Δόξασε την Ελλάδα ως αθλητής. Αγωνίστηκε θαρραλέα για την ελευθερία της πατρίδας από τις γραμμές της Εθνικής Αντίστασης. Πρόσφερε πρωτοποριακό έργο στην επιστήμη της Ιατρικής. Υπήρξε κήρυκας της εθνικής συμφιλίωσης σε δύσκολα και σκοτεινά για το λαό χρόνια. Τίμησε με αξιοπρέπεια και τόλμη την ιδιότητα του βουλευτή. Έγινε πανελλήνιο και διεθνές σύμβολο με τους αγώνες και τη θυσία του για την Δημοκρατία, τη Δικαιοσύνη, την Ελπίδα και την Ειρήνη.
Το Matrix24, με αφορμή τη συμπλήρωση 50 χρόνων από τη δολοφονία του Γρηγόρη Λαμπράκη δημοσιεύει ένα εκτεταμένο αφιέρωμα για το έργο, τη ζωή, τη κοινωνική προσφορά και τη πολιτική δράση του. Μέσα από αφηγήσεις, μαρτυρίες και ντοκουμέντα ανθρώπων που τον γνώρισαν , μελέτησαν τη δράση του , ήσαν παρόντες στη δολοφονία του και παρακολούθησαν τη δίκη των παρακρατικών φυσικών και ηθικών αυτουργών του εγκλήματος, καταγράφεται το προφίλ ενός γενναίου ανθρώπου, ενός ηθικά ακέραιου επιστήμονα, ενός εμπνευσμένου και οραματιστή πολιτικού, ενός ελεύθερου νου. Παράλληλα, ξετυλίγεται μεθοδικά μια δραματική και πολιτικά στρεβλή περίοδος της ελληνικής ιστορίας.
Οι ιδρυτές της εφημερίδας, «Ντε Κορεσπόντεντ», ορισμένοι εκ των οποίων είναι γνωστά ονόματα της ολλανδικής δημοσιογραφίας, είχαν δημοσιεύσει τον Μάρτιο στο Διαδίκτυο μία δημόσια έκκληση για χρηματική ενίσχυση μέσω συνδρομών του εγχειρήματός τους, που στόχο είχε τη δημιουργία ενός φύλλου «ποιοτικού, που θα δίνει έμφαση στην έρευνα και στην εμβάθυνση στα θέματα, και τις εναλλακτικές μορφές δημοσιογραφίας», δηλώνει ο Βάινμπεργκ.
«Ήδη έχουμε συγκεντρώσει πάνω από ένα εκατ. ευρώ, δηλ. πολύ περισσότερα απ’ όσα υπολογίζαμε ότι χρειαζόμασταν για να ξεκινήσουμε την έκδοσή της», η οποία υπολογίζεται τον Σεπτέμβριο, δήλωσε στο Γαλλικό Πρακτορείο ο Ρομπ Βάινμπεργκ, αρχισυντάκτης της εφημερίδας και ένας εκ των εμπνευστών του σχεδίου.
Η «Ντε Κορεσπόντεντ» εξάλλου θέλει να αποφύγει τις παγίδες στις οποίες πέφτουν οι παραδοσιακές εφημερίδες με την εμμονή τους μήπως και δεν συμπεριλαμβάνουν κάτι που εμπεριέχουν οι ανταγωνιστές τους, με αποτέλεσμα οι διαφορές ανάμεσα στα παραδοσιακά έντυπα μέσα «βαθμηδόν να μειώνονται», διευκρινίζει ο ίδιος.
«Όμως αυτό έχει ως άμεση επίπτωση να υπάρχει όλο και μεγαλύτερος χώρος στην αγορά για τα εναλλακτικά σχήματα», επεσήμανε.
Για να γίνει κάποιος «μέλος» του σχεδίου «Ντε Κορεσπόντεντ» αρκεί να υπογράψει μία ετήσια συνδρομή στην εφημερίδα ύψους 60 ευρώ. Σε περίπτωση που το απαιτούμενο ποσόν για την ίδρυση της εφημερίδας δεν επαρκούσε, τα χρήματα απλώς θα επιστρέφονταν στους πρόθυμους συνδρομητές.
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Marion and Herb Sandler, a San Francisco couple with background in finance and involved in philanthropy, became increasingly concerned with the state of the journalism industry about seven years ago, and decided to fund the creation of a non-profit news organization focused on investigative reporting.
“We look at this as what you might call a public good – much like the symphony or the ballet,” said ProPublica Editor-in-Chief Stephen Engelberg. “The free market will not produce an optimum amount of investigative reporting.”
Watch below to find out how ProPublica and its team of investigative reporters (and developers) are evolving with the journalism industry while revolutionizing it at the same time.
Sitting in his office last week, Brian McGrory, the new editor of The Boston Globe, described the relationship between the two websites — similarly named, often confused, one free, one paid — that his newspaper offers.
“I’ve always thought that the success of BostonGlobe.com was inhibited in a couple of ways by Boston.com,” McGrory said. “One, is this sense that people don’t need to pay for our journalism because they were getting enough of it for free on Boston.com. Two, we haven’t used Boston.com to its fullest potential to let people know what they are missing when they don’t pay.”
That was Thursday. Six days later, the Globe’s parent company, The New York Times Co., announced it was putting the newspaper, both websites, and the rest of the New England Media Group up for sale. Following years of rumor and speculation, the Globe and its New England siblings will be the final parts of the Times Company’s non-Times assets to be sold off. In a statement, Times CEO Mark Thompson said:
We are very proud of our association with the Globe and the Telegram & Gazette, but given the differences between these businesses and The New York Times, we believe that a sale is in the best long-term interests of these properties and the employees who work for them as well as in the best interests of our shareholders.
The Globe that is for sale today is a different paper than the one that was on the block in 2009. Former Globe editor Martin Baron said the paper has continued its deep history of investigative journalism and is making the right bets in multimedia and innovation. “It’s a great group of people and I’m sorry they have to go through this disruption and tumult once again,” said Baron, now executive editor of The Washington Post. “They went through it once already.”
The Globe has produced Emmy-winning online video, was an early adopter of responsive design, and is seeing growth in its digital subscriptions. “It’s a group of superior journalists, they work very hard and they’re totally dedicated,” he said. “They’ve made themselves vital to the conversation in the greater Boston area.”
Perhaps the biggest change to come since 2009 — and perhaps the biggest new factor for potential buyers to consider — is its digital circulation strategy. It’s been more than a year since the paper digitally split itself in two, with the popular and longstanding Boston.com remaining free and a new BostonGlobe.com launching as a paid destination that echoes the print product in form and content.
The digital subscription piece of that model has been a slow climb for the Globe — each quarter has brought additional growth, but totaling just 28,000 paid digital subscribers at year’s end. Whether that’s a good or bad number is up for debate, but it’s hasn’t been enough to generate the kind of new circulation revenue that can make up for the ongoing print advertising decline. At the New England Media Group, of which the Globe is by far the biggest part, advertising dollars have continued to drop, to the point that, in 2012, ad revenue made up only 47 percent of total revenue.
The future of the Globe was already changing before the announcement of the sale, as the company juggled innovation in print and online to find new revenue. Boston.com has become a launch pad for new products, including the creation of an online radio station and selling event tickets. More recently, they’ve begun tinkering with how much Globe content to give away in order to entice new digital subscribers.
In a series of interviews from the last several months, a picture emerges of a newspaper with a strong tradition and local identity that is trying hard to find its footing in the new business of journalism. Now there’s more urgency to that mission. When I spoke with McGrory last week, he argued in very plain terms the past and future of the paper and its city are tied together.
“Think of Boston without the Globe,” he began, “Boston without the Globe is a place where Whitey Bulger is still dealing drugs and committing murders in Southie. It’s a place where pedophiliac priests are still getting transferred from one town, one parish to another. It’s a place where the probation department is still being run like a criminal enterprise. It’s a place where the Democratic speaker of the house is still trading influence. Time and again, the Globe has broke the biggest stories, every day, that are vital to this community.”
Two sites, two personalities
A big key to figuring out the Globe’s future will be to determine the right relationship between Boston.com and BostonGlobe.com. It’ll be from those sites, along with the print paper, that the Globe will expand its brand and its audience, said publisher Chris Mayer. “Diversifying the revenue streams is just creating more of an ability to continue to be steadfast in the way in which we want to support the mission and deliver the core value of The Boston Globe,” said Mayer. “Expanding the number of products is really a part of that.”
“Perhaps we have been a little bit too cautious in terms of making sure we don’t harm Boston.com. Perhaps by being cautious, we haven’t fulfilled the great potential of both websites.”
The state of play between the two sites is shifting. Boston.com is set to be redesigned, and it’s already seen a broad reduction in the amount of Globe content it carries. “I’ll be blunt: Right now, it’s a bit of a muddle between the two sites. There’s not enough of a distinction between what is BostonGlobe.com and what is Boston.com,” McGrory said.
McGrory’s only been on the job since December, when Baron departed for the Post. He said untying Boston.com from BostonGlobe.com and creating a clearer identity for the sites will help make a stronger case for paid content. “There are lessons to be learned there. Perhaps we have been a little bit too cautious in terms of making sure we don’t harm Boston.com. Perhaps by being cautious, we haven’t fulfilled the great potential of both websites,” McGrory said.
Boston.com — which draws around 6 million unique visitors per month, quite high for a regional news site — was always going to play a prominent role in supporting and marketing the new site. With that much traffic pouring through Boston.com, peeling off any of those visits would be beneficial to BostonGlobe.com. At launch, the newsroom allowed five free stories from BostonGlobe.com to go to Boston.com, along with any breaking news and sports coverage. Now that number has been reduced to four, and Globe sports columnists have been cut back. They’ve also tinkered with the free offerings from social media, dropping the number of free links to BostonGlobe.com to two per month, down from five. It’s a move reminiscent of when The New York Times reduced the free stories allowed through its metered paywall from 20 to 10.
McGrory said drawing a line between the two sites means changing the content. The new Boston.com will still have a share of community voices, entertainment, and social media, but the news content will be less Globe-sourced and shorter, with stories rounding out around 100 to 150 words. “There’s a perception that Boston.com is Globe Lite, and a fear on our part that people are saying, ‘Why do we have to subscribe to the Globe if we get Boston.com for free?’” he said. The new framing of the sites would have Boston.com being the “front page of Boston,” McGrory said, while BostonGlobe.com would be a reflection of the paper’s reporting. (That’s actually quite similar to the old framing, but the lines are being drawn more firmly now.)
BostonGlobe.com’s responsive design was ahead of the game, a move that is becoming more and more popularwith news publishers. But inside the Globe, the move to two websites meant adapting their workflow for stories, graphics, and multimedia. Jason Tuohey, editor of BostonGlobe.com, said that’s meant taking a less print-centric approach for graphics team: “They’re really pushing the boundaries with multimedia, I think, because they’re creating these interactive graphics from mobile up,” he said. “They’re creating something that works on any device, which is not how a lot of other news outlets operate.”
One example would be the recent 68 Blocks series, where a team of Globe reporters lived in the Bowdoin-Geneva part of Dorchester to tell the story of the neighborhood. The paper amplified that reporting through data visualizations, video, and other multimedia only available on BostonGlobe.com. The series is now available as an ebook, free to subscribers or $2.99 in various formats.
Growing the local audience
“The things that we can deliver that differentiates the reading experience is going to be either what’s happening geographically, or what is happening in this geography that is relevant above and beyond,” Mayer said. The Globe divided the audience for that into two buckets: people willing to pay for a newspaper and those who want news, information, and entertainment mixed with a little social engagement. Mayer said he’s happy with the traffic to both sites, but sees it as the foundation to continued growth. For Boston.com, that means finding new ways to engage with people, on mobile devices, new apps, and social media, he said. For BostonGlobe.com, the goal is exposing more people to the local coverage and unique reading experience of the site. “The product’s a year old,” he said. “What works — in the first year, it’s a way to build awareness and to get people to sample and then subscribe — is going to evolve over time.”
“They’re creating something that works on any device, which is not how a lot of other news outlets operate.”
Another area Mayer wants improvement on BostonGlobe.com is advertising. Part of the sales pitch to readers is its clean, distraction-free reading experience. By limiting the number of ad positions on section fronts and article pages, the Globe hoped to get premium rates for its online ads. Mayer said many advertisers are now looking for more granular audience data as well as tools to evaluate the effectiveness of ads. The fenced-in nature of BostonGlobe.com does provide for some data, as users are required to register to use the site.
But Mayer said they need to improve their ability for targeted advertising and offer new advertising experiences in different products. Jeff Moriarty, vice president for digital products at the Globe and general manager of Boston.com, said the company is developing responsive ads for BostonGlobe.com that would adapt to screen size just like any other piece of content on the site.
As happy as they are with the responsive design, plans are in the works to launch a native BostonGlobe.com news app for smartphones in 2013. Moriarty said they wanted to create native apps that feel built for mobile from a design and utility standpoint, not just a desktop site stuffed into a smaller package. That could mean shorter stories and customization not available in the responsive site, but also using device-based features like geofencing and background downloading of stories, Moriarty said. “It’s really about not dumping the newspaper into an app, which a lot of people do, but rethinking it,” he said. “The other reason for that obviously is to get access to the frictionless commerce of the [app] store.”
Managing the Boston.com brand
For its part in the two-site plan, Boston.com was supposed to play the role of infotainment provider. It’s not exactly a new job for the site, which was one of the early local newspaper portals when it was created 17 years ago. In the new plan, news updates would be short, slide shows, listings, and entertainment would be front and center.
“We’re going to try a lot of new things and see what sticks.”
Boston.com has also taken on the role of experimental money maker. Now visitors to Boston.com can buy tickets to Patriots games, watch live video shows, listen to streaming radio, or find town- or neighborhood-specific news. Another plan in the works is for the site to sell .boston domain names to area businesses. And, thanks to a recent grant from the Knight Foundation, they’re partnering with MIT’s Center for Civic Media to build tools to help connect with readers and report the news.
By experimenting in the open, Boston.com has become even more important to the Globe’s future by becoming a laboratory for new ideas to reach audiences, but also a pipeline for new products. “We’re going to try a lot of new things and see what sticks,” Moriarty said.
Popout
They’re also trying new forms of advertising, like the recently launched Insights, which allows local businesses to create blog-like posts that are published on the site. Part Yellow Pages, part BuzzFeed branded content (though the posts don’t appear in-stream with other stories), Insights is another way Boston.com is trying move past traditional forms of advertising to pay the bills.
“As we look at Boston.com moving forward, the advertising opportunities are going to change,” Moriarty said. “The traditional banner positions — though they’re valuable and they work — we need to go above and beyond to really set ourselves apart.”
“Except for the people who want every last bit of The Boston Globe, you’ve got a very robust, free website to this day. Which may explain why the success of the paid site has been relatively modest.”
Even as the sites become more distinct, it’s clear BostonGlobe.com will still rely on Boston.com as a source of both traffic and new subscribers. BostonGlobe.com gets a prominent slot on the Boston.com homepage to promote subscriber-only content.
“Right from the beginning, it struck me as an unusual and creative approach, but I was skeptical as to how well it would work,” said Northeastern University journalism professor Dan Kennedy. “They have had some success, but the skepticism hasn’t entirely vanished.” Boston.com’s news offerings, while lacking the range or depth of the Globe’s, might be good enough for many. If you can get your fill of breaking headlines and Red Sox news on Boston.com, why would you pay for BostonGlobe.com? “Except for the people who want every last bit of The Boston Globe, you’ve got a very robust, free website to this day,” Kennedy said. “Which may explain why the success of the paid site has been relatively modest.”
Kennedy said pulling more news content away from Boston.com could, rather than strengthening BostonGlobe.com, instead send readers to local competitors like NPR affiliate WBUR or The Boston Herald. Overall, Kennedy said it may be too early to judge whether the Globe’s strategy is working.
But the state of the Globe’s double down will likely be a big consideration for any potential owner. Particularly, a new owner will have to determine how much time, and capital, they are willing to invest to see if the two-site approach can succeed long term. McGrory says he believes the paper’s digital strategy is headed in the right direction — even if the mechanics of the sites need tweaking. “I’ve always had strong opinions over the years about Boston.com and, in the last year and a half, the byplay between BostonGlobe.com and Boston.com. Now I’m in a position to exercise some influence on that and its been quite gratifying,” he said. The new Globe, he said, needs to be able to reach people no matter where they are, even if they “are reading us as they stand in line at a Dunkin Donuts.”
“None of this works — none of what we’re talking about works — if we don’t continue here to produce really high-quality journalism that people want to read. We can talk about digital ’til the cows go home. But unless we’re producing material that people feel they need to read, want to read, then we’re screwed on much of the rest of it.”
Photo of Globe presses by Scott LaPierre used under a Creative Commons license.
Some 4,000 journalists are said to have lost their jobs due to the closure of several newspapers and TV outlets. Others are on the verge of closing. Διαβάστε τη συνέχεια του άρθρου »
Can democratic communities survive without a newspaper to provide them the civic information they need? That’s the question on many journalists’ minds these days?
But I think it more enlightening to flip that question, and ask again: Can newspapers survive without the communities they need to sustain them?
That, I think is where so many news organizations have failed over the past generation. In a drive to professionalize the journalism industry (and, then, to cut costs), we’ve cut our publications off from the communities they are supposed to represent. Διαβάστε τη συνέχεια του άρθρου »
The story of the news industry at the moment is the interplay between contraction and expansion. As publishers reduce the size of their operations, they’re also looking outward to new products, new coverage areas — or new geographies. The media map is increasingly global. Διαβάστε τη συνέχεια του άρθρου »
The Associated Press Stylebook is on a tech kick with its latest updates. Among the new additions, according to a note to online stylebook subscribers: Android, circles (as in Google Plus groups), flash mob, Google Hangout, hashtag,Instagram, Pinterest, Reddit, retweet, Skype and tablet. The User-Generated Content entry has also been expanded.
The updates were added to the online stylebook and emailed to subscribers on Friday. Since so much of online journalism these days relies on references or links to user-generated/citizen journalism pieces (photos/video taken at the scene by non-journalists or accounts of events shared on social media, for example), I wanted to highlight this addition in particular:
There are a number of challenges that face journalists handling UGC, most notably the issue of verification. Most broadly, do we know exactly what we are seeing, and how we have determined this? We should seek to tell the story surrounding each piece of video and audio and every photo we acquire with the level of accuracy people expect from the AP. This means tapping into our considerable knowledge base, drawing on the expertise of AP staff around the world.
Securing access to content can often be a challenge, especially in a breaking news situation when video or photos have been re-posted to social networks. You must always strive to seek the original source of the media you are seeking to acquire. Once that content owner has been identified, ask for permission to use the material, following all the established protocols the AP has in place.
You must always strive to seek the original source of the media you are seeking to acquire. Once that content owner has been identified, ask for permission to use the material, following all the established protocols the AP has in place.
When publishing UGC, you should make every effort to give due credit to the person who has created that content. Use the person’s name if he or she is happy for you to do so, or a username (from a social network or platform) if it is applicable or the preference of the individual.
The rest of the expanded sections deals specifically with how to reference the user-generated content and recommends language based on the type of format it’s presented in (video, text, etc.). The basic gist of these suggestions, which can be read in entirety on the online stylebookunder the label “User-Generated Content,” is to credit the source (and acknowledge that the source has submitted them/given permission to the AP to use them), and include an explanation of their relationship to the events (i.e. local activists, activist group X, a local videographer /photographer on the scene, etc.) and to explain that the contents have been authenticated or are consistent with other evidence, such as the AP’s own reporting, officials’ accounts of the event, etc.
Το 2012 έχει χαρακτηριστεί από πολλούς ειδικούς της επικοινωνίας ως η «Χρονιά του Twitter», κυρίως με αφορμή την εκτεταμένη χρήση του κατά τη διάρκεια της προεκλογικής εκστρατείας στις ΗΠΑ η οποία το καθιέρωσε ως ένα από τα κυρίαρχα κανάλια επικοινωνίας ανάμεσα στα παλιά και νέα ΜΜΕ.
Τη «σφραγίδα» για την καθιέρωση της δημοφιλούς πλατφόρμας κοινωνικής δικτύωσης την έβαλε αυτοπροσώπως ο πρόεδρος Μπάρακ Ομπάμα ελάχιστα δευτερόλεπτα μετά την ανακοίνωση των αποτελεσμάτων της κάλπης όταν έγραψε το περίφημο μήνυμα «τέσσερα ακόμη χρόνια».
Ηταν η πρώτη φορά που ένας πρόεδρος των ΗΠΑ ανακοίνωνε ο ίδιος, άμεσα, σε εκατομμύρια πολίτες την εκλογή, χωρίς να ακολουθηθούν επίσημα πρωτόκολλα δηλώσεων από το γραφείο του ή από κάποιον εκπρόσωπό του.
Η αλήθεια είναι ότι τα μέσα κοινωνικής δικτύωσης είχαν ουσιαστικά καθιερωθεί ως κυρίαρχα από την εποχή της «Αραβικής Ανοιξης» που στην ουσία ήταν το πρώτο ιστορικό γεγονός που μεταδόθηκε από και προς τους ίδιους τους χρήστες παγκοσμίως. Πολλοί μάλιστα είναι εκείνοι που λέμε ότι η λεγόμενη δημοσιογραφία των πολιτών «ωρίμασε και ανδρώθηκε» στην πλατεία Ταχρίρ, στις πλατείες της Τυνησίας, στους δρόμους της Βεγγάζης.
Πιο πρόσφατα εκατομμύρια χρήστες του διαδικτύου έγιναν μάρτυρες ενός ακόμη φαινομένου, αυτού της προαναγγελίας της επίθεσης των ισραηλινών στη Λωρίδα της Γάζας μέσω του λογαριασμού twitter του ισραηλινού στρατού και αλλά και της παράλληλης με τους βομβαρδισμούς «μάχης» που διεξήχθη ανάμεσα σε παλαιστίνιους και ισραηλινούς από το ίδιο μέσο.
Τα γεγονότα αυτά είναι αντίστοιχα εκείνων που καθιέρωσαν τους παλιούς κυρίαρχους του παιχνιδιού: το ραδιόφωνο, στα τέλη της δεκαετίας του ’30 και την τηλεόραση στις αρχές της δεκαετίας του ’60. Στην πρώτη περίπτωση ήταν η ύφεση και ο Παγκόσμιος πόλεμος και στη δεύτερη η live κάλυψη της δολοφονίας του Τζον Φ. Κένεντι.
Ισως μία από τις πιο συμβολικές εικόνες της δύναμης των νέων μέσων κοινωνικής δικτύωσης που θα παραμείνει ιστορική είναι αυτή που απεικονίζει τον Πάπα της Ρώμης να στέλνει τα πρώτα του μηνύματα μέσω ενός iPad από το Βατικανό.
Πέρα όμως από τα γεγονότα που πλέον μεταδίδονται με αστραπιαία ταχύτητα από υπολογιστή σε υπολογιστή κι από κινητό σε κινητό, με όλα τα προβλήματα που αυτό θέτει τόσο στην αξιοπιστία όσο και στον έλεγχο της πληροφορίας από κοινό και δημοσιογράφους, οι αριθμοί μιλούν από μόνοι τους. Την Τετάρτη, ο πρόεδρος του Twitter ανακοίνωσε επίσημα πως ο «πληθυσμός» του ξεπέρασε τα 200 εκατ. ενεργούς χρήστες σημειώνοντας άνοδο άνω των 60 εκατ. από τον περασμένο Μάρτιο, όταν αυτό έκλεινε τα έξι χρόνια λειτουργίας του.
Η καθιέρωση των νέων γιγάντων της ενημέρωσης η οποία είναι πλέον μη αναστρέψιμη θέτει τεράστια ζητήματα που αφορούν την αξιοπιστία των πληροφοριών, τον έλεγχο αυτών των μέσων, την ελευθερία πρόσβασης και έκφρασης, τα πνευματικά δικαιώματα επί του περιεχομένου, την πολιτική και ιδεολογική επιρροή τους στις σύγχρονες κοινωνίες.
Το διαδίκτυο στην Ευρώπη
Πρόσφατη έκθεση της Eurostat δείχνει, αφ’ ενός, τον αυξημένο βαθμό διάδοσης της χρήσης του Διαδικτύου στην ΕΕ αλλά και τις μεγάλες ανισότητες σε σχέση με τις ευρυζωνικές συνδέσεις.
Τα τρία τέταρτα των νοικοκυριών (76%) στις χώρες-μέλη της ΕΕ διέθεταν σύνδεση στο Ίντερνετ το 2012, στην μεγάλη τους πλειονότητα (72%) σε ευρυζωνικό δίκτυο. Το 2006, μόλις το 46% των ευρωπαϊκών νοικοκυριών διέθεταν σύνδεση στο Διαδίκτυο και μόλις το 30% σε ευρυζωνικό δίκτυο.
Σε κάθε ευρωπαϊκό κράτος τουλάχιστον ένα στα δύο νοικοκυριά διαθέτει ευρυζωνική σύνδεση, με το ποσοστό αυτό να κυμαίνεται από 51% στη Βουλγαρία έως 94% στην Ολλανδία.
Η Γαλλία είναι ουραγός στην ανάγνωση εφημερίδων στο διαδίκτυο, μία δραστηριότητα στην οποία επιδίδεται μόλις το 38% των χρηστών του Διαδικτύου στη χώρα, ποσοστό που είναι το μικρότερο μεταξύ των 27 χωρών της ΕΕ, όπως συνάγεται από τη μελέτη.
Στην Ελλάδα, σύνδεση στο Διαδίκτυο υπολογίζεται ότι διαθέτει το 54% των νοικοκυριών. Εξ αυτών ευρυζωνικές συνδέσεις διαθέτει το 51%. Από το σύνολο των χρηστών, όσοι κάνουν online τις τραπεζικές τους συναλλαγές φθάνουν το 17% του συνόλου, ένα 38% χρησιμοποιεί το Διαδίκτυο για να ενημερώνεται σχετικά με τον τουρισμό. Όσον αφορά την χρήση των λεγόμενων μέσων ενημέρωσης των πολιτών, ένα 59% των Ελλήνων χρησιμοποιεί ιστότοπους κοινωνικής δικτύωσης, ενώ το 10% γράφει και επιμελείται ή διαβάζει ιστολόγια (blogs).
Την ίδια στιγμή, κατά μέσον όρο στην ΕΕ, η ανάγνωση κι ενημέρωση από ιστοτόπους εφημερίδων αφορά το 61% των χρηστών του διαδικτύου. Το αντίστοιχο ποσοστό στη Λιθουανία φθάνει το 92%, στην Εσθονία το 91%, και το 86% στη Σουηδία, σύμφωνα με την έρευνα αυτή, για το έτος 2012. Στην Ελλάδα, το αντίστοιχο ποσοστό φθάνει το 77%.
Students at the University of California Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism took an eight-week crash course in mobile reporting, using iPhones to cover breaking news scenarios and conduct interviews.
After coming to grips with all the apps and gear on offer, students Casey Capachi, Evan Wagstaff, Matt Sarnecki, along with instructors Richard Koci Hernandez and Jeremy Rue, developed a handy Mobile Reporting Field Guide that you can download as a.PDF or free iPad app. The 46-page guide is packed with reviews of apps as well as all the accessories that make shooting news on the fly a little easier.
Here are IJNet’s picks from the apps that met the mojo road test.
Filmic Pro $3.99. Despite a few bugs, this app gives a considerable boost to the iPhone’s video capabilities, including adding audio meters, exposure and focus control. It also beats the native video app for recording interviews on a tripod.
ProCamera $2.99. Students found this to be the best all-around app for photos who found the lock-in features for balance and exposure good to have for snapping pics on the go.
Camera Awesome Free basic version. This video and photo app offers some quirky filters and social network upload capability along with the lock-in exposure and balance features of pricier apps.
Hindenburg Field Recorder $29.99. Specifically designed for journalists in the field, this well-designed app records audio, lets you mark points of interest while recording and allows for some simple edits. If you’re not sure about the price, you can start with the free version, which lets you record sound bites of up to one minute each.
1st Video – Video Editor $9.99. Calling it “impressive,” students said this iPhone app trumped competing editing apps, including Apple’s own iMovie app. You can use it to mix video clips and pictures via two video tracks, plus mix in up to two tracks of audio or background music. It can record voice-overs, and offers a script-writing feature, though the mojos note that it does require some prep time–preferably when you’re not on deadline–to figure out how it works.
The story of the news industry at the moment is the interplay between contraction and expansion. As publishers reduce the size of their operations, they’re also looking outward to new products, new coverage areas — or new geographies. The media map is increasingly global. 
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