Thursday, 17 April 2008, 18:40
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"Electronic paper is Japan’s answer to rising raw material costs, depleted resources and booming demand for printed matter from emerging markets such as China and India."
@DNA2008: Who is getting it in the digital age?
Monday, 3 March 2008, 11:06
At the Digital News Affairs Conference in Brussels, Richard Gizbert of Al-Jazeera’s media programme The Listening Post asks a “on surviving the digital news age” to name some organisations that are “getting it right” in the digital age.
Here are the suggestions they came up with:
Drudge Report
A tiny three-man operation that aggregates news now [...]
Sunday, 23 December 2007, 10:15
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Oh Yeon Ho: "[W]e are in talks with a European partner to launch an OhmyNews site in Europe."
Tuesday, 2 October 2007, 10:49
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"Three of Japan’s leading newspapers said Monday they would cooperate in their online productions and distribution, joining hands to maintain clout in an industry under threat from the Internet."
Saturday, 29 September 2007, 10:03
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"Footage capturing the last, terrible seconds of Kenji Nagai’s life has been aired on Japanese television – horrifying a nation and raising official suspicion that the 50-year old photo-journalist was murdered by Burmese troops."
Saturday, 29 September 2007, 09:36
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"Japan strongly protested to Myanmar over the killing of a Japanese video journalist during an anti-government rally, and Myanmar Foreign Minister Nyan Win offered apologies, Kyodo news agency said on Saturday."
Sunday, 10 June 2007, 10:54
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Peter Preston looks at newspaper circulation figures: "Perhaps it isn’t demonic digitalisation that’s bringing us down, dear friends. Perhaps it’s just us - and what we produce. And perhaps we’re too damned morose about change."
Tuesday, 15 May 2007, 08:27
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"Net movement that shook up South Korea yet to do same here [in Japan]" Theories on OhmyNews Japan: Japanese people are too busy and value anonymity too much; Japanese media is hostile to UGC.
China-Japan tensions
Saturday, 12 February 2005, 15:09
With all the attention on North Korea, perhaps Eurocentric blogs like this one should be keeping a closer eye on the increasing “bilateral estrangement” between China and Japan.
The tensions are palpable at the elite level, such as the recent tensions over the Senkaku Islands near Taiwan. A lot of this has to do with access to potential oil reserves in the area.
But they are even more serious at the cultural level. Football matches between the two countries are not a pretty sight, and there are suggestions that “anti-Japanese nationalist sentiment is now being exploited to boost the Communist leadership’s waning ideological authority”.
Much of the Chinese anger geared towards Japan relates to the sense that Japan has not adequatly atoned for its crimes during the Second World War. A major sticking point is Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi’s visits to the Yasakuni Shrine in Tokyo, where Japanese war dead, including a number considered war criminals, are buried.
The Japanese are concerned about the Chinese military and arms sales to it by Israel and the European Union. And according to Simon Tisdall in the Guardian, Russia is siding with Japan because it shares this concern.
A UK-centric look at new media and online journalism.
