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Tuesday, February 09, 2010
Super Bowl is most watched U.S. show ever, CBS says
CBS Corp. said the Super Bowl was seen by an
estimated 106.5 million people, becoming the most- watched program in
U.S. television history. The broadcast of the New Orleans Saints’ 31-17 victory over the
Indianapolis Colts surpassed the 1983 season finale of “M*A*S*H,” which
was watched by 106 million viewers, New York- based CBS said Monday in an
e-mail, citing data from Nielsen Co. About 45 percent of U.S. homes watched the game, a 7 percent increase
from last year and the biggest percentage in 14 years, CBS said. Last
year’s championship on NBC was seen in 42 percent of U.S. homes. Each
rating point equals 1 percent of the 114.9 million U.S. television
households. CBS, owner of the most watched U.S. network, sold more than USD 206m
in Super Bowl ads, exceeding the record reported by NBC last year, Sean
McManus, who oversees CBS Sports, said in a Feb. 4 interview. The
network sold out its commercial time six days before the broadcast.
(Bloomberg)
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EJC joins press freedom consortium
Five Dutch nonprofit organisations have joined together to strengthen press freedom around the world. The partnership, called Press Freedom 2.0, includes World Press Photo, European Journalism Centre, European Partnership for Democracy, People on a Mission and Free Voice.
The EJC joined the Press Freedom 2.0 consortium to help build local professional journalism capacity, raise ethical standards and improve media literacy in developing countries.
Each Dutch development organisation involved has worldwide networks, which can now be linked. The resulting collaborative climate will be the best possible environment for the sustainable strengthening of independent media on a local level.
Press Freedom 2.0 also wishes to amplify the voices of minorities, women and children in local news spaces.
In recent months, the alliance has been working intensely with dozens of local partners in the global south on a 34m euro grant request to work in that area.
Posted on December 9, 2009 by EJC
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EU4Journalists now in Croatian and Turkish
The EJC is pleased to announce that the main content of the EU4Journalists website is now available in Croatian and Turkish.
Our goal is to help journalists cover the EU, whether they are based in Brussels, candidate countries or elsewhere. We provide essential information about how the EU works, as well as contact details of EU press officers.
Our dossiers give a solid background on EU policy areas and links throughout the site help users find the latest developments. We try to use as little jargon as possible, making the site especially useful for reporters covering unfamiliar subjects in a hurry.
EU4Journalists will always be a work in progress. New elements, including changes made under the Lisbon Treaty, are added and old ones removed on a regular basis. Please check the weekly video podcast on the homepage for the latest EU agenda.
Posted on December 4, 2009 by EJC
Filed under projects, website.
Covering the Crisis: Every angle covered
Estonian Finance Minister Jürgen Ligi, financial futurist Bernard Lietaer and former Danish Prime Minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen lead the programme for Covering the Crisis, the EJC Interface conference on the role of the media in the financial crisis.
This event also features a cartoon exhibit on the financial crisis by Kevin ‘Kal’ Kallaugher, the editorial cartoonist for The Economist magazine. The two-day event takes place on 9 and 10 November in Brussels. Click here for more.
Posted on November 2, 2009 by EJC
Filed under events.
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The future of international summits: Security communities exchange ideas via intranet
The first ever online Security Jam aims to be an experimental “online conference” of sorts. Hosted by the Security and Defence Agenda (SDA), the five-day event ends today. It made use of IBM’s “Jam” platform to bring into a singular dialogue the voices of think tanks, NGOs, academics and members of the defence and security community. The single goal is collaboration on 10 proposed security concerns. Resulting recommendations for action on the chosen topics will be presented to both NATO and the EU in April.
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They may appear just another group of anonymous geeks banging away behind laptops in your local café. But online — and in Brussels — the bloggers who write about the European Union are starting to be noticed.
“There is some kind of European blogosphere evolving, at least for some issues,” prominent EU blogger Julien Frisch wrote in one of his first posts of 2010.
“And that if (influential) national blogs take up European questions, they can become more important than one might initially expect.”
The remark came at the end of a post describing information flow within the community of bloggers concerned with the daily politics of the European Union.
One of the best places to delve into this community is Bloggingportal.eu, which promotes the most interesting posts of the day from among more than 500 EU blogs. A team of 25 volunteer editors at Bloggingportal.eu reads hundreds of posts every day. They link to the most interesting of the bunch on their front page.
“We want to reach people that do not necessarily read blogs and we want to show that there is a quality debate going on when it comes to the EU and European debates,” said Andreas Müllerleile, one of the site’s founders. He also blogs on EU issues at Kosmopolitio.
“The long-term goal is to offer a selection of the best blog posts in as many EU languages as possible.”
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