Tuesday 03 November 2009
“REPRESENTATION NOW: THE SUM OF IT ALL” - conference - Madrid April 2010
“REPRESENTATION NOW: THE SUM OF IT ALL”SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY - MADRID CAMPUSMADRID, SPAIN FRIDAY, 16 APRIL and SATURDAY, 17 APRIL, 2010 "This international and cross-disciplinary conference centers on representation. The following are designated as “Areas of Interest”:News Media & Journalism: Representations of Reality Representations of Identity (Gender, Class, Race, Ethnicity, Alterality) Ethnographic Representation: Theoretical & Empirical Examinations Representation of Radicalism & Social Movements Representations of Change, Volatility and Crisis Self-Reflexive Representation: Media & Journalism Reflect on Themselves New Media: Representational Strategies & Effects Documentary Now and TV Verité Cartography Political Representation in the New Millennium."
Simon Mann gets pardon - predicted in Independent on Sunday
Back in March 2008 I wrote a piece for the Independent on Sunday saying my sources had told me that coup plotter Simon Mann had done a deal with the Equatorial Guinea government that if he gave statements and evidence against the real 'Mr Big' behind the coup he would get pardoned. It took a bit longer than I expected but he is now free
'Rubicon'
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Guardian's Ian Cobain wins Paul Foot investigation award
3 November 2009
Guardian journalist Ian Cobain has won the 2009 Paul Foot Award for his investigation into Britain’s involvement in the torture of terror suspects detained overseas.Cobain collected his award and a prize of £5,000 at a ceremony in London last night.
to read more: http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=44556&c=1
Guardian journalist Ian Cobain has won the 2009 Paul Foot Award for his investigation into Britain’s involvement in the torture of terror suspects detained overseas.Cobain collected his award and a prize of £5,000 at a ceremony in London last night.
to read more: http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=44556&c=1
Monday 02 November 2009
Editor of scientific journal sues Nature
2 November 2009
Scientific journal Nature is being sued for libel by the former editor of another science journal.Professor Mohamed El Naschie is demanding damages from Nature and journalist Quirin Schiermeier over a story headed "Self-publishing editor set to retire".The story, which appeared in November 2008, was accompanied by a photo captioned "Apparent misuse of editorial privileges has sparked calls for a clearer peer-review process across journals."El Naschie, who was editor-in-chief of the Elsevier-owned Chaos, Solitons and Fractals journal for seventeen years, claims the story was defamatory.to read more http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=44545&c=1
Professor Noam Chomsky's UK tour emphasises potential of an 'organised public'
02/11/09 By: Judith Townend New manifestations of citizen organisation are a cause for optimism, Professor Noam Chomsky emphasised at three public lectures in the UK last week. Chomsky, whose critical theories have been received with equally extreme praise and criticism over the years, drew attention to the concept in his analysis of US foreign policy dictated by 'mafia doctrine' and the 'virus effect,' inevitably touching on the media's hand in shaping world events, at last Tuesday's crowded SOAS event, 'Crises in the Unipolar Moment' To read more: [link]php
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