France has nearly 1 million bloggers, making it the most active European country in terms of the Internet personal Web sites, a new study published by the US firm Forrester Research showed this week.
Still, only 3 percent of Europe's estimated 130 million Internet users create blogs, it said, adding that most of the bloggers were in France, Italy, and Spain. (...)
Full article in Middle East Times.
Canal de Língua Portuguesa (CLP TV), a satellite TV channel based in Paris and dedicated to Portuguese-speaking communities throughout Europe, will be launched on November 25.
CLP TV will offer general entertainment content 24 hours a day, including information, debates, movies, soaps, Portuguese language lessons, music programmes and sports. According to its director, António de Morais Cardoso, 80 per cent of the programming will be transmitted in Portuguese, while foreign programs will be subtitled. (...)
Full article in ATV's News Archive.
A Dominican journalist was fired yesterday after Armed Forces minister Ramon Aquino complained about a question that the reporter made to the cardinal Nicolas Lopez Rodriguez.
Adolfo Salomón, who has worked in the local television station "Color Vision” for 8 years, told the press that he was dismissed after Aquino sent a letter to that company, complaining about a question from Salomón recently asked to Lopez Rodriguez, asking to comment on the issue of homosexuals in the Dominican catholic Church. The prelate reacted angrily calling the reporter "insolent". (...)
Full article in Dominicane Today.
... any expected guest that God might send would be greated with a hot meal, a hot stove, and a roomful of good-hearted people staring stupidly at a television.
Orhan Pamuk, The Black Book, p. 124
Guillermo Espinosa Rodríguez of the Agencia de Prensa Libre Oriental (APLO), an independent news agency, was sentenced by a court in the eastern city of Santiago de Cuba on 6 November to two years of house arrest for being a “danger to society.” Espinosa was brought before the court after being held for 12 days at Department 21 of the state security police. (...)
Full article: Reporters without borders.
This weekend Istanbul will be hosting the Istanbul Independent Media Forum at Bilgi university. Important speakers from all over the world will be attending this event which lasts for two days at the Dolapdere campus.
Participants to the Istanbul International Independent Media Forum call the governments and mainstream media and independent and local media across the globe to take action for their particular part to ensure the peoples enjoy their right to freedom of expression and the right to freedom of access to information.
Event website here (turkish and english).
Metro International has today been awarded the prestigious accolade of 'World's Largest Global Newspaper', by Guinness World Records, the global leader in world records. (...)
Metro is the largest and fastest growing international newspaper in the world. It publishes 70 editions in 93 major cities in 21 countries and in 19 languages. It has a unique global reach – attracting a young, active, well-educated, metropolitan audience of over 18.5 million daily readers. The first Metro newspaper was published in Stockholm in 1995, followed by Prague in 1997. (...)
Full article here.
Radio France International (RFI) has cut Turkish broadcasts, which have been on the air for 35 years, on grounds of financial difficulties.
The radio station, which broadcasts in 19 languages, cut only its broadcasts in Turkish. (...)
The radio management announced the end of Turkish broadcasts was a part of financially-triggered reform program, but they decided to continue broadcasting in Lagos, Bulgarian, Albanian, Vietnamese and Serbian. (...)
Full article: Zaman Daily, 28th October 2006.
This index measures the state of press freedom in the world. It reflects the degree of freedom journalists and news organisations enjoy in each country, and the efforts made by the state to respect and ensure respect for this freedom.
A television programme that purports to show widespread drug use among Italy’s MPs was scrapped before transmission last night amid uproar over both the results and the methods used to entrap the politicians.
In a classic sting operation some 50 politicians were fooled into thinking they were being interviewed about aspects of next year’s draft budget, currently before parliament. Instead, a make-up artist with a satirical TV show swabbed their eyebrows to get a sample of their perspiration, which was then tested for traces of cannabis and cocaine. Twelve allegedly tested positive for cannabis and four for cocaine, all apparently taken in the 36 hours before being approached.
Full article in The Guardian.
A fazer fé num relato do último plenário de redacção do jornal Público relatado pelo semanário Sol, um dos administradores da empresa proprietária do diário terá justificado a necessidade de dispensar jornalistas pelo facto de, segundo disse, haver «memória a mais» na redacção (...).
Google expanded its controversial Google News service yesterday, adding an archive of articles spanning more than 200 years, including stories from the Guardian, Washington Post and New York Times.
Google News Archive Search allows users to look up articles from publications dating as far back as the 18th century. Users will be able to read stories reporting the assassination of President Kennedy, the unfolding of the Watergate scandal and England's 1966 World Cup victory. (...)
Full article in Guardian Unlimited.
In an experiment in collaborative journalism, Wired News is putting reporter Ryan Singel at your service.
This wiki began as an unedited 1,059-word article on the wiki phenomenon, exactly as Ryan filed it. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to do the job of a Wired News editor and whip it into shape. Don't change the quotes, but feel free to reorganize it, make cuts, smooth the prose or add links -- whatever it takes to make it a lively, engaging news piece.
Ryan will answer questions from the comments page, and, when consensus calls for it, conduct additional reporting. If there's something he missed, let him know, and he'll get on the phone and investigate, then submit new text to the wiki for your review.
Readers can also submit headlines for the story, and write and edit the "deck" -- a blurb for our front page and RSS feed that promotes the article.
To make any changes, you'll first need to create a free account at Socialtext.
We'll release the results under a Creative Commons license, and, if the whole thing doesn't turn into a disaster, run the final story on Wired News on Sept. 7, 2006.
Check it here.
(Link in the title.)
Discovered here (in portuguese).
The Municipality of Porto just decided to create new laws for ascribing financial support to institutions: there is a new clause in the contract, which states that the institution can’t be hostile to the municipality in public.
Furthermore, it was also discovered that the same municipality has an agreement with some newspapers (from Vila Nova de Gaia), in which is given to these newspapers the responsibility of following the public acts and the municipality and municipal companies activities as well, with the benefit of sharing between themselves the revenues of the institutional advertising.
Source: Público.
Source: Público.
Of the 20 most highly rated TV programs since May 1987, in terms of total audience share, number that were sports-related: 10.
Number that were episodes of Asmalı Konak*: 8.
in TimeOut Istanbul, nº 33, October 2003
*Popular TV Turkish series (more information at IMDb).
TURKEY'S public television TRT, controlled by the Islamist-rooted government, has barred the popular Walt Disney cartoon Winnie the Pooh from air because it has a piglet as one of its main heroes, the Turkish press reported today.
Several other cartoons featuring pigs also failed to win the green light from TRT management, according to the left-wing Cumhuriyet daily.
