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What Facebooks latest updates mean for journalists
Sean Miles
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Facebook has released several updates in the last month that will affect how journalists use the platform for reporting and storytelling. Many of these new features will make it easier for journalists to distribute their content and keep up with sources of information. Read More...

The impact on Mexican women
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Journalists in Mexico are resorting to increasingly extreme methods to avoid torture, kidnap and murder for reporting on drug crime and cartel warfare. Reporters at Mexico’s largest newspaper chain, Grupo Reforma, have taken to wearing bullet proof vests, while many are moving to high rise apartment blocks to reduce the risk of being kidnapped. Reporters are also posing as street vendors to maintain life-preserving anonymity when reporting at the scene of an incident and using social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter to publish their stories. Read More...

LA ASOCIACIONES BNM Y UNIDOSPORELCAMBIO SE UNEN EN UN IMPORTANTE CONVENIO DE COLABORACIÓN
Mª del Mar de Paz
Article
Jóvenes de entre 18 y 25 años con experiencia previa en labores de cooperación, podrán disfrutar de 25 becas para la cooperación al desarrollo en uno de los campus más innovadores del momento Read More...

Blame the Media for London Rioters
Annonymous
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I’ve seen it before, unfortunately. And I guess I’ll continue seeing it again, because, for some reason, people don’t want to -- or simply can’t -- learn the lessons of history, human nature and the ways of preventing or stopping the criminal acts that are going on in the streets of British cities. Read More...

Murdoch case shows where US British journalism part
Sean Miles
User Generated
The controversy involving media mogul Rupert Murdoch's now-defunct tabloid, News of the World, sullies the entire journalism profession and gives ammunition to our biggest critics. It also presents a good opportunity to clarify the differences between mainstream American journalism and the shoddy work now under the microscope in Britain. Read More...

Remembering Ahmed Omed Khpulwak
Sean Miles
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Ahmed Omed Khpulwak, who has been killed in a militant attack in the Afghan province of Uruzgan, worked as a reporter for the BBC Pashto service. His colleague, former BBC World Service Kabul bureau editor Dawood Azami, knew him for almost three years and remembers a man who was full of life. Read More...

Al Jazeera English Launches
Sean Miles
User Generated
NEW YORK -- Six months after New York City news junkies flocked to Al Jazeera English’s website for up-to-the-second coverage of the Egyptian uprising, they’ll now have a chance to watch the 24-hour news network on its original platform: television. Read More...

Eight Job Interview Wins for the Record Book
http://www.businessweek.com/
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A former human resources director recalls some applicants who impressed their way into getting instant job offers. After revealing tales of job applicants who disappointed, disconcerted, or generally weirded me out in my last column, I thought it only fair to share stories about prospective employees who surprised me in positive ways. Even in lean times, job candidates who show that they know what an employer is up against and have insight into how to make things more effective are always in short supply. Here are eight stories of job-seekers who made good by standing in their power and helping employers see their value. Read More...

The tech boom is fueling a surge in jobs and creative recruiting
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Michael De Frenza scans the crowd of 50 or so well-dressed professionals mingling near a bar at the W Hotel in San Francisco’s South of Market District. De Frenza, a recent transplant to the Bay Area, is here in search not of a date—but of a job. In the five weeks since De Frenza, 34, returned to the area after a two-year stint in Toronto, he has received five offers. “I’m taking my time trying to find the right fit,” he says. Read More...

Journalists Now Use Twitter To Gauge Their Success
http://www.psfk.com
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Community “management” has become an essential online journalistic skill, according to a survey into digital trends. Evidently, an overwhelming number of editors and reporters now engage with their online audiences, and also manage them, within their own websites and also through other social media sites. That’s one of the main findings of the third Broadgate Mainland digital trends survey, which was conducted among 100 British financial and business journalists. Read More...