[ecrea] NGOs and the News

> The Center for Global Communication Studies is pleased to announce 
> the launch of an online essay series on NGOs and the News: Exploring 
> a Changing Communications 
> Landscape.<<http://www.niemanlab.org/ngo>http://www.niemanlab.org/ngo>
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> The series, produced in collaboration with the Nieman Journalism Lab 
> at Harvard University, seeks to explore the increasing activity of 
> civil society actors such as NGOs and advocacy networks and in the 
> news media sphere.
>
> To what extent do NGOs take on functions as information 
> intermediaries, working in cooperation with, or even in the stead 
> of, traditional news organizations? And what are the consequences of 
> this for the fields of advocacy and journalism?
>
> Each week, for the next three months, we will feature a new essay on 
> the subject.  An essay by Kimberly Abbott, of the International 
> Crisis Group, opened the series. This week we read an essay by Simon 
> Cottle of the Cardiff School of Journalism and David Nolan of the 
> University of Melbourne. And next week we will hear from Natalie 
> Fenton at Goldsmiths, University of London.
>
> We invite you to join in the discussion and encourage others to do 
> so as well. Please visit the essay site 
> <<http://www.niemanlab.org/ngo>http://www.niemanlab.org/ngo> to read 
> the essays and post comments. If you are interested in contributing 
> an essay, please contact me at the email address below.
>
> These essays are part of a larger project supported by the Ford Foundation.

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Nico Carpentier (Phd)
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