29 May 2009
As with online broadcasting, the AIB is building dialogues with leading suppliers of the technology and services that are driving mobile data. These include the GSM Association, Nokia, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Real networks and RIM. We have already published a number of reports on the evolution of the mobile market and the need for members to engage quickly with the opportunities that it presents. There will be further information published over the next few months to help members decide on how they can best exploit the opportunities based on their particular situations.
Microblogging
The AIB is in the process of producing a member only briefing on microblogging including comments from the Media140 event held in London recently. Microblogging provides a means of tracking news, finding information and highlightling output. All broadcasters should be analysing the uses to which they can put this new tool.
29 May 2009
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28 May 2009
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28 May 2009
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We report on policy, content and technical innovation. Our consultants share relevant news and opinions about recent trends in the broadcast sector.
We provide details of important tenders in the media sector, funding opportunities and business leads.
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26 May 2009
Eighty Zimbabwean journalists have been given free safety training by INSI in four courses beginning in Zimbabwe and ending in neighbouring Zambia between March and April 2009.
Journalists work under constant threat in Zimbabwe under the repressive government of President Robert Mugabe. Last year several were arrested, detained or beaten up, and a photographer was found murdered.
“We are delighted to have been able to provide real, practical help to colleagues working in such a dangerous environment. They need to know how to protect themselves,” said INSI Director Rodney Pinder.
Journalists came from all the different regions in Zimbabwe and 60 travelled all the way to neighbouring Zambia to participate in the safety training, which included subjects like risk assessment, home and office security and improvised first aid.
Each group also participated in conflict-sensitive journalism workshops which were organised jointly with the safety training in order to provide both the practical and professional skills best suited to the situation in Zimbabwe.
“I gained a lot”, said one journalist, “especially coming from a background of being arrested eight times.”
The safety training was supported by International Media Support (IMS) with the collaboration of the Zimbabwe Union of Journalists (ZUJ) and the Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA). It was provided by INSI and a specialist from AKE Group Ltd and the conflict sensitive journalism workshops were taught by Media and Democracy Group and International Media Support.
INSI, a non-governmental organisation supported by news organisations,journalist support groups and humanitarian concerns worldwide, has now provided safety training at no cost to 1223 journalists and other news media staff in 20 countries.
26 May 2009
Deutsche WElle reports that German Family Minister Ursula von der Leyen is the latest and most prominent German child advocate to speak out against private television channel RTL’s decision to go ahead with ‘Erwachsen auf Probe’, or ‘Grown-up on Probation’. Von der Leyen urged RTL to either ‘stop the show or thoroughly re-work it.’
Yet RTL has said it will do no such thing and intends to air the first episode on June 3 as planned. The show follows four teenage couples who have said they want to become parents. The teenagers are given a borrowed baby to care for over several days and TV crews document their struggles to change diapers and quiet temper tantrums. The show poses the question: are these teenagers really ready to take on parenthood?
Criticism from child advocates has been building in recent weeks. German child advocates say the show exploits the young children who are being loaned out to inexperienced teenagers. The German parliament’s commission for children issued a statement in which it chastised RTL for using children as guinea pigs and for ‘exploiting children in an irresponsible manner.’ The commission urged RTL not to air the series. Germany’s Federation for the Protection of Children has also weighed in, saying it is ‘furious’ at the concept, which it claims puts children at ‘high risk.’ The show has cleared all necessary regulatory hurdles. RTL has pointed out that the babies are monitored around the clock by child psychologists and doctors to ensure that the inexperienced caregivers do no harm and that the parents are also just off camera.
