Archive for the ‘Shoptalk’ Category
Calling women media-makers in East Africa!
I know media-makers is a weird term, but when I look around, I see media everywhere. Journalists are the easiest to spot, but there’s also bloggers, video artists, crowd-sources, data-mappers, citizen journalists, aggregators, Twitterers, communications officers, project field managers, and more. And we’re holding a gathering for them all! March 20-22, come join us for [...]
Postscript: Women in Egypt
I’m slowly catching up on my podcasts. My piece on the Lara Logan media tizzy included a question, “What about Egyptian women in Tahrir?” The World’s Ursula Lindsay produced a program called — get this — “The Women of Tahrir Square,” which aired Feb 10. It doesn’t touch on sexual assault, but it make the [...]
Reporters and Rape II: Readers’ trust and trauma stories
But first, a quick news update: A Congolese colonel is going to jail for his sex crimes. It’s the first such conviction — and about damn time. Two thousand people attended the verdict and sentencing, and 49 women had braved testifying against him in court, according to the BBC. I applaud you all. If you’re [...]
On Reporters and Rape: Three ideas worth rising above the cacophony
There’s been a bevy of people with opinions on Lara Logan’s unfortunate trauma in Egypt. In case you’ve missed it, the chief foreign correspondent for CBS, was sexually assaulted in Cairo while reporting on the uprisings there. A lot of the response I’ve seen has been pretty mindless. There’s Nir Rosen, of course, and his [...]
Recommended Reading: On Darfur, Detroit, bad memoirs and perfect grape leaves
I’ve been working quite a lot lately, and I tend to balance that by avoiding this whole Internet 2.0 thing and going analog — does Kindle count as analog? — and curling up with a book (“book”). Or lots of magazine articles. I’ve been reading a lot, and I’ve got a few gems that you [...]
If you work in human rights, go to this talk
A few years ago, I wrote about Patrick Ball for the Christian Science Monitor. It’s one of my favorite stories, in part because he’s such a compelling talker, in part because this data stuff is so critical. Get thee to New York! Crunching Numbers for Human Rights: the Promise and Perils of Data and Statistics [...]
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