Zaffar Abbas is Editor of Dawn, Pakistan’s most prestigious English language newspaper. His career includes a 16-year stint for the BBC as one of its Pakistan correspondents.
2013-06-03. Than Htut Aung, Chairman and CEO of Eleven Media Group in Myanmar, known for its audacious defiance of official censorship and dedication to democratic freedoms, has been awarded the 2013 Golden Pen of Freedom, the annual press freedom prize of the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA).
In a world in which social exchanges are increasingly carried out online, via the impersonal channels of “social” media sites, the launch of website trocdepresse.com seems like a rather outdated venture. That’s because it focuses on developing face-to-face social links between individuals by encouraging them to exchange their copies of newspapers and magazines with one another.
Internships have become a de facto prerequisite to most journalism careers, and more internships than ever are unpaid, with some estimates putting half in that category. In light of several recent lawsuits against employers of unpaid interns, many argue that unpaid internships may be crippling the journalism industry, while others assert that they are an irreplaceable learning opportunity.
Digital-first is a transitional strategy, said Jeff Jarvis, Director of the Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism at the City University of New York. Once you’re digital, what then? “I have thought about this a lot and tried to figure out what it is,” he said.
One of the founding fathers of the Internet, Steve Crocker, offered some fascinating insights into his vision of the future of what has become a staple of modern life for so many of us today.
President of Burundi Pierre Nkurunziza has approved the passing of a controversial new press law which, according to Reporters Without Borders “restricts journalists’ ability to do investigative reporting, weakens protection for sources, increases fines and requires all journalists to have a university degree regardless of their work experience.”
Fewer than 1 in 8 public high schools in New York City maintain journalism programs, The New York Times reported last week. The trend, though apparently more severe in New York City than elsewhere in the country, could damage the already-wounded journalism industry by weakening job applicant pools and further decreasing circulation rates.
ABP, one of the leading multimedia groups in India, launched a new daily paid newspaper, Ebela, in 2012 and in just 10 weeks, the paper vaulted to become the No. 2 Bengali-language circulated paper in the country.
Javier Moreno, Editor, El Pais and a speaker at the World Editors Forum, has been guiding the newspaper through some extremely challenging times. Here he talks about how ad revenue has dived since 2005 as a direct result of the economic crisis, and serious cost cutting that followed.