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Article by @kpeiro for @3cat24 about the round table with Ryaad Minty (Al-Jazeera), Gumersindo LaFuente (El País), Xavier Mas de Xaxàs (La Vanguardia), Alfonso Bauluz (Agència EFE) i Jordi Pérez Colomé (autor del Blog Obamaworld)

Backing away from the more humanitarian-based issues this paper focused on, many papers worldwide having been sensationalizing reports. Journalist Dani Madrid criticized this tendency at the media140 conference in Barcelona, saying, "We have turned a country into an object for our own profession... We have transformed Japan as something distant instead of remembering that there are 25,000 casualties and devastation to a country to be rebuilt."

Quantity over quality - that needs to be the mindset for mobile journalists, UK online video journalist Adam Westbrook said today at the #media140 conference in Barcelona.

Speaking at the media140 conference in Barcelona via video link Riyaad Minty said a key strategy for Al Jazeera was to get in early and make contact with key bloggers and sources in countries to act as citizen reporters for the news outlet.

Amnesty International is introducing its own news unit in a bid to produce its own stories. Speaking at media140 in Barcelona, Amnesty International head of news Rob Winder said the organisation would like to continue working with news outlets, but also play a larger role in the production of news based on the information it has access to.

Noticia de Karma Peiró que resume las principales cuestiones que abordamos en la mesa redonda de media140 "Periodismo en una crisis: tratamiento informativo y redes sociales en la catástrofe de Japón". "Aquesta ha estat la primera catàstrofe al Japó que ha comptat amb una cobertura sobredimensionada. Al congrés Media 140 s'ha analitzat el tractament informatiu i alarmista dels mitjans occidentals i el minimalisme dels japonesos. El punt realista l'han aportat els milers de ciutadans a través de les xarxes socials, el "crowdmapping" i canals de televisió per internet en directe. El ritme de les dades ha deixat menys temps per a la reflexió i per a un periodisme en profunditat."

"Yesterday (2011-04-14) we gave a talk at media140, an independent organization focusing on the future of social technologies and media communications in a world where technology is impacting the way we engage, create and share as consumers and business owners. In order to contextualize Impure in this event we created a project to analyze the behaviour of tweets containing the hashtag #media140. This interactive dashboard allows users to explore in real time the evolution of this universe of tweets by several graphic indicators such as Word Relevance, Status vs Tweets, Word Relevance Evolution, Tweeting Time Pattern, etc. Thanks to media140 folks!"

"Jay Rosen ha querido compartir estos 8 puntos sobre el periodismo en el Media140:"

Spotlight: media140 Frontiers: Barcelona