On Monday March 17 2014, the OpenITP Techno-Activism Third Monday‘s featured presenter was Professor Susan McGregor of Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University. Her topic was Journalists, Security Practices & The Future . The primary challenges that journalists face in adopting effective security practices in their work. While the AP phone records case and the Edward Snowden revelations have helped raise security awareness among journalists, the industry faces significant challenges in constructing a coherent approach to these challenges, including a lack of appropriate tools and training materials. The talk addresses these issues as well as some possible paths for improvement. Before Susan spoke, Magnus Ag of the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) introduced and gave away copies of their latest international press freedom guide. Video is below.

View on YouTube: http://youtu.be/tu0_ySgLgys
Transcribe on AMARA: http://www.amara.org/en/videos/MLtGds3uleQG/
Slides: Slides: http://bit.ly/1r19Teb
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#cjp, #journalism, #onternet-freedom, #openitp, #privacy, #surveillance, #ta3m, #tow-center

At the February 2013 OpenITP Tech-Activism 3rd Monday in NYC Nabiha Syed talked about online safety for journalists and small publishers. Nabiha co-founded Yale University’s Media Law Clinic, and since has been a Marshall Scholar at Oxford, worked at the New York Times as their First Amendment Fellow, and currently works as an attorney at Levine Sullivan Koch & Schulz, LLP. Video is below. Please try to find time to contribute to transcribing at AMARA.

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#journalism, #law, #media, #nabiha-syed, #openitp, #publishing, #safety, #security, #ta3m

The production of news increasingly involves the processing, analysis, and presentation of data. Governments and other organizations have made more data publicly available, sometimes through extralegal means, while newsrooms have simultaneously been adding new tools and acquiring new expertise to manage this flow of information. This conference, hosted by the Information Society Project at Yale Law School, will bring together working journalists, computer scientists, and media researchers to examine new practices and challenges in the rapidly emerging field of data journalism. Panelists will explore the increasing use of data in journalism; the role that news organizations play in mediating, curating, and redacting data; and the interaction of new practices in data journalism with First Amendment and policy issues concerning freedom of information, open government, and privacy.

What: Data Journalism: New Tools and New Challenges for Accessing Information
When: March 9 from 9:30am – 3:30pm
Where: Room 122 at Yale Law School (poster)
Register (free): http://datajournalism030912.eventbrite.com

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#big-data, #data, #journalism, #yale

The 2011 edition of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism’s Hearst Changing Media Landscape event takes place tonight, Tuesday Nov 8. It features a panel of six media influencers from Yahoo News, Billboard, Texas Tribune, Black Enterprise, Facebook, and Current TV, and is moderated by Sree Sreenivasan. It will be webcast live. Hashtag is #cjhearst

#columbia, #journalism, #media, #sree-sreenivasan