
Spoon+Fork, a New York City based creative service agency, is promoting sun bear conservation awareness and raising funds through a new line of tote bags it helped launch for the fashion and eco conscious consumer. The idea for the tote bags came about after sun bear expert and UFP member Siew Te Wong sp…
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Added by Jeanette McDermott on November 13, 2009 at 3:40pm —
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Added by Gardenia Coleman on November 13, 2009 at 3:23pm —
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Science and Environment Journalists Association launched in Somalia

Somali journalists recently lauched the National Association of Somali Science and Environmental Journalists (NASSEJ) to ensure the reporting of science news and the plight of Somalia environment in general.
NASSEJ is the legitimate and…
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Added by Daud Abdi Daud on November 12, 2009 at 2:13pm —
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Science and Environment Journalists Association launched in Somalia

Somali journalists recently lauched the National Association of Somali Science and Environmental Journalists (NASSEJ) to ensure the reporting of science news and the plight of Somalia environment in general.
NASSEJ is the legitimate and…
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Added by Daud Abdi Daud on November 12, 2009 at 2:13pm —
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I've set up a MeetUp group for journalists, students, academics, bloggers, entrepreneurs...anyone in fact interested in the future of journalism.
I hope it becomes a forum for positive ideas about what new innovations can move journalism forward.
All the details are here.
If you're in London or the UK, come along! If not I'll post the outcomes of each meeting inside the group.
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Added by Adam Westbrook on November 10, 2009 at 4:30pm —
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A story from Poynter on the @FtHoodShootings account, as well as the multiple lists created within hours of the shooting that helped aggregate news:
http://ow.ly/zUFR
In breaking news situations, Twitter is usually the first place I go to get information. I had been perusing a few news organizations' list features just a couple hours before, and the Fort Hood incident clearly demonstrated to me that these lists have serious news potential beyond being just anothe…
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Added by Cid Standifer on November 6, 2009 at 1:40pm —
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The W3C, the international body that formulates web standards, has come up with a set of extended mobile web best practices guidelines, that could prove particularly handy to news sites because of the range of content they deliver to different kinds of mobile devices.
Cross-posting from my blog:
Full entry here, along with related links.
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Added by Ramachandran on November 3, 2009 at 8:00am —
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(Cross-posted from
here.)
I admit it -- I can be a curmudgeon sometimes.
I'm rarely the first to jump on a technological bandwagon. I didn't own a CD player until 1995, nor a DVD player until 2002. I didn't register a
Twitter account until June 1, 2009, after
one of the school distric…
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Added by Erik Gable on November 1, 2009 at 7:32pm —
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Following on from my series of blogs back in August I have put together a 32 page e-book for people starting out in multimedia journalism.
It's called 6x6 and features 6 handy tips to improve your game in 6 key areas: video, audio, storytelling, business, branding & making things happen.
It's totally free and doesn't require registration - so click on the button below to check it out!…
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Added by Adam Westbrook on October 27, 2009 at 4:34pm —
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You won't believe what this mother does to save on Halloween.
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Added by Spencer Soper on October 26, 2009 at 6:45am —
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We did this On The Cheap video before Halloween last year, but the tip still works. Check out the claymation at the end.
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Added by Spencer Soper on October 26, 2009 at 6:42am —
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It was reported in Pakistani media today that the American trainers present in Sihala College, near Kahuta, seem to have nefarious designs. Their presence is supposed to be strictly limited to training the Punjab police, however they are suspected of carrying out dubious activities such as espionage. One Pakistani security agency has submitted a report accusing the Americans of misusing the facility suggesting they might have planted devices to detect radioactive material. In addition, some expl…
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Added by Zeeshan Rahat Kureshi on October 24, 2009 at 1:56am —
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An article that appeared in Chinese media few months back stated that China could easily break-up India. It was written by Zhan Lue who insisted that today the unity of India is kept intact by its main religion: Hinduism. But according to Zhan, this religion also poses problems for the country in the form of caste system, for instance. He wrote that China should join hands with different nationalities within India, in addition to some of its neighbors, and break-up the country into several piece…
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Added by Zeeshan Rahat Kureshi on October 24, 2009 at 1:53am —
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English Transcript of Sana Aijazi's interview regarding the presence of Blackwater in Pakistan:
This is true that Blackwater, America’s right hand and world’s most powerful private army, already present in Iraq and Afghanistan, is now in Pakistan. Media is screaming and trying to make the rulers realize the seriousness of the situation, but are we already not too late? Blackwater started its activities in Pakistan long time back. The evidence for this is that the Interior Ministry warned all pr…
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Added by Zeeshan Rahat Kureshi on October 21, 2009 at 2:52pm —
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It's a big issue with some journalists down under.
http://billbennett.co.nz/2009/10/15/oz-stop-tweets-iinet-trial/
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Added by Bill Bennett on October 14, 2009 at 11:54pm —
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Recorded: Wednesday, Oct. 14 at noon ET
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Added by Greg Linch on October 14, 2009 at 1:00pm —
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Here´s a link to my latest story for Spiegel-Online: http://www.spiegel.de/reise/fernweh/0,1518,653592,00.html
Unfortunately its in german but even with a translation program you´ll catch the drift.
The wolfpacks in the central rockies are NOT doing well: too many tourists, national parks too small to host sustainable packs, and a parksystem that environmentalists claim is too slow and not really willing to act.
Read the story and send me your take on the problem!
Ole
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Added by Ole Helmhausen on October 13, 2009 at 9:57am —
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When Walter Cronkite died recently, I spent some time reading about the
early days of television news. It reminded me much of where video news on the internet stands today.
When television newscasts first began, the broadcasts consisted largely of a reporter doing a radio report with the sole addition being a camera pointed at his face. It looks almost silly to watch now. It took a while for broadcasters to c…
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Added by Brian Donohue on October 12, 2009 at 1:00pm —
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Al-Qaeda’s involvement in Somalia has strongly affected the freedom of media for the last four years as well as this year of 2009.
Somalia is the most dangerous place for journalists accept Iraq as more media watchdogs point the finger at it ago. Many Somalia media cannot impartially report what is going on there because of fear of persecution from both sides that are fighting the policy of the country particularly insurgent groups.
Killings, threats, abductions and assaults are known in Soma…
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Added by Daud Abdi Daud on October 10, 2009 at 3:29pm —
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Last spring, Brian Kirk, Chris Wink and I had a problem.
All recent journalism grads, we were having trouble finding writing jobs in Philadelphia, so we attempted to create our own. The three of us started
Technically Philly, a site to cover the city’s tech community, in February. We spent the next few months building connections, covering events and interviewing community leaders to serve a population that, until now, was lucky to rece…
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Added by Sean Blanda on October 8, 2009 at 12:00pm —
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