Thursday, June 11, 2009
Awards: Amnesty Media Prizes Recognize Investigations of Killings, Torture
WikiLeaks reports that its editor Julian Assange has won Amnesty International's 2009 New Media Award for his work exposing the involvement of Kenyan police in hundreds of recent extrajudicial killings and disappearances. See more on the atrocities here. An Amnesty Media Award also goes to The Guardian for its investigation of how Britain's MI5 outsourced torture of British citizens to Pakistani security agencies. See more on these and the other Amnesty Media Awards here.
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Web 2.0: Help Me Investigate
Is crowd investigative journalism a new model for the business? Can it help spread democracy? Or is it just a gimmick that sounds all digitally and cool but really has limited potential? A UK experiment hopes to find out. Leading UK investigative journalists have teamed up with Channel 4 to create Help Me Investigate, a platform that lets people team up to investigate local and broader issues. A parallel program is Talk About Local, which aims to spread digital literacy in marginalized communities, says this item in the Birmingham Post.
Friday, May 15, 2009
The Biz: Learn Lots at MagNet Conference
Magazine writers, editors, authors and publishers are putting on quite the conference this year at the annual MagNet event in Toronto June 2 to 5. A prominent line-up of speakers will talk about feature writing, pitching, the biz of freelancing, new media, creative non-fiction - and that's just some of the writing-related workshops. Other workshops will cover digital media, publishing, circulation, copyright and lots more. See more at the MagNet site.
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