As Wikileaks continues to feed media outlets with thousands of classified US diplomatic cables, how serious is the threat by WikiLeaks to other media outlets? And how is WikiLeaks shaping the media industry? Is it the beginning of a new media form?...
Whistle-blowing website Wikileaks is once again at the centre of attention. Sweden has cancelled an arrest warrant against its founder Julian Assange on accusations of rape and molestation. But the damage may have already been done. When reporters from The Washington Post uncovered the Watergate scandal in the early seventies they were hailed as heroes. But after publishing more than 90000 leaked documents on the war in Afghanistan, the work of Wikileaks editors has been denounced as a criminal act. So has the impact of whis...
Isabel Wilkerson, journalist and author of The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of Americas Great Migration, speaks at Yale as a Poynter Fellow in Journalism. The event was co-sponsored by the Department of African American Studies. Inspired by her own parents migration, Wilkerson devoted 15 years researching and writing her first book, The Warmth of Other Suns. The book chronicles the stories of a sharecroppers wife, a laborer and a surgeon who were among the six million black Americans that fled the American South duri...
Lets say theres a news event, maybe an earthquake, and you want to collect all the interesting tweets for your friends or blog readers, how would you do it? Or, lets say all your family and friends were using Facebook and Twitter plus a bunch of other sites like Flickr and YouTube to capture your kids first birthday party. How would you keep those all together? Storify has the answer. Its system lets you curate, or tell stories, about whats going on in the real-time web. You can join tweets, Flickr photos, Facebook messages,...
ted Musician and activist Peter Gabriel shares his very personal motivation for standing up for human rights with the watchdog group WITNESS -- and tells stories of citizen journalists in action.TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the worlds leading thinkers and doers are invited to give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes -- including speakers such as Jill Bolte Taylor, Sir Ken Robinson, Hans Rosling, Al Gore and Arthur Benjamin. TED stands for Technology, En...
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