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Not down, not out, not yet

on 20 Feb 2009

What with reports of newspapers being in survival mode, websites like Paper Cuts twisting the blade, Twitter channels like The Media is Dying dancing on the grave and research that reads like an obituary, any sane journalist must be thinking of shutting up shop, going home and seriously mulling their...more


Max Stahl documenting East Timor

on 05 Dec 2008

British journalist and filmaker Max Stahl has been documenting the history of East Timor since the 1991 massacre at Dili's Santa Cruz cemetery. He calls it is "his life's mission" to give the fledgling country an audio visual record of its recent history. To that end he has set...more


The places we live

on 23 Oct 2008

Jonas Bendiksen publishes the latest Magnum in Motion project today. Called The places we live, the project focusses on people who live in four slums across the world; from Caracas to the large Kibera slum in Nairobi, the Dharavi slum in the suburbs of Mumbai and the Indonesian capital...more


Peace not war

on 13 Jun 2008

In Jakarta, Indonesia the government is trying to encourage the national press to put the focus on peace journalism and not war journalism, "It would be better for the national press not merely to develop war journalism such as communal violence or clashes," Henry Subiakto, assistant for mass media to...more