The most effective ways for journalists to use Facebook -
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Christina Pomoni
Maybe the most important quality of the interactive Web for journalists is the prospect to connect with their audiences through social networking websites. Journalists have begun to realize the immense potential of social networking as a reader-interaction, news-collection and information-dissemination tool. Today, all this is...
What is collaborative journalism? -
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Christina Pomoni
Technological progress and the paradigm shift from traditional media towards online media have altered the way journalists develop their stories, but also the relationships between news organizations, journalists and the public. Newsgathering, production and distribution are typically integrated in an online environment because of the...
Essential skills for a digital journalist -
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Christina Pomoni
As the digital age puts a growing pressure on traditional print media, journalists need to retool their skills in order to maintain a first class seat to the sorting out of the news industry without having to agonize about their jobs. However, more than retooling...
Human right activist protest against corruption -
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Victor Ulasi
Just another quest to fight corruption and ensure justice in Nigeria, the Civil Right Congress has launched a road show of 150 kilometer in the protest against bribery and corruption with some top Government Officers and Multinational companies. The road show was done at the...
Nigeria is unfair to Niger Delta – Bankole -
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Victor Ulasi
Nigeria is unfair to Niger Delta – Bankole The real war of N/Delta has just begun – Namadi Sambo The Speaker of House of Representative Honorable Dimeji Bankole has said that Nigeria is unfair to Niger Delta as the resources that develops Nigeria comes from...
HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORT- 2009 -
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K.R.SURENDRAN
Increasing mobility is not a new phenomenon. The process which started slowly with the developments in the fields of science and technology gradually evolved into lightning speed around the world. It had its repercussions both - good and bad. Alvin Toffler had conducted a detailed...
Beetles T-Shirt Causes Stir in Shari’a Court of Nigeria -
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Victor Ulasi
In Kaduna and other states in the North where they operate, the CRC under Shehu Sani used to defy all odds and stand in defense of the down trodden especially in courts, as was exemplified when they worked to mobilize lawyers to stand for Baba...
Free Media and Journalistic Hypocrisy -
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Farman Nawaz
There is no doubt that democracy is the best revenge but in third world countries where there is lack of technology, education, tolerance, broadmindedness, industrial development and even social values, democracy is a license to abuse one another. People of Pakistan are observing this since...
Dollar under scrutiny at G20 summit -
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Victor Ulasi
PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania (AFP) – The embattled US dollar is expected to come under scrutiny at a summit of developing and industrialized nations following China-led calls to review its role as a reserve currency. The dollar issue is bound to surface at the two-day meeting in...
Kaduna Discovers Fresh Cases of Wild Polio Virus -
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Victor Ulasi
In Kaduna state, about 17 cases of Wild Polio Virus (WPV)were recently discovered, the state Commissioner for Health, Dr. Everton Yari Peters has said. He spoke during the 18th Expert Review Committee meeting on polio eradication on Thursday in Kaduna, adding that efforts were continuously...
Is Obama Pushing Israel Toward War? -
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Victor Ulasi
Events are fast pushing Israel toward a pre-emptive military strike on Iran's nuclear facilities, probably by next spring. That strike could well fail. Or it could succeed at the price of oil at $300 a barrel, a Middle East war, and American servicemen caught in...
China could undermine US military power in Pacific: Gates -
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Victor Ulasi
China's increasingly advanced weaponry could undermine US military power in the Pacific, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Wednesday. Echoing US intelligence guidelines released on Tuesday that warned of Beijing's military modernization, Gates said US naval carriers and air bases in the Pacific faced...
Nigeria, Lebanon, Supports Suicide Bombings and Bin Laden -
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Victor Ulasi
A new survey gauging Muslim attitudes indicates that backing for suicide bombings against civilians, while generally down from earlier years, remains significant in some Islamic countries – challenging the assertion that Muslims supporting terrorism constitute a “tiny minority.” In the Pew Global Attitudes Project poll...
INDIAN CONGRESS........AND PARTITION.. -
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rid
By winning the elections congress has aquired the ultimate power and in charge of economic ,social development.Lots of people has lots of expectations from the ruler of our country.Congress has chosen its government and the prime minister.The access to the external and internal affairs make...
Female Dies In Crash - Hit By NFL Kansas City Chiefs Player -
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Joel Mclaughlin
Unfortunately a 61 year old woman was killed recently in a traffic accident that involved Richard Baldinger, a former lineman for the Kansas City Chiefs. Marilyn Walters of Grain Valley was killed at about 2:15 p.m. Saturday, June 27, at the intersection of U.S. 40...
ABC’s Nightlie -
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John Kozy
On June 30, ABC’s Nightline ran a featured story about how 26-year-old Neda Agha-Soltan became the symbol of Iran's struggle which can serve as a paradigm for the big lie. The death of Neda Agha-Soltan is tragic, of course, and should be lamented by everyone,...
How Much Longer Will It Take? -
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Admin@thesurvivalistforum.com
How Much Longer Will It Take? Jim Kirwan 6-20-09 Tomorrow will mark the Spring Equinox, the halfway point in yet another year in which we have continued to fail to act. It has been nearly nine long years since we sold our reputation for a...
McMenacing? Cop Accused Of Pulling Gun At McD's -
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Admin@thesurvivalistforum.com
McMenacing? Cop Accused Of Pulling Gun At McD's Written by Brian Maass DENVER (CBS4) A Denver police officer has been suspended after allegedly brandishing his gun at a McDonald's restaurant in Aurora after his order took too long to fill. Aurora police confirmed the CBS4...
Quality Digital Cameras At Knockdown Prices -
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Dan Feildman
Goneare the days when you had to waitfor the camerafilmto be developed to see yourpicture.Welcome to the worldof digitalcameras;. The digitalcameras;giveyou much clearerpictures witha number of advancedoptions for photo enhancements.In factyou neednot hire a professionalphotographer to capture the lively moments of yourlife if you own...