¿Y por qué esta noticia de juzgados no fue a la portada de El País el domingo correspondiente?

Todo en el caso es "presunto" pero...

Implica a una empresa española.

Son 119 posibles víctimas.

Describe un problema de salud, cercano a la gente.

Hay más suspense que en una película de cine negro.

Más drama que en Erin Brockovich.

Ah, que es Panamá.

Definitivamente, empresas de aquí, noticias de allá.

Another of those publications that will deserve to be read -and to be delicioused- in the next months is now available full text/open access (pdf). It is the inaugural issue of the Journal of Global Mass Communication, focusing on news flow. 

The issue is dedicated to Robert L. Stevenson, a classic in International Communication  Studies.  Some years ago, when I was lost about the methodological substrate of my thesis, his 80's book "Foreign news and the new World information order", edited with Donald L. Shaw under the umbrella of UNESCO, came to save the project and really paved the way.

The inaugural issue of JGC is guest-edited by Festus Eribo and H. Dennis Wu (who has also lots of interesting writings on international journalism). It offers the following contributions:

 

• Festus Eribo and Denis Wu

Introduction to the special issue on global news flows: a tribute to Robert L. Stevenson

 

• Folker Hanusch and Levi Obijiofor

Toward a more holistic analysis of international news flows

 

• C. Anthony Giffard and Nancy Van Leuven

Five views of development: how news agencies cover the Millennium Development Goals

 

• María M. García and Guy J. Golan

Not enough time to cover all the news: an analysis of  international news coverage in Time and Newsweek 

 

• Oliver Boyd-Barrett

News agency majors: ownership, control and influence reevaluated

 

• Farooq A. Kperogi

Guerrillas in Cyberia: the transnational alternative online journalism of the Nigerian diasporic public sphere

 

• Ye Xie and Anne Cooper-Chen

"According to Chinese media": news flows, the Associated Press and Inter-Media agenda setting

 

All of them, in the same pdf.

How is it to work as a photojournalist? Have you ever thought how it feels to take close shots of high public figures while they make a speech?

Gilles Vidal is a French journalist that has gained fame through his panoreportages: panoramic images/videos that allow viewers to virtually place themselves behind Gilles' eyes in order to see -moving the cursor- the whole scene he saw, as if turning around 360º.  

These high definition exercises help to better understand cameramen's anxiety when there is only a V.I.P. and many colleagues who want to take the best photo (hence: almost always).  

One example is the panographic video about Nicolas Sarkozy's visit to Airbus Union's representatives (5 March 2007). Then, the politician was still a candidate for France presidential elections.

It is also curious to see the King and Queen of Spain surrounded by a swarm of reporters squeezed into a tiny room in their state visit to France (29 March 2007). And then you can glimpse more dangerous situations, such as covering demonstrations with many people hurrying around.

The journal Liberation has published some of Vidal's works recently. Panographies or spherical videos are getting more and more common on the Internet, specially to show nice views.

 

Update (26 May 2008): How to make a panography? "By hand" or "by machine".

 

Con las corrientes migratorias internacionales, la revolución digital y la de los transportes, el mundo ya no está compartimentado de manera tajante en países, o en todo caso la noción "país" está mucho más diluída que hace décadas.

Por lo tanto, los periodistas internacionales deben prepararse para una cobertura transnacional y para un campo de atención etéreo y cambiante, donde la geografía y los idiomas sólo son un juego de palabras...

El estatocentrismo informativo (pdf) -me ocupo de lo que hace un Gobierno dentro de las cuatro

fronteras donde estoy destinado- tampoco es ya posible. 

La Asian American Journalist Association ha publicado una guía de estilo para ayudar al correcto seguimiento de la minoría asiática en Estados Unidos (cómo narrar con respeto y sin maniqueísmos las particulares expresiones de todo un continente dentro de un país).  La National Association of Black Journalists ha hecho algo parecido (en realidad, un diccionario explicativo) para cubrir temas de raza.