It´s todays hard media facts - it´s NewspaperIndex´ infoporn:
Andorra has no unemployment, which is just as well because they have no broadcast TV channels either.
China has the most workers, so it’s a good thing they’ve also got the most TV’s.
Indians go out to the movies 3 billion times a year.
The USA has more personal computers than the next 7 countries combined.
Americans and Icelanders go to the pictures on average 5 times a year, while Japanese go only once.
Malaysia has the lowest rate of cinema attendance in the world.
A three-minute local phone call in Ecuador costs 60 U.S. cents, 60 times as much as in Ukraine, Macedonia, Saudi Arabia, Nepal, or Uzbekistan.
Stats are from nationmaster.com
Digital printing paves the road for individual newspapers:
A German experiment will attempt to deliver readers their preferred reporters from their favorite newspapers… all in one printed publication.
The content comes, according to Dorsch, from media partners like the newspaper Frankfurter Neue Presse, the weekly news magazine Focus and the newspaper Washington Times. Publishers Holtzbrinck and Axel Springer also showed interest. Other media such as the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post and the San Francisco Chronicle, are still thinking about it.
From Editors Weblog Newsletter: Link
The editor of a women’s rights magazine in Afghanistan has been sentenced to two years in jail for blasphemy. The editor, Ali Mohaqiq Nasab, was convicted after a court in Kabul concluded that several articles in his magazine Huquq-e Zan were anti-Islamic. Correspondents say the case underlines the fragility of journalistic freedom in post-Taliban Afghanistan. It also highlights a struggle between religious moderates and extremists over what form Islam should take.
Mr Nasab was arrested earlier this month after he published a series of controversial articles. One of them argued that giving up Islam was not a crime that should be punished by death, as sanctioned by some interpretations of Islamic Sharia law. Other pieces criticized the practice of punishing adultery with 100 lashes and argued that men and women should be considered by Islamic law to be equals.
Source: BBC News
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4368704.stm
The strange and uneasy embrace between the Jewish state and America’s evangelical right is being tightened. At the beginning of next year Israel’s oldest English-language paper, the Jerusalem Post, is to launch a Christian edition. The Post, a widely respected paper until it fell into former owner Conrad Black’s clutches, is seeking to bolster its North American circulation by building on the blossoming relationship between the Israeli right and Christian fundamentalists.
More at Guardian
Click to view today´s frontpage:
The best online newspapers from Israel: Link
Did you ever wonder how terrorists communicate with the media? Somehow TV-stations and newspapers always know all about who blew something up - days before politicians, the police and clairvoyants. I will tell you how.
Often journalists do not reveal their sources. Sometimes because they want to protect sources, but 99 per cent of the times it is because it takes the thrill out of the story.
When you read:
“xxx-Post is in possession of documents that shows…†you can rest assured that the journalist have downloaded a pdf. from a public server somewhere. The writer wants to impress you, but only reveals how impressed she is with her own research skills….
Ok, the trick simply is to consult the official websites of known terrorist organizations. They really are very communicative, they might be hostile, but at the same time keen on telling the truth. Be the first to know - Get the story from the source - Here they are:
al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade
Hizb’Allah
Hizb ut-Tahrir
Palestinian Islamic Jihad
Kavkaz
Spawn of Finsbury Park Mosque
Salafyist/Jihadist
Caliphist/Jihadist
PFLP/PFLP-GC
China (this group has its own newspaper industry)
Some of the sites are in arabic some are in chinese, use Babelfish to translate the pages. Have fun.
European countries lead the world in providing freedoms to news media, while the United States lost ground in part because of the jailing earlier this year of a New York Times reporter, an international media-advocacy group said in an annual report. North Korea retained the last spot on the 167-country World Press Freedom Index for 2005, published Thursday by Reporters Without Borders. Eritrea, in the Horn of Africa, ranked 166th, and Turkmenistan, in Central Asia, came in 165th, the group said in an advance statement. Iraq was 157th on the list.
Source: The Hindu and The Associated Press via The Washington Post
And here is the list:
1 Denmark
2 Finland
3 Iceland
4 Ireland
5 Netherlands
6 Norway
7 Switzerland
8 Slovakia
9 Czech Republic
10 Slovenia
11 Estonia
12 Hungary
13 New Zealand
14 Sweden
15 Trinidad and Tobago
16 Austria
17 Latvia
18 Belgium
19 Germany
20 Greece
21 Canada
22 Lithuania
23 Portugal
24 United Kingdom
25 Benin
26 Cyprus
27 Namibia
28 El Salvador
29 Cape Verde
30 France
31 Australia
32 South Africa
33 Bosnia and Herzegovina
34 Jamaica
35 Mauritius
36 South Korea
37 Japan
38 Mali
39 Hong-Kong
40 Spain
41 Costa Rica
42 Italy
43 Macedonia
44 United States of America (American territory)
45 Bolivia
46 Uruguay
47 Israel
48 Bulgaria
49 Mozambique
50 Chile
51 Dominican Republic
52 Taiwan
53 Cyprus (North)
54 Mongolia
55 Poland
56 Croatia
57 Niger
58 Timor-Leste
59 Argentina
60 Botswana
61 Fiji
62 Albania
63 Brazil
64 Tonga
65 Serbia and Montenegro
66 Ghana
67 Panama
68 Nicaragua
69 Paraguay
70 Romania
71 Congo
72 Guinea-Bissau
73 Seychelles
74 Moldova
75 Tanzania
76 Angola
77 Honduras
78 Burkina Faso
79 Senegal
80 Uganda
81 Lesotho
82 Central African Republic
83 Cameroon
84 Liberia
85 Kuwait
86 Guatemala
87 Ecuador
88 Comoros
89 Malawi
90 Burundi
91 Cambodia
92 Qatar
93 Venezuela
94 Zambia
95 Togo
96 Jordan
97 Madagascar
98 Turkey
99 Georgia
100 Kosovo
101 United Arab Emirates
102 Armenia
103 Gabon
104 Guinea
105 Indonesia
106 India
107 Thailand
108 Lebanon
109 Chad
110 Kenya
111 Kyrgyzstan
112 Ukraine
113 Malaysia
114 Tajikistan
115 Sri Lanka
116 Peru
117 Haiti
118 Swaziland
119 Kazakhstan
120 Morocco
121 Djibouti
122 Rwanda
123 Bahrein
124 Nigeria
125 Afghanistan
126 Sierra Leone
127 Mauritania
128 Colombia
129 Algeria
130 Gambia
131 Ethiopia
132 Palestinian Authority
133 Equatorial Guinea
134 Sudan
135 Mexico
136 Yemen
137 United States of America (in Iraq)
138 Russia
139 Philippines
140 Singapore
141 Azerbaijan
142 Bhutan
143 Egypt
144 Côte d’Ivoire
145 Syria
146 Democratic Republic of Congo
147 Tunisia
148 Maldives
149 Somalia
150 Pakistan
151 Bangladesh
152 Belarus
153 Zimbabwe
154 Saudi Arabia
155 Laos
156 Uzbekistan
157 Iraq
158 Vietnam
159 China
160 Nepal
161 Cuba
162 Libya
163 Burma
164 Iran
165 Turkmenistan
166 Eritrea
167 North Korea
Here is an interesting mistake done in 1993 by the norwegian analysist and journalist Leif Oswold in the Norwegian daily “Dagens Næringsliv” - the largest financial newspaper. He argues why the Internet will be a failure because of “human nature” lack of ways to search information, and the fact that we will never see computers with Internet access in private homes.
The entire Internet hype, was in Leif Oswolds opinion started by the massmedia because they alone had access to it.
Update:
Editor at 1 Comment
Hi all, when having dinner this evening I was randomly reading a Danish etymological dictionary.
Surprisingly few words in the Danish language can be dated back to nothing else but plain Old Danish.
Most words come from Saxon, Old English and German. A huge group of words are common for the ancient Scandinavian languages.
But some words like “hav” (ocean) or “grød” (porridge) can solely be tracked down to its Danish roots. Now what is funny about the word “grød” is that it transformed into “gröt” in Old Saxon, from there to “gröz” in Old German - and again to Modern German as “gross”. But before that Flemish had adopted the porridge as “groot” which inspired the Old Frisian language to make up the word “grat”.
Somehow the word got picked up by Old English as “grëat” - the predecessor of the word “great” as in “Great Britain” and “Great Balls of Fire”.
Now you know - remember you read it first at Newspaper Index´ blog. Stay tuned.. More Old Danish? - Read the first newspaper in danish - scanned, blogged and online.
Update: 21/10
Due to an overwhelming response to this important topic I feel obliged to inform you about two more words that have no other origin than Old Danish:
“Æde” (to eat) and “øde” (deserted)
As newspapers fight declining circulation and face rising newsprint costs — and their corporate owners demand wider profit margins — editors, publishers, reporters and technologists have worked over the past few years to devise new, paperless ways to deliver the news.
But the change stretches beyond the physical delivery system. Reread the preceding paragraph. The tone is formal and authoritative. It is aloof and addresses no one in particular, as in a textbook or a lecture. It is newspapery.
“I throw down our local fiber newspaper in disgust, and exclaim to my husband (the subscriber), as I do most days, ‘I’m going upstairs, online, for the real news.’ “
Read Frank Ahrens story at Bizreport.com
Danish Muslims have strongly condemned one of the country’s largest newspapers for publishing drawings of the Prophet Muhammad, writes Al-Jazeera.net.
A group of 16 Muslim organisations issued a statement on Wednesday demanding that Jyllands-Posten apologise for printing the drawings.
“The newspaper has with its action deliberately stepped on Islam’s ethical and moral values with the purpose of contempt and ridiculing Muslims’ feelings, their holy sites and their religious symbols,” the group said.
See two of the drawings below or here: Link
Entire story at Al-Jazeera.net
Daily newspaper Jyllands-Posten is facing accusations that it deliberately provoked and insulted Muslims by publishing twelve cartoons featuring the prophet Mohammed. - Islam bans depictions of Prophet Muhammad.
The newspaper urged cartoonists to send in drawings of the prophet, after an author complained that nobody dared to illustrate his book on Mohammed. The author claimed that illustrators feared that extremist Muslims would find it sacrilegious to break the Islamic ban on depicting Mohammed.
Prophet Muhammed. By: Rasmus Sand Høyer
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Mike from the Mediadrop writes:
You know those times when you see a headline and it’s funny to you, but you realize it probably isn’t to most of the population?
“Microsoft, Yahoo to lol as bff on IM”: Link
Other headlines of the week: Link
schlechte träume wahr werden…
stolen from feelosophee
The Guardian had its biggest-ever daily sale last week as the Berliner relaunch pushed the paper back above 400,000.
Last Saturday’s sales are said to have beaten the previous record, for the Saturday after September 11, 2001, by 29,000. The redesigned paper was helped by a DVD giveaway of The Madness of King George.
http://media.guardian.co.uk/presspublishing/story/0,7495,1587336,00.html
Via VisualEditors.com
Mike has send me a tip about the blog Collision Commentary. It is maintained by a group of people all over the world. Their goal isl to provide an outlet for all perspectives from all people in all places - thats a lot!
Take a look at http://www.collisioncommentary.com
Here is another launch of political newsletter: The Lebanese Al Nabad political newsletter:
“AL Nabad newsletter was created by a group of students seeking the welfare of the lebanese community. The main goal of this newsletter is to give the readers the right information about all the subject that we encounter in our daily life.”
The newsletter has an extensive debate section and a very nice design. You can find it here: Link
Here is how to impress your friends next time the discussion is about Newspaper sizes and formats. Simply step forward and say:
“Le Monde is in the “Berliner” or “midi” format. The Guardian is in the British broadsheet format (or was, until September 2005), whereas the Daily Mail is a tabloid, and The Times a “compact”. - Berliner Zeitung and Neues Deutschland are of sizes between broadsheet and Berliner. Now you know.” Then get distracted and consult your PDA.
The French daily Le Figaro will appear completely redesigned as of Monday. “It’s not a revolution, it’s an evolution”, said Francis Morel, general director at Le Figaro, reports Le Monde. The goal is to increase readership, especially among women and younger readers (average age of reader is said to be 55-57 years) and to encourage occasional readers to become regular ones.
editorsweblog.org: France: Le Figaro slims down in new design
Click to read and view print edition online:
Take a look at the most important french online newspapers.
There’s been a lot of speculation that Google’s bid to provide free WiFi is aimed at telecoms and ISPs. But the real target may be your local newspaper, already hard hit by electronic media. Could it push some local papers into the financial abyss, asks Preson Gralla from www.networkingpipeline.com. Read his article here: Link
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