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Friday, February 03, 2012
Huffington Post to launch streaming network
The Huffington Post on Thursday marked the first
anniversary of its acquisition by AOL with an announcement that it plans
to launch an online video streaming network.
The HuffPost Streaming Network will launch this summer with 12 hours a
day of original programming, to be increased to 16 hours a day by the
end of 2013, Huffington Post founder Arianna Huffington said in a blogpost. Huffington said the network will "live on every platform - computer,
smartphone, tablet, Over-the-Top TV - with the goal of creating the
most social video experience anywhere." She said the network "will be built around segments spotlighting the
biggest, hottest, most engaging stories HuffPost is covering at any
given moment." The Huffington Post was launched by Huffington, a Greek-American author
and columnist, in May 2006 and sold to AOL last February for USD 315m. Huffington said that over the past year, the number of unique monthly
visitors to the Post has increased by 47 percent to 36.2 million.
The Huffington Post also launched Canadian, British and French editions,
she said, and has plans to launch Spanish and Italian versions.
(AFP)
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Data Journalism Awards (DJA)
The Global Editors Network (GEN) is proud to announce the launch of the first annual Data Journalism Awards (DJA), the international competition recognising outstanding work in the growing field of data journalism. The GEN initiative is supported by Google and is organised in collaboration with the European Journalism Centre.
A total of EUR 45,000 will be awarded to the six winning projects.
Posted on January 19, 2012 by EJC
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EJC launches Press Freedom 2.0 Bolivia
The European Journalism Centre on December 2, 2011, officially launched a five-year Dutch Foreign Ministry funded programme to support press freedom initiatives and improve training for journalists and journalism students in Bolivia.
Bolivia is EJC’s second largest target country within the Press Freedom 2.0 portfolio. The programme will focus on the protection of journalists’ rights, media ethics, balanced and unbiased reporting, investigative and business news stories produced to the highest levels of journalistic standards in order to inspire both journalists, university faculty, media owners - and the public - to raise the bar on what constitutes professional reporting.
Posted on December 12, 2011 by EJC
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Financial news service in Zimbabwe
The European Journalism Centre and the Thomson Reuters Foundation on 26 September officially launched a five-year Dutch Foreign Ministry funded programme to establish a financial news service in Zimbabwe. “The Source”, registered temporarily as a trust on its way to local incorporation, will be the first financial news service of its kind in the country. “Our ambition is to help create an independent, accurate and timely economic news service for Zimbabwe with integrity as its watchword,” said Nick Kotch of the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
Posted on October 17, 2011 by EJC
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The MAITRE website launches
On Wednesday the 20th of July, MAITRE´s official website went live. MAITRE - Media Actions for International Training of Researchers – is a project funded by the European Commission’s FP7 KBBE Programme, which aims to enhance the knowledge about food research by improving the media skills of food scientists.
Posted on July 27, 2011 by EJC
Filed under projects, website.
EJC launches five-year NL Foreign Ministry funded programme in Georgia
On 18 June 2011 the EJC officially launched its five-year Netherlands Foreign Ministry funded programme in Georgia, in partnership with Georgian Institute of Public Affairs (GIPA). The “Finances and Transparency-New Approaches for Georgian Journalism” project targets a specific niche issue in Georgia’s media landscape, namely: the lack of in-depth, well-researched economic corruption investigative journalism stories.
Posted on June 23, 2011 by EJC
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EJC awarded four-year EU contract “Information Events for Journalists”
The European Journalism Centre (EJC) has signed a four-year contract with the European Commission to implement information events for journalists related to EU affairs. While the EJC provided similar services to the Commission before, this framework contract is for the first time “inter-institutional”, encompassing a whole range of EU bodies. In addition to the European Commission, now the European Parliament, the Committee of the Regions, the European Economic and Social Committee, and the European Court of Auditors will participate as well. Moreover, the contract is “international” in scope, allowing EJC to invite journalists from all over the world.
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