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Wednesday, May 16, 2012
MEPs accuse commission of foul play on EU TV money
MEPs and the European Commission are embroiled in a dispute
over what happened to EUR 8.7m originally intended for an EU-wide TV
station. The commission put up the cash in a call for tender in 2008 for a
Europe-wide broadcaster - "EU TV" - that was to pool existing TV
organisations and channels into one body beaming programmes to around
150 million viewers. It attracted several serious bids, including from ETVN - a consortium of
25 broadcasters from 13 different countries, including Belgium's RTBF,
Italy's Rai and TV5 Monde from France, headed by the Geneva-based
European Broadcasting Union. The project was to go live in 2011. But on 25 January 2011 justice
commissioner Viviane Reding pulled the plug later saying it would have
incurred excessive costs of between EUR 41.5m and EUR 70m over
its five-year lifespan. For his part, Danish Liberal MEP Morten Lokkegaard says the move has
nothing to do with austerity because the commission diverted the money
for its own "pet projects." The deputy, who co-chairs parliament's culture committee, is also
annoyed that Reding did not follow protocol. The culture committee has put EUR 4.5m of the EU's 2012 budget "in
reserve" until the commission re-establishes the EU TV project,
discloses all the contracts benefitting from the old EUR 8.7m and
puts out a comprehensive communication strategy.
(EU Observer)
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Free handbook helps journalists use data to improve the news
The Data Journalism Handbook is a free, open-source book that aims to help journalists to use data to improve the news. It will be launched on Saturday 28th April, at Italy’s leading journalism event, the International Journalism Festival in Perugia, which attracts thousands of journalists from around the world for a week of talks and workshops.
The Data Journalism Handbook is an initiative of the European Journalism Centre and the Open Knowledge Foundation.
Posted on April 26, 2012 by EJC
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Press Freedom Debate with 2012 Médaille Charlemagne recipient Novaya Gazeta
At the request of the City of Maastricht, and in cooperation with the Foundation Médaille Charlemagne of which Maastricht is a member, the European Journalism Centre will host a Press Freedom Debate in Maastricht on Friday 11 May.
The Russian daily Novaya Gazeta is the recipient of the 12th edition of the Médaille Charlemagne. Editor-in-chief Dmitry Muratov will be participating in the debate.
Posted on April 19, 2012 by EJC
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ThinkBrigade multimedia reporting platform launches
The EJC’s new independent online magazine, ThinkBrigade made its online debut on 13 April 2012. A collaborative project centring on team-based reporting, ThinkBrigade aims to showcase best practices of multimedia reporting when covering global topics.
It will be run by a collaboration-driven team of 35 international reporters.
Posted on April 17, 2012 by EJC
Filed under website.
Poynter News University and EJC launch innovative new e-learning course
The Poynter Institute’s News University and the European Journalism Centre jointly announced the launch of “Reporting & Writing About Development in the World,” an innovative three-month e-learning course for 40 journalism students from the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia.
The course introduces students to the fundamentals of covering international development and is funded by the European Commission’s V4Aid project, which promotes awareness of development issues in the European Union’s new member states.
Posted on March 27, 2012 by EJC
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Diving into Data: The School of Data Journalism at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia
The European Journalism Centre and the Open Knowledge Foundation are pleased to invite you to the School of Data Journalism hosted at the sixth edition of Italy’s leading journalism event, the International Journalism Festival. The 2012 edition takes place in the beautiful city of Perugia between 25-29 April.
Entry to the School of Data Journalism panels and workshops is free.
Posted on February 7, 2012 by EJC
Filed under events.
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How will technologies like the Internet and innovations in digital media change the way we tell stories? The recent Story Hack: Beta event at the New York Lincoln Center gave writers, designers, filmmakers and developers the opportunity to redefine storytelling by working and playing in “transmedia” - stories that are not confined to a single narrative medium. Participants were asked to form teams and design a storytelling model spanning three or more technological platforms and use it to create a cohesive narrative, all over the course of 24 hours.
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Amid Pakistan’s roller coaster relationship with the United States, especially on the subject of the war on terror, a capacity building exchange programme for journalists had been riding quite smoothly. The U.S.-Pakistan Professional Partnership in Journalism programme, funded by the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA), aims at training journalists in giving audiences both in Pakistan and the United States a more balanced picture of life and events in each other’s countries and dispelling existing myths and misperceptions.
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