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Nov 11, 2011 • The following post is not a journalistic piece, does not fulfill the objectivity criteria defined by my profession nor is it in line with what I would usually write on my blog. But taking the circumstances and the person involved I felt compelled to do so. Sign the petition here and join the Twitter campaign...
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Nov 8, 2011 • Everyone has heard the expression: there’s three sides to every story – yours, mine and the truth. I recently came across this photo and claims of how it had been misused. It’s been suggested that Al-Jazeera and CNN cropped it to their liking with Al Jazeera making use of the first part of the picture...
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Oct 20, 2011 • One could think that a certain Winston Smith worked at Radio Netherlands Worldwide (RNW) by comparing the screen shots of its main news article taken within a span of 15 minutes. As reports that Colonel Muammar Gaddafi had died started circulating, RNW’s newsdesk rushed in to publish the news as a confirmed fact: ‘Gaddafi Killed’,...
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Oct 20, 2011 • Journalism stands for freedom of speech, fact finding, democracy, objectivity, among other values. Or at least it stands so in theory. US National Public Radio (NPR) has got a freelance journalist fired for participating in the Occupy Washington protest. The journalist in question, Lisa Simeone, has worked as an independent for shows like Soundprint and...
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Oct 5, 2011 • The Daily Mail is investigating how they ended up publishing a story saying Amanda Knox was guilty of murdering her former roommate Meredith Kercher. Knox’s acquittal for the murder of the British student was undoubtedly this week’s biggest story and every media organization wanted to be the first to tell the news. We were taken...
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Sep 28, 2011 • Alessio Rastani’s interview on the BBC went viral this week after the independent trader admitted to dreaming about another recession every night. His brutal honesty shocked the world so much that many believed him to be a hoax, a member of the prankster group Yes Men – who pose as spokespeople and corporate representatives to...
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Sep 22, 2011 • Almost five years ago, when I was in the middle-east I realized something about who I perceived myself to be. Someone asked me ‘Where are you from’ and without a blink I said ‘I come from Europe’. For years I’ve been a huge supporter of pan-European journalism, i.e., journalism reported from a European perspective. A...
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Sep 19, 2011 • Once in a while freelancers are asked to do tape-syncs. The process is simple: in the absence of a studio (or a budget to pay for it), freelancers will meet up with a guest some radio programme wants to interview. The freelancer will record this guest’s answers while the interviewer talks to him/her miles away...
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Sep 19, 2011 • Recently I went to an Amsterdam event by the Somali organization Hirda. Director Fatuma Farah travelled to her home country for the first time in 18 years. She took Dutch photographer Jan-Joseph Stok with her to portray the plight of over 1,46 million displaced people. They visited three refugee camps, where they heard from many...
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Sep 16, 2011 • The adjective ‘disastrous’ was used by the Dutch media group NDP Nieuwsmedia while commenting on a possible increase in VAT for Dutch magazines. The government will debate a proposal to scrap the current 6% VAT that magazines benefit from. But the sector believes this measure will lead to a 12,5% prize increase for consumers, which...
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Sep 15, 2011 • The British The Independent writer Johann Hari has handed back his George Orwell Prize and vowed to go back to journalism school after being accused of plagiarism. He is also taking an unpaid leave from the British newspaper until 2012. In his blog Hari admitted to have done “two wrong and stupid things”: one was...
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Sep 5, 2011 • Dutch cartoonist Adriaan Soeterbroek did it again: he has upset PVV leader Geert Wilders with another of his cartoons. Earlier this year Soeterbroek saw one of his cartoons removed from the website Joop.nl after a number of serious threats were made to some of his colleagues. In his cartoon he associated a housing policy proposed...
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