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Advice for colleagues on the digital front lines
By Bob Dietz/CPJ Asia Program Coordinator If you’re running a website that’s come under attack, or is likely to, here is some advice on how to protect yourself. First, a … Continue reading
A letter to the President on his re-election campaign spending
Dear Mr. President,
As a tax payer and citizen of Sri Lanka, I am deeply concerned by, inter alia, the wasteful nature of your campaign and the manner in which you have manipulated what should in reality be independent authorities, to broadcast propaganda.
“To live in hope — and risk disappointment”
What changes will 2010 bring?
The line between “new” and “traditional” media will continue to blur. Traditional media will use citizens in their reporting. Citizens will use the web, Internet and mobiles in their own reporting. Both will compete, and increasingly complement each other. Technologies such as natural language processing, semantic analysis, pattern matching and semiotics on the web will be used to make sense from a growing river of information, little of which will be impartial or accurate. A slow news movement, involving contextualization, reflection and curation, will emerge as a countervailing thrust to the heady pace of instant news feeds.
The flip side of media freedom
malice borne of intolerance” is how the essential nature of the chief architect of two wars in Sri Lanka was described recently in a fundamental rights petition to the Supreme … Continue reading
