigel Shadbolt, Daniel J. Weitzner: "Since its inception, the World Wide Web has changed the ways scientists communicate, collaborate, and educate. There is, however, a growing realization among many researchers that a clear research...
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Istanbul International Independent Media Forum meets 3-5 November; Activists, specialists, workers, students, analysts and initiatives from across the world and Turkey, who strive for an independent and democratic communication environment will meet in Istanbul....
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November 01, 2006
Editors Weblog provided regular info from the World Digital Publishing Conference: * BBC's integration of the interactive newsroom * “Maintaining and growing audience at the local level” * NYT’s Continuous News Desk The same blog also informs us that Al-Jazeera...
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October 29, 2006
Kambiz Kamrani introduces: "Welcome to the first ever issue of the Four Stone Hearth, or otherwise now known as 4SH. For this round, we have only three of the four stones represented, we are missing out on the linguistic anthropologists...
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October 26, 2006
The survey by A&G shows a dramatic drop in Turkish public support for entering the EU. This signal comes as a warning only weeks before the Commission’s report. Only 2.8 per cent of respondents trust France, and 3.2 per cent...
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Istanbul Bilgi University, on Wednesday, 1st November, will host a panel discussion entitled "Editorial Principles: The BBC Example". Members of the Panel * Mr. Richard Sambrook, Director, BBC Global News Division * Mr. Zahid Akman, Chairman, Turkish TV and Radio...
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October 23, 2006
"An anonymous reader writes "Firefox 2.0 for Tuesday, says the Seattle PI. They give a quick recap of some of the new features, and discuss the ongoing IE vs. Fox debate.". I am about to switch back to IE 7...
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October 18, 2006
Writing & the Digital Life comments on Google intervention on Writely: Writely is dead. Long live Google Docs and Spreadsheets and describes it Another perfect reporters tool and Where's Google Going? In the mean time, "Karen Nakamura, who was recently...
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October 13, 2006
In a US based journalistic piece it is argued that front page redesign demonstrates changes in newsroom mentality, in another case, American journalism's strict division between fact and opinion is debated. Finally, it is stated that Personality goes a long...
October 12, 2006
By John F. Harris: At first glance, three uproars that buffeted American politics in recent weeks have little in common. Former congressman Mark Foley (R-Fla.) ended his political career over sexually charged e-mails to former House pages. Sen. George Allen...
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October 09, 2006
Here are the winners of the 2006 Online Journalism Awards:...
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October 08, 2006
Russian prosecutors investigating the murder of Anna Politkovskaya say they believe her death could be linked to her investigative reporting. Ms. Politkovskaya was believed to poisoned on her way to act as a mediator in the Beslan incident. Here...
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October 03, 2006
The European Charter for Media Literacy exists to support the establishment of media literacy across Europe. By signing the Charter, organisations and individuals endorse a specific definition of media literacy, and commit to actions that will contribute to its...
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September 30, 2006
Sabah daily has devoted a full page for blogging but hey where am I there? :) Seems like the sampling is quite limited and our journalist is not aware of the section of Turkish blogosophere prepared in English... But in...
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September 27, 2006
Google Turns Eight In a FT piece, Gideon Rachman wrote about the "Apostles of the blogosphere": A few weeks ago I mentioned to a friend, who works in the “new media”, that I was to start a blog for...
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September 24, 2006
"So while some professorial types might worry bloggers will replace newspapers, I'm not worried, writes The Albuquerque Tribune's Kate Nash. Following an invitation by Amnesty International Greece to raise public awareness and mobilize people for the protection of human rights,...
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September 09, 2006
A very helpful site is launched recently: J-Learning: "he site is designed to help individuals, civic groups and school groups jumpstart their own community media projects. Here, you'll find extensive, detailed training in Web site creation, HTML, page design and...
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September 07, 2006
Emily Sweeney, a reporter for the Boston Globe and president of the New England chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, has been training herself little by little in new media journalism. Animation here. * Loic Le Meur says France's...
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September 03, 2006
* Here are the finalists for the 2006 Online Journalism Awards... * Study: "9 Ways for newspapers to improve their websites" * Ten steps to better newspaper sites * To innovate and reinvent, newspapers need research and development * "Who...
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August 27, 2006
I have been quite comfortable with the IE but its latest beta version messed up my system and I switched browsers. I had once tried to use Firefox but I wasn't that comfortable. It seems that IE's latest version imitates...
August 26, 2006
This is already old news. A Research and Consultancy Company, Odak, made a survey among the readers of several Turkish newspapers. Some interesting but not that surprising results. Just for the record. Here is a list of findings (in Turkish)...
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August 24, 2006
The complete list is here. Neither Rice nor Bilgi is there:) Not a drop to drink? * Collaborative Long-Term Ethnography and Longitudinal Social Analysis of a Nomadic Clan In Southeastern Turkey Ulla Johansen, Institute of Ethnology, University of Cologne and...
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Sheila says if you have more blog friends than 'real life' friends...or if... you're blogging in your head before you fall asleep.....you are a blog addict. I guess I am addicted. Click here to read her article..... I don't deny....
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August 17, 2006
Cambridge Community Television (CCTV) of Cambridge, MA, has released the final version of their 15 minute short on citizen journalism online...............
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July 31, 2006
Via CyberJournalist: "Here's a great interview with three Wikipedia contributors, who say that the bulk of the best content is written by a small group of people:............ Sydney based artist Rebecca Wetzler creates lush, messy, and interweaving illustrations, which burst...
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July 22, 2006
Credit goes to Kottke.Org and Newsdesigner. The Israel Association of Journalists decided on Thursday to suspend its membership in the International Federation of Journalists to protest the association’s condemnation of Israel’s attacks on Hizbullah’s Al-Manar television network........... Toni Abdulkarim...
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July 18, 2006
.......Whose side are Turks on in all of this? I have been reading the columnists' various opinions on the matter since Monday. The vast majority of them support Zidane through it all. Why? Is it because of the Turks famous...
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July 17, 2006
NOAM COHEN: A new research paper seeks to answer a riddle for publishers, editors and even readers: when does new news become old news? In the case of a news article on the Internet, the answer is surprisingly long: 36...
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Nokia has sponsored a Citizen Journalism Awards contest and given out phones to those who took three winning photographs. .......Here is the official site. This comes from John Brinton Hogan's Vacation series..... YouTube Serves 100 Million Videos Each Day...
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July 13, 2006
Some interesting and unusual illustration work by Zachary Rossman........ [Kavala photos will be uploaded when I return to Istanbul...] Gazzmend Kaplani from Ta Nea made a good speech in the opening session yesterday. He emphasized the ideology of victimization...
July 09, 2006
Via Google Blogoscoped. ...........By the time washingtonpost.com launched on June 17, 1996, the online operation had relocated from its confined space at The Post's office at 15th and L streets into some relatively swanky digs in Arlington, Va. The...
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May 31, 2006
'Journalists interested in improving their coverage of war crimes or politics can download two new handbooks, free of charge. The Africa program of the Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR) produced both manuals. 'Reporting Justice: A Handbook on Covering...
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May 23, 2006
The EPpy Awards winners for 2006 have been announced. Here is the complete list...: This is cool: Top Ten Stock Photography Cliches...
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May 20, 2006
Thanks to FT Blog, I have seen that FT correspondents offered a list of columnists whom they think to be the most influential in their countries. Turkey is not in the list yet. Who could be Turkey's candidate?......
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May 19, 2006
'Here are the five requirements Scoble listed for a blog to be a blog. 1. Ease of publishing. 2. Discoverability. (Pings weblogs.com or technorati or another ping server). 3. Conversationality. (Trackbacks or as-they-happen referer logs, or now being part...
May 16, 2006
Bloggers Blog comments on 'Personal Blogs vs. Traditional Media' and refers to a column Dan Brown wrote. We are also informed that Social Networking Sites Grow Nearly 50% in a year! Finally, Steve Pavlina Provides Blogging for Money Tips. This...
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