links for 2007-03-18

• China Post - China author, lawyers call for end to censorship
  "A Chinese author and three lawyers have condemned media censors in an open letter to parliament for banning the writer's latest book, and called for an end to all forms of "unconstitutional" censorship."
  (tags: china censorship media freespeech history)
• BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » ‘The web is preeminent’
  "Yesterday, Alan Rusbridger, editor-in-chief of the Guardian, told the staff of his newspaper that now “all journalists work for the digital platform” and that they should regard “its demands as preeminent.”"
  (tags: internet journalism media newmedia newspapers web2.0)
• Early sketches for the reinvention of the journalism production process - Editors Weblog
  "Rich Gordon, Director of Digital Technology in Education at Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University, argues the necessity to reinvent the journalism production process. And not only does he argue it, he actually outlines a new process."
  (tags: journalism newmedia internet education jmschku)
• 24/7 NEWSROOM MANAGEMENT PRINCIPLES FOR THE GUARDIAN AND THE OBSERVER at WHAT’S NEXT: INNOVATIONS IN NEWSPAPERS
  "Yesterday, in London, these points and principles of a new working practice and online awareness, were announced to editorial staff at the Guardian, Guardian Unlimited and The Observer."
  (tags: internet journalism newspapers newmedia jmschku)
• The RAND Conference, wrap-up
  Mahood in Bahrain summarizes what he learned at the RAND conference for “Creative Use of the Media for Tolerance and Understanding”
  (tags: media journalism mideast bahrain bloggers internet)
• POZ - Special Reports : Blood Money - by Regan Hofmann
  Feature about activist Gao Yaojie: "Gao’s efforts to publicize what she claims is an ongoing crisis—a blood-borne AIDS epidemic—have jeopardized her own health and safety; according to accounts detailed on her blog"
  (tags: AIDS china blogs blogging humanrights freespeech)
• EastSouthWestNorth: Taiwan Bloggers Organize To Save Losheng Sanatorium
  "This is an example of how individual bloggers can come together to form a coherent and powerful social force. But it also showed that they still needed the mainstream media to get their message across."
  (tags: taiwan blogs blogging journalism internet newmedia)