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War 2.0: ‘Neutral’ observers, Blogs and SMS alerts
Mads Gilbert is a critic of US foreign policy and of Israel. He also happens to be a Norwegian emergency medicine specialist who is currently working inside Gaza. As a doctor, he has shown up in TV reports describing the situation inside his medical facility. But as a critic of Israel/US policy he is under…
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War 2.0: Israel’s post-journalism campaign in Gaza
Whatever ones views of the rights and wrongs, Israel‘s media operation to accompany its Gaza offensive has been an object lesson in the uses and limitations of War 2.0. Talking to a senior Middle Eastern diplomat yesterday, and to a friend reporting from (or stuck) in Jerusalem, there is a (very) grudging – respect is…
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The crisis facing newspapers: a small case study
What if you had a newspaper with a guaranteed geographic and social community, no distribution costs, no staff costs, and only printing to pay for. Could you keep it going without taking it online? Try and solve the real-life business conundrum below. We think that having an independent press has made a difference to the…