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Ed Webb

Europe's first 'personalised paper' | The Australian - 0 views

www.theaustralian.news.com.au/...0,25197,26207945-12377,00.html

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shared by Ed Webb on 15 Oct 09 - Cached
  • they said that young people are tired of trawling the Internet for news and would pay for the personalised, tailored service that niiu would offer
  • people prefer to read from paper
  • very targeted advertising
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  • Eventually, clients will also be able to choose the length of the paper delivered - for example, eight pages on a busy Monday but 60 pages on a Friday when there is more time to read. Initially, the paper will be 16 pages.
  • Ed Webb on 15 Oct 09
     
    Is this how newspapers can survive? By copying an RSS reader, but in print form?
Ed Webb

NSFW: After Fort Hood, another example of how 'citizen journalists' can't handle the truth - 0 views

www.techcrunch.com/...rnalists-cant-handle-the-truth

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shared by Ed Webb on 09 Nov 09 - Cached
  • For all of our talk about “the world watching”, what good did social media actually do for the people of Iran? Did the footage out of the country actually change the outcome of the elections? No. Despite a slew of YouTube videos and a couple of thousand foreign Twitter users turning their avatar green and pretending to be in Tehran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is still in power. It’s astonishing, really. Despite how successful ten million actual voters marching through Washington, London and other major cities in 2003 were in stopping the invasion of Iraq, a bit of entirely virtual cyber-posturing by foreigners didn’t lead to real change in Iran.
  • Ed Webb on 09 Nov 09
     
    Mostly not about Iran, but about citizen journalism. I think Carr is all kinds of wrong here, but it's an interesting and probably important debate.
Ed Webb

MEI - Middle East International - Inside MEI - 0 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 09 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Ed Webb on 09 Nov 09
     
    Relaunched.
Ed Webb

Dan Rather: ...And in Other News - 0 views

www.huffingtonpost.com/...nd-in-other-news_b_855034.html

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shared by Ed Webb on 29 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • The idea that we can't afford to throw resources at an important foreign story, but can afford to spend this kind of money on a story like the royal wedding is just plain wrong. The idea that we can't break into regularly-scheduled programming for an address by the president is wrong as well. When the topic was the "Birther Story" (better referred from here on out by the first letters of those two words), the networks jumped right in. As a journalist, you like to be the one asking the questions. But it's time that some of our news executives gave some answers of their own.
Ed Webb

"We Are Taking a Moral Stance Against Censorship": Jordanian NGO Defies Media Law - Global Voices Advocacy - 1 views

advocacy.globalvoicesonline.org/...jordanian-ngo-defies-media-law

shared by Ed Webb on 07 Jul 14 - No Cached
  • What we oppose is the licensing requirement, which requires every publication or website to get permission from the government in order to operate. The requirement to license is one of the oldest tools of government censorship and restriction of freedom of expression. How could it be that in the digital age of self-publishing, social media and citizen journalism, you have to get government permission to publish online? Does it make sense that in order to get that permission, you have to have an editor in chief who  has been a member of the official press association for at least four years?
Ed Webb

Antonin Scalia's death was first reported by the San Antonio Express-News. Here's how the newspaper got the scoop. - 0 views

www.slate.com/..._san_antonio_express_news.html

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shared by Ed Webb on 14 Feb 16 - No Cached
  • Ed Webb on 14 Feb 16
     
    On the importance of old-fashioned local news gathering.
Ed Webb

Heikal, Egypt's most famous journalist, dies at 92 - Al Jazeera English - 0 views

www.aljazeera.com/...t-dies-92-160217072359949.html

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shared by Ed Webb on 17 Feb 16 - No Cached
  • Heikal was one of the most trenchant defenders of Nasserite Egypt and its pan-Arabism trends
  • As Nasser's friend since they first met during the war with Israel, Heikal became a staunch supporter of the coup and helped in drafting Nasser's manifesto, The Philosophy of the Revolution, which outlined his outlook for post-monarchy Egypt.
  • In 1956 and 1957, Heikal served as editor of Al-Akhbar daily, a sister publication owned by media tycoons Mustafa Amin and his twin brother Ali, who are widely considered to be the fathers of Western-style modern Egyptian journalism
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  • Heikal improved Al Ahram's coverage by subduing the sensationalism that had characterised Egypt's media and taking it to the level of Egypt's and the Arab world's most prestigious paper
  • he paper provided a platform for Nasser's nationalist and pan-Arab policies. Heikal's widely read Friday column in Al Ahram, "Bi-Saraha" [or "Frankly Speaking"], in which he used to convey Nasser's messages and explain the government's stances, became the barometer of Egyptian policy
  • As happens with the intelligentsia under totalitarian or populist regimes, Heikal had probably failed to draw a clear demarcation between his role as a journalist and as an outspoken advocate of Nasserism.
  • Heikal fell out with Sadat over his domestic and international policies, prompting Sadat to relieve him of his duties in 1974. The disagreement culminated in Heikal's opposition to the 1979 peace treaty Sadat signed with Israel.
  • In 2007 Heikal began hosting a series of weekly programmes on regional and world events on Al Jazeera Arabic Channel. Among the topics he discussed in the "Ma'a Heikal" [or "With Heikal"] show were US-Middle East policies, the Arab-Israeli conflict and Arab divisions. As it was expected, Egypt under Nasser came up in several programmes.
  • Critics often claimed he was using quotations attributed to dead politicians which they believed were fabricated to support an argument or serve a political agenda.
Ed Webb

Egypt's critics have a voice, but never the last word - International Herald Tribune - 1 views

www.iht.com/...18egypt.php

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  • For some reason, as yet unexplained, blogging seems to cross the line from speaking to acting.
    • Ed Webb
      Ed Webb on 18 Feb 09
       
      Why should this be so? Discuss!
  • Abdul Kareem Nabeel Suleiman, a young blogger sentenced to four years in prison for criticizing President Hosni Mubarak and the state's religious institutions.
  • "For a second, after the judge said I should be freed, I thought there really were laws in this country,"
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  • security forces operate with impunity
    • Manon Latil
      Manon Latil on 18 Feb 09
       
      Unable to explain the unexplained, I just think that blogging, through writing, can be considered as an alternative means of criticising the government, as were pamphlets. It does not justify censorship, but since newspapers more or less use autocensorship (or is it selfcensorship?), because they are journalists, professionals, belonging to a specific group or sphere, that they have codes and ways of framing the world through their kownledge, blogs and bloggers are dangerous. They are hard to control because now the sphere of people expressing themselves has nothing to do with any writing ability (unlike people who went to a journalism school for example) or knowlegde. Through censorship, they deny the bloggers the right to be considered legitimate sources of information.
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