So why your message and who´s buying?

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Who manipulates the message? What is the dynamic of the journalistic message? Who controls us? Who has the power and why?

Ramón Reig, spanish professor and journalists, writes that the information discourse creates possitive or negative elements, according to the interets of power trying to manufacture a reality in the minds of the people.

A "must-read" if one is interested in the realms of journalism and mass communication. The saying: "Information is power" really comes to life with the examples in the book. In a way, this idea can be extended to daily reality. There is always an interest behind our message. We communicate to generate a reaction not for the sole purpose of stating an idea.

Groups of journalists certainly know this. They are sending the message. But why and to what aim?

Hello. Write your comments or ideas to jespinoza@gmail.com 

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This is a clandestine picture taken in the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam last weekend. I could not leave the place without having my picture. Just as you are admiring the art, there are live nudes as well. I huge lady was lying on top a pedestal. People were concerned with her presence. I avoided eye contact. I think she wanted to eat me!! haha

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A blog dedicated to provide useful information for journalists in the five continents. You are welcome to join the network.

Demand more of your stories

Spanish version: Exigale mas a sus articulos
English version: Demand more of your stories

Acid Violence in Bangladesh

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A pic of a person victim of Acid Violence in Bangladesh.
"Forms of violence might differ from one country to another. In Bangladesh, Newspapers are always filled with ‘hot’ news of murder, rape, grabbing etc. Now-a-days a new kind of violence is surpassing all the others. Rejection of unwanted proposal, dowry, land related quarrels etc is the reason behind all this violence," writes Tanvir Zahid Nayan.

Acid Violence in Bangladesh

Tanvir Zahid Nayan, journalists from Bangladesh, shares this week a news report on Acid Violence in Bangladesh.
This sort of violence, although pupular in Asia, is not so popular in areas like Latin American. It seems interesting to notice how some social problems are not talked about in other parts of the world.
Here is the link to the story:
Acid Violence
Tanvir started working with Meghbarta(http://www.meghbarta.org), organization for on line activism, as a web designer, reporting news, and taking photographs for the web. He also works with local TV stations making documentaries on different issues.

Brasil, Uzbekistan and Colombia join network

Adriano Koehler, from Brazil; Khurshid Raupov from Uzbekistan and Natalia Carrizosa from Colombia have joined the network this week. Welcome and we are waiting for your contribution.
Best.
Khurshid, 24, is responsible for International News Desk, covering meeting and seminars, updating newspaper's web site for Uzbekiston Ovozi Newspaper. He did his studies at the Uzbek State World Languges University, Bachelor, International Journalism, July 2003.
Adriano Koehler
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Adriano Koehler, 35, Brazilian, wrote on Economy and National Politics, but
he gave up. Now he writes on literature at Rascunho,
because he believes the Classics tell more about our time. War and Peace,
for example, still explains the Russians.

Should we have our own "Deep Throat"?

Mark Felt, number two in the FBI during the Nixon years now 91, said this week "I am the guy the used to call Deep Throat". This "guy" is the best well kept source of all times in the history of journalism. The debate reappears: Should we use anonymous sources to get big news? What about the recent anonymous source of Newsweek? Is using them not serious journalism? Have you ever had to use them? How? Which rules should we apply when using anonymous sources?
Please let me know your comments to post them.
Mark Felt confessed "I am the guy they used to call Deep Throat"

Two kenian and one brasilian journalists join the network

Olive Munyi, writes on children and youth matters with The People Daily in Nairobi, and regularly contributes for a kids’ column in the Daily Nation she chose journalism as a career because “journalism fits my outgoing personality”. Nuru, has been working as a producer for state-owned KBC in Nairobi for the last three years. Apart from producing a current affairs programme in English and Swahili, he produces a breakfast show in Swahili. Earlier, while studying for his journalism diploma, he also freelanced for newspapers for two years. During the period he covered conflicts in Congo, Rwanda and Somalia.
Coming soon, the profile of Adriano Koehler, a print journalist from Brazil who has also joined the network.

More journalists willing to contribute

Two new contributing members have joined the network this week. Kudzanai Musengi. His first experience in the media was during internship. On graduating Kudzi did not immediately get a job and spend some time as a freelance journalist. In July last year, he joined “The Sunday Mirror” where he works as a staff writer.
He hopes to get a master's degree in mass communication and venture into training journalists in future. And George Arceno. He believes in the power of positive thinking, an attitude he carries through his profession. As a 27 yr-old radio journalist and host at the state-run Philippine Broadcasting Service (PBS), he focuses on science, technology, population, health, housing, and jobs.

the beach and the feelings

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An overexposed picture of the northern sea (in the netherlands, holland) with some text on top of the sky made with basic elements in Photo Shop.

Two new members

Two new contributing members have joined the network this week. Nino Kopaleishvili, executive editor of The Messenger, an independent English-language newspaper in Georgia, former USSR. She is also a political reporter for The Messenger. And Tess Bedico. Tess works as a political reporter for a news daily, People’s Journal that is based in the Philippines. She has been with the paper since 1990 but started her journalism career working for various newspapers since 1987.

"Fact that is fact every day is not news; it's truth. We report news, not truth": Linda Ellerbee

"To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle." -- George Orwell
My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way. --Ernest Hemingway
Punctuation is the sound of your voice on paper. --Joseph Collignan
Internet publishing can be more powerful than print journalism, given its immediacy and lack of corporate or governmental filters. --Dave Winer

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. --Oscar Wilde

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Javier Espinoza
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Periodista de El Salvador, interesado en noticias internacionales.
A journalist from El Salvador, interested in international news. "Un hecho que es un hecho todos los días no es noticia; es verdad. Nosotros reportamos noticias, no la verdad": Linda Ellerbee.