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(via theeconomist: KAL’s cartoon: this week, queuing up.)
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Africa Investigates is a groundbreaking new series that puts flesh on Al Jazeera’s ambition to give voice to the voiceless. In a world first, this hard-hitting project gives some of Africa’s best journalists the opportunity to pursue high-level investigative targets across the continent - using their unique perspective and local knowledge to put corruption, exploitation and abuse under the spotlight.
All too often in the past, African reporters have not been able to pursue wrongdoing because it involves powerful figures who wield undue influence over local media - financial, corporate or political - or because it is simply too dangerous. Investigative journalism is a perilous profession in many African nations, where intimidation, beatings, imprisonment and death threats can be an occupational hazard. As a result they have often had to sit idly by while Africa’s story has been told by Western correspondents, “parachuted in” for the purpose, who reinforce stereotypical views about African peoples and their supposed inability to face up to and solve their own problems.
Now, determined to tell their own story, Africa Investigates reporters will correct that impression. Working undercover and using hidden cameras, they will expose elaborate frauds and criminal conspiracies, child trafficking, abuse of minorities and high level official corruption. And in the process they hope they will help make African institutions, businesses and politicians more accountable and susceptible to pressure to change things for the better.
Looong overdue. I applaud Aljazeera and these journalists.
I hate to leave no commentary, but this is just a stunning concept. Going to be bouncing around in my head for a while.
EXCELLENT! THAT IS WHAT I’M TALKING ABOUT!! Let’s create for the medium at hand allowing the truly creative and innovative to come to life because the technology is there and the market is craving the different. Creative interactive media will win every time. I think it truly has to be both in order to be truly successful.
Very interesting look at the media industry in his last point. Rarely do startups seek to get involved in legislation and governmental politics. That is usually left to the big boys (Google, NBC, Murdoch). But what about a coalition of startups to effect policy for the streets. Now that is an interesting idea…
“Finally, after 40 years of wanting to have a voice in media, we find our selves in the era of YouTube and we decide to pick a fight over cable channel access? Don’t they see that Comcast bought NBC not for the broadcast channel but for Hulu? Comcast’s growth is in broadband (Internet access) not cable TV. NCAAOM is simply falling for the “O-ke-doke.”
Comcast to have Zero African American Owned Channels? « Black Web 2.0
READ THIS ARTICLE. This quote is from the comments of the Black Web 2.0 article on the lawsuit that the National Coalition of African American Owned Media (NCAAOM) is bringing against the Comcast-NBC merger.
It’s bigger than African American. It’s about NET NEUTRALITY. And what are we going to do about it.
At this point, a mobile experience shouldn’t be an afterthought
It wasn’t long ago that mobile phones had weak browsers and 3g was a network that the carriers built but without the “killer app”.
Smartphones with amazing browsers changed all of that. The web is the killer app. The browser on iPhone and Android are incredible and only getting better.
So if you are building a consumer web service these days, I highly encourage you to think of the mobile experience right away. Don’t think of mobile as something you’ll get around to doing one day. It has to be a high priority.
That doesn’t mean you have to build a native Android or iPhone app. It really depends on the service. I can’t imagine an app like Bump working without a native app while Techmeme mobile web site is amazing. It often comes down to whether your app requires access to local iphone resources (camera, address book, etc) or not.
At the very least your application/service should be optimized for mobile browsing experience and has an open API.
That’s the minimum these days.
Completely agree.
the only 3 strategies for modern news organizations
- speed (TMZ, Drudge Report, etc.)
- deep (includes Wall Street Journal, New York Times, etc.l )
- spin (includes Daily Show, Fox News, ect.)
There are some organizations that try to be a hybrid of two or three the most successful usually focus only on one.
“The increasing speed and variety of media can paralyse or empower.”
If we make news in haste, we are likely to repent at leisure - Times Online
But it’s here to stay and is an inherent characteristic of new media. That fact that a journalist (anyone, some would argue) can spread any story as a breaking story before the facts are even ascertained is a power that we have all dared to flirt with. The next generation of power is empowered by this new super-speedy media to empower (or paralyze) the herd.
“A generation is now coming of age that is used to being — and demands to be — in control of their content. They want it on-demand — not necessarily in the hands of the “broadcaster” or content provider. When they want to read something, they expect to click and see text. When they want to hear something, they expect to touch and get audio. When they want to see something, we have trained them to click and get video. If “radio” (whatever that becomes in the future) can’t do all three of these things, it has no future in the digital world.”
Radio Needs Video (via feedly) (via chartreuse)
This is so true. So how do you innovate in this new media marketplace with this new media consumer? BlackTree TV is quietly grabbing market share and attention by doing just that - being everywhere the consumer is.
“The Internet has taught me this: don’t be afraid of sharing your ideas. Don’t be afraid of engaging others to voice their ideas. And more importantly, don’t presume who is and who is not a creator — because we all are.”
Paolo Coelho (via brit)
Took a picture of the newspaper that I gladly spent $0.75 on thinking I was getting a good bargain. I’m moving and looking for a reliable list of available listings has been surprisingly difficult than in previous years. In 2009, this newspaper has a half-page long classified section with NO listing at all for real estate rentals. Unbelievable.
“Why would I buy a newspaper when I could go to craigslist for free?”, you ask.
Because, now in 2009, Craigslist has become saturated and riddled with spam and scams. And it’s enough for one who considers herself a loyal fan of Craigslist to PAY for a higher quality solution.
It’s no wonder the newspapers are dying. No spam in the paper but no content in it either?
Did I just get scammed?
I am so proud of the media network that BlackTree Media is becoming. Here is BlackTree TV live on the scene yesterday at UCLA Medical. Jamaal Finkley, CEO, puts it best here:
“I guess as soon as I heard the news, I knew it was news, and I think for the very first time our news division really felt like journalists. Michael Jackson is a man that has touched millions, and BlackTree TV felt obligated to be there to report from the ground what the people were feeling right at that moment. Nobody was expecting Michael Jackson to leave us so soon, everybody was anticipating his comeback tour and here we all find ourselves, people of all creeds, religions, nationalities, those of us who have always loved him and those of us who have taken a dislike to some of his decisions, we all felt MJ. No entertainer has come close to the reach and impact of MJ on his fans. So here we are BlackTree TV News, reporting live from UCLA Medical Center moments after MJ arrived and was later pronounced dead. Erica O’Young was on the beat, Yev Schrayber on the cameras, and Anthony Idem, Jr as producer…”
“The traditional TV industry—cable companies, networks, and broadcasters—is where the newspaper industry was about five years ago: [in] denial.”
Tradtional TV, just like paper media, is OLD media. Internet distriubtion will topple this old media business model because it bypasses these gatekeepers. Content creators and consumers will connect directly as devices and bandwidth become faster and more readily available. And we are getting there. Japan already has G4 networks and Verizon is infiltrating the U.S. broadband market with faster fiber optic lines. I truly believe that the best content creators will become the new broadcasters. The question isn’t if it will happen but merely when will this happen. The technology is already here and the consumer market is finally ready and already changing habits to consume video media on their terms — which is vastly different than how the traditional TV industry is currently delivering it to them. Sorry, There’s No Way To Save The TV Business (via @chartreuseb)
This is why I tumble and tweet. You should too.
“Copyright law wasn’t written with today’s content consumption in mind…If you’re a copyright holder and you want to keep up with your pirated content flitting about the web — well, good luck.”
