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Quando ci si fida delle Organizzazioni Mediatiche, sbagliano: #IJF10

Editor: Ande Gregson Posted: Saturday, April 24, 2010 Discussion: No Comments

Qui al Festival Internazionale del Giornalismo 2010 a Perugia, media140 ha parlato con Josh Young, l’editore di Social News al Huffington Post, e Moeed Ahmad, l’editore di Social Media ad Al Jazeera English.

In questo post:

1) Josh parla con Gemma Urgell di media140 sul suo ruolo a una delle piu’ rispettate pubblicazioni internet e aggregatori di notizie e opinioni.

2) Moeed spiega che twittare ubriachi oppure alla guida è la stessa cosa che farlo sotto decisioni editoriali sbagliate.

3) Josh descrive come l’Huffington Post gestisce le correzzioni quando ha pubblicato delle informazioni sbagliate e..

4) ..la differenza tra ritwittare informazioni responsabilmente o irresponsabilmente nel caso di organizzazioni mediatiche.

I video e l’audio sono in Inglese.

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Editor: Ande Gregson Posted: Friday, April 23, 2010 Discussion: No Comments

Here at the 2010 International Journalism Festival in Perugia, media140 has caught up with Josh Young, who is Social News Editor at the Huffington Post and Moeed Ahmad, Social Media Editor at Al Jazeera English.

In the following posts;

1. Josh talks to media140′s Gemma Urgell about his role at one of the Internet’s most respected publishers and aggregators of news and opinion

2. Moeed explains why tweeting drunk, tweeting whilst driving and tweeting based on bad editorial decisions are one and the same

2. Josh describes how the Huff Post manages corrections when it has published erroneous information, and

3. The difference between responsible and irresponsible retweeting on the part of a news organisation

Don’t Tweet When Drunk, Or When Driving from media140 on Vimeo.

Editor: Ande Gregson Posted: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 Discussion: 1 Comment

images courtesy United Nations Development Programme

Paul Farrell is a freelance journalist and blogger who writes about conflict. His blog covers topics like abuses of police power and human rights issues from across the globe.

Who better than a social justice-oriented thinker with a passion for social media to introduce and explain Ushahidi – a crowd-sourced online disaster relief agency?

It is extraordinarily difficult to fathom quite what is going on in Haiti right now. No amount of graphic video and images could ever really get the horrific reality through our computer screens and into our consciousness.

With the possible exception of Rush Limbaugh – a US talk show host who cynically announced President Barack Obama would use the disaster to curry favour with ‘both dark and light-skinned Americans’ – the international community has shown great and genuine concern. Millions of dollars are pouring into Haiti while search and rescue teams sent from around the world clamber over the ruins of the island nation’s towns and villages, to provide assistance to as many survivors as possible.

But the real problem is how to effectively distribute help in devastation zones like Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince. Competition between aid agencies and governments, combined with acute logistical problems can significantly delay the delivery of aid to the areas and the individuals most in need.

Editor: Ande Gregson Posted: Friday, November 6, 2009 Discussion: 5 Comments

The overwhelming vote for Speaker of the Sydney Gig went to Al Jazeera’s Riyaad Minty. Below, Paul Farrell, guest blogger for day two, explains why he had the audience in thrall.

Riyaad Minty, Head of Social Media at Al Jazeera was the next keynote speaker, and delivered a case study about reporting on the recent Israeli offensive in Gaza. His insights into the professional practice of journalism and how social media was used is a fascinating insight into the way social media can be used effectively in conflict reporting.

His discussion did not just focus on Twitter, but other online tools like Ushudhi as well, which was used to create maps about the conflict areas in real time. Al Jazeera created ‘Your Media’ when the offensive began, which allowed for people to contribute their own stories directly to the site, and according to Riyaad worked effectively for a few days until the Israeli military clamped down on communications.

The war was also micro reported via the Twitter account @AJGaza. Al Jazeera also permits creative commons for all their raw footage, to allow democratic access to their footage. Looking at all of these new ways of engaging with new media meant that this talk was as much a case study of Al Jazeera itself as it was of reporting in Gaza.

Listening to Riyaad, it’s not hard to see why Al Jazeera is one of the most credible and engaging news organizations on the planet. As Riyaad says, “its about trust, and openness within your organization”. With people like Riyaad leading the way in engaging with social media, it shows how the old professional practice of journalism can be combined with these technologies, to provide us with a comprehensive vision of events going on around the world.

But Riyaad also gave a warning about social media and that “ at the end of the day it’s a technology, and it’s a tool”. This was a welcome caution about the supposedly revolutionary nature of these online tools. Its not the tools that define what journalism is, it’s the ever-present desire to expose the truth and hold the powerful to account.