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Race, Riots and the News
England’s National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) takes the BBC to task for a recent episode of its radio show World Have Your Say where the host asked call-in show listeners, “Is there a problem with young black men?”
This follows a recent Newsnight television program where historian David Starkey claimed “whites have become blacks” when discussing England’s riots.
In an open letter, Gregory H. Lee, Jr, the NABJ President, writes:
Even more disturbing, the Newsnight presenter did not challenge that bizarre assertion - on a program that regularly holds people accountable for their views. By allowing the comment to go unchallenged, was the BBC agreeing with the inference that becoming black is monolithically synonymous with being violent?…
…Is this just a case of shocking incompetence or racism — as others have said? Why have black people in Britain not been afforded the same respect given to others? Why is the assumption that if something is negative pertaining to black people it is deemed acceptable by the BBC? What happened to the BBC’s duty to provide accurate and balanced reporting? This raises the question of whether the BBC’s senior editorial ranks need better racial and philosophical diversity to avoid being blind to such insensitive incidents.
Whether an employer claims ownership of a social media account or not, they cannot ‘own’ the relationship between users and that account. And there will be as many relationships as users. Some passive; some collaborative; some neglected; some exploitative.
In the Online Journalism Blog the occurrence of Laura Kusenssberg and her withdrawal from BBC for ITV is referenced to exemplify why this matters in a real world application. The underlying question here is ‘do journalists have ownership of the brand they create or is the organization they are associated with have rights to the users?’
You shouldn’t state your political preferences or say anything that compromises your impartiality. Don’t sound off about things in an openly partisan way. Don’t be seduced by the informality of social media into bringing the BBC into disrepute. Don’t criticise your colleagues. Don’t reveal confidential BBC information. Don’t surreptitiously sanitise Wikipedia pages about the BBC.
Who Owns a Journalists' Twitter Account?
Reportr has a head scratcher about BBC News political correspondent Laura Kuenssberg and her Twitter account.
Under her @BBCLauraK handle she’d built up a following of almost 60,000 people. Now that she’s moving on to ITVNews the question is does she need to give it up?
The simple thing would be to change the handle to @ITVLauraK but life isn’t always so simple. Instead, she’s starting from scratch.
Via Reportr:
Social media creates an opportunity for journalists to interact on a personal level with audiences.
Even if an account is branded as a “BBC” journalist, it blurs the traditional barrier between the professional and personal as tweets tend to reflect the personality of the reporter.
It marks a further step in the shift from the institutional to the individual brand of the journalist, identified by the State of the Media report in 2009: “Through search, e-mail, blogs, social media and more, consumers are gravitating to the work of individual writers and voices, and away somewhat from institutional brand.”
On the one hand, having BBC attached to your name will get you more attention. On the other, having LauraK attached to its brand gets the BBC added attention.
Something to think about if you slap your organization’s call letters before your name.
A man walks through the rubble of the Libyan city of Misrata.
BBC News - Day in Pictures.
Innovative Move? BBC Develops iPhone App for Field Reporters
The BBC is in the process of creating a new app that would allow its reporters in the field to file photos, audio and video from an iPhone or iPad directly into the news organization’s system. The app would also allow reporters to broadcast live from an iPhone using only a 3G signal, Journalism.co.uk reported earlier today. But is this an innovative move?
Original article by Journalism.co.uk and picture from Media Bistro
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Privacy
The BBC’s Click podcast (formerly Digital Planet) has a very interesting conversation between author Andrew Keen and CUNY professor Jeff Jarvis on privacy in our socially networked age.
Jarvis, who advocates the term “publicness” in relation to our digital lives, is all for the public data that swirls around our activity. He thinks individuals can choose to publicly participate or keep quiet — and private — on the sidelines.
Keen counters, saying that part of our humanity is our ability to maintain our privacy.
Meanwhile, Click host Gareth Mitchell and regular commentator Bill Thompson navigate their arguments.
As we’ve noted before, privacy and the lack thereof isn’t just what we proactively choose to share. As this video shows, cell phone companies keep very active records of our geographic locations whether we like it or not.
This is an abridged version of the Click episode. The full length version can be found over at the BBC.
Run Time: 12:20
Constant, real-time internet deadlines combined with satellite transmission technology mean that it is both desirable and possible to transmit images quickly.
The photographers must use good judgment as to when to keep making pictures and when to peel off to transmit. Sometimes one photographer on a story is asked to file their images early, allowing others to spend more time with the subjects. We always strive to be ‘first, right and relevant’; get great images that are relevant and accurate and deliver them first. So there is pressure to file early, however there’s no point getting inaccurate, irrelevant photos sent in record time as they’ll get lost within hours if not minutes.
Tony Hicks, Regional Photo Editor for Europe and Africa at the Associated Press, explaining one of the ways photojournalism has changed in the digital age.
He’s responding to questions from Phil Coomes, BBC Pictures Editor, who’s exploring how photojournalists can get noticed when organizations such as his receive more than 8,000 images per day from wire services, on top of what their own photographers and freelancers are submitting.
Phil Coomes, BBC, Drowning in Pictures.
If you’re a Map Geek, the BBC Beauty of Maps series is on YouTube.
In this episode, the Beeb explores the history of satirical maps.
Run Time: 10 minutes.
Rodney Benson and doctoral student Matthew Powers surveyed public media systems in 14 countries for a Free Press report that documents this. In every Western European democracy they examined, public broadcasting channels attract at least a third of the national TV audience. Public spending per capita on media in all 14 countries ranges from $30 to $134 a year. In the U.S., that figure is less than $4. It goes up to about $9 when individual and corporate donations are included.
In all 14 countries, public media offered higher quality coverage of public affairs, more critical coverage of government and a wider diversity of viewpoints than their commercial counterparts (a pattern that holds for NPR). And these foreign public media stations have the freedom to schedule news programming during prime time, a luxury not afforded to the American viewer who doesn’t get home from work in time to watch the nightly news — at 5:30.
As a result, studies show that the level of knowledge about public affairs in many of these countries is both higher than it is in the U.S. and more equitably spread across education, class, race, ethnicity and gender.
What was what and what was where?
The BBC has an interactive photo of Cairo’s Tahrir Square demonstrating how it was organized, from toilets, to a newspaper wall to a kindergarten.
Meanwhile, as the Amazon continues to shrink, the BBC followed Jose Carlos Morales of Brazil’s Indian Affairs department in his attempts to show his government and Peru’s that “hidden” indigenous tribes exist in the rainforest.
The BBC used lenses on their cameras that allowed them to shoot from up to a kilometer away.
Via the New York Times’ Green Blog:
Advocates for the region’s indigenous people say illegal logging in Peru is driving other isolated tribes across the border into Brazil, causing conflicts over resources and territory. Responding to the release of video and images of the tribe, Peruvian authorities said this week that they would work to stop the intrusion of loggers into protected areas.
American writing, for example, beguiles and exasperates in equal measure. Its newspapers - with one or two exceptions - are awful.
Endless sub-clauses roam across prairies of newsprint in search of the point, like homesteader wagons on the Oregon trail circling around a knackered old buffalo.
Cause there are few better ways to spend an end of December evening.
Remember the 4 minute, Hans Rosling, data is beautiful teaser from a week or so ago? Let’s turn it to 11 and kick back for an hour.
BBC - Joy of Stats.
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