International

An upcoming competition will recognize the year’s best coverage of technology issues by journalists in developing and transition countries. Print, radio, TV and Web journalists are eligible for the 2005 Reporting on the Information Society Awards, organized by Panos London and the Global Knowledge Partnership (GKP). Application deadline: September 15. This year's theme: "Where is the money for...

GKP and Panos are pleased to invite submissions for the 2005 "Reporting on the Information Society" awards. The topic for this year is "Where is the money for bridging the digital divide?" Four awards of $1,000 each will be made for the best journalism on this topic produced by journalists in developing and transition countries. The winners will also be invited to participate in the World Summit...

The sixth annual Online Journalism Awards (OJAs) competition, the only contest dedicated exclusively to recognizing excellence in digital journalism, opens June 23, 2005, and will accept entries through July 20, 2005. (Enter the Online Journalism awards by submitting an entry here.) The competition is presented through a partnership between the Online News Association (ONA) and the USC Annenberg...

"Citizen journalism." It's one of the hottest buzzwords in the news business these days. Many news executives are probably thinking about implementing some sort of citizen-journalism initiative; a small but growing number have already done so. But there's plenty of confusion about citizen journalism. What exactly is it? Is this something that's going to be essential to the future prosperity of...

There's something inherently like the "Odd Couple" about the pairing of citizen media with a traditional newsroom. If citizen media is about being all-inclusive, with news as a conversation, old-line media has been about news coming from the mouths and pens of journalists, with the readers left to fend for themselves in the "Letters to the Editor." But when those old-line news organizations go...

Little newspapers, otherwise known as tabloids or "compact format" editions, are all the rage in Europe. Will they someday come to dominate U.S. newspapers? Or, while we were looking the other way, have alien formats already made gains in the U.S. market? Are we facing, in other words, the Invasion of the Broadsheet Snatchers? It’s no secret that U.S. as well as European newspaper readership and...

Two journalist from India and one from Sri Lanka are the winners of the 2004 Journalism for Tolerance Prize for South Asia, awarded by the International Federation of Journalists. The prize, supported by the European Commission, was created to promote tolerance, combat racism and discrimination and contribute to an understanding of cultural, religious and ethnic differences. Winners are selected...

Two weeks ago, I assessed the readability of the electronic editions of the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times in this "Press Box" column. If you're joining the discussion late, electronic editions differ from standard Web renditions of newspapers: Rather than throwing up individual stories from a long list of headlines, they impose the complete look and feel of a print...

The trouble with the future is that it never arrives–or by the time it does, we fail to recognize it as such. The Internet is one such creature of the future that now fails to impress. Had you told me 15 years ago that by 2004 I could retrieve any one of 13 billion pages of free content–newspapers, all the great books, dictionaries, encyclopedias, catalogs, weather reports, political writings...

Chances are you won't bother to read this article. It is just one long block of text, after all, unbroken by alluring pictures, snappy captions, or eye-grabbing infographics. You can't click it. You can't flip it. All you can do is read it. And reading a full magazine article – as opposed to scanning, perusing, surfing – is so twentieth century, so retirement home, so William Shawn. Hal Espen, the...