From the Bloomberg report on this study:
“Women represent less than one third of the main decision makers at news companies worldwide as gender inequality leaves top management and governance dominated by males, the International Women’s Media Foundation said.”
(Source: newsweek)
Japan has been rocked by hundreds of aftershocks since a massive magnitude 9.0 earthquake struck on March 11 at 2:46 p.m. Japan local time.
This map shows all aftershocks above magnitude 5.0, but you can also see a series of “smaller” quakes, starting several days earlier.
“Police now work in a YouTube world in which cellphones double as cameras, news helicopters transmit close-up footage of unfolding police pursuits, and surveillance cameras capture arrests or shootings. Police officials are increasingly recording their officers. Compared to the cops who beat King, officers these days hit the streets with a new reality ingrained in their minds: Someone is always watching.”
— The legacy of the Rodney King beating, 20 years later
In a sun-filled 7,200-square-foot space in the arts district east of downtown Long Beach, something extraordinary is unfolding: The record business is growing. Boxes long confined to dark storage see the light again. Bins brim with new and used CDs. Jazz swings in its own room. So does vinyl. Books too.
What is being reported as the largest pot bust in Mexico’s history, 134 tons of marijuana were burned this week.
As the nation’s army set the drugs on fire, soldiers paused to take photos with their mobile phones.
Photos (top): Soldiers take pictures of the flaming drugs with their cell phones. Credit: Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times. Photo (second): Such public incinerations are common in Mexico’s war against drug cartels. Credit: Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times.
reblogged via mashablehq:
With the help of Mark Coatney from Tumblr, we’ve compiled a list of news media Tumblrs to follow.
What’s your favorite?
If you pay attention to the tech news echo chamber, by now you may have heard of Flipboard, the iPad app which launched last night. It instantly lays out online news into a magazine-like format.
In the first version, Flipboard is what Feedly, the software based on Google Reader, promised to be. Flipboard goes well above and beyond. The layouts are beautiful and the underlying framework intelligent.
Due to its quick success, Flipboard’s key features — pulling in content from your Facebook and Twitter feeds, also allowing you to tweet or share from within the app — aren’t functioning. But the start-up promises those features will be back online soon.
Smarter personalization, too, is further down the road, but since the company recently received a healthy infusion of money, this is the software to watch.
Image: Flipboard
Oh, hey! We have an app.
The Los Angeles Times iPhone app is $1.99, available in the App Store (iTunes link).
