By Tim Conneally, Betanews Responding to widespread civil unrest, the government of Egypt on Thursday evening ordered all private network operators to shut down their services, both wired and wireless.At around 12:30am local time, Egypt's outbound connections to the Internet hit a brick wall, and fell approximately 80%. Both BGP Mon and Renesys observed similar withdrawals of Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) routes in Egypt.A statement from Vodafone, the British telecommunications company responsible for one of Egypt's three major cellular networks, said all mobile operators, likewise, were instructed to suspend service in areas where anti-government protests were taking place."Under Egyptian legislation, the authorities have the right to issue such an order and we are obliged to comply with it. The Egyptian authorities will be clarifying the situation in due course," Vodafone's statement said on Friday.Nearly 24 hours later, the communications blackout is still in effect."I have been able to connect with my family through landlines only, as the cell phones and internet were turned off," Dr. Ibrahim Karim, Montreal-based Author and alternative medicine researcher told us today. "[It] is really frustrating everybody."There is only one landline telephone company in Egypt, Telecom Egypt, which is controlled by the government.The blockage was done to thwart seditionaries and protestors who had been using social media outlets to organize activities and share information about the... Continue reading at 'Betanews'
[ Betanews | 2011-01-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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David Carr, the well-known media columnist for The New York Times, died at work on Thursday, the paper reported last night. He was 58.Although he often used his Media Equation column to spotlight people doing things right, it also cut to the heart of the players, tactics and forces so vigorously... Continue reading at Advertising Age
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Elsevier is launching a new open access journal which will accept articles across all disciplines. The as-yet-unnamed journal, which is due to begin this year, is designed to have a "streamlined, simple and intuitive article submission and publication process,", with authors able to track... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-01-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Arts Council England (ACE) has launched a new journal devoted to discussing "the value of art and culture". The magazine, Create, available digitally through ACE's website, features pieces from former prime minister John Major, novelist Naomi Alderman, and an interview with Neil Gaiman speaking... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-11-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Oyster, the ebook subscription service, is launching the 'Oyster Review,' an online literary journal that will publish original material on books and writing. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-11-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Online giant operates a rapacious near monopoly, the Observer columnist and Peep Show star tells Booksellers conferencePeep Show star David Mitchell blasted the monopolistic, cynical and frankly life-crushing way that Amazon operates to a roomful of booksellers.The comedian was giving the... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2014-09-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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At the Digiday Publishing Summit, Trevor Fellows, the Journal's global head of advertising sales, outlined five key elements to making that process less "painful." The post The Wall Street Journal’s guide to making great native ads appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2014-09-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Journalism is expensive. As big publishers close bureaus and slash staff, they're leaving major areas and big issues uncovered. And crowd funding platform Beacon has been quietly picking up some slack. The post A Kickstarter for journalism enters the big leagues appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2014-09-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Group SJR has hired Pulitzer Prize winners and is stepping up its international expansion to compete with publishers' native ad studios for marketing spend. The post WPP touts its journalism cred in battle for branded content appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2014-09-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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This week, the Pittsburgh Business Times ranked the largest Pittsburgh-area telecommunications firms. Click on the photo to the right to start the slideshow. The complete list of the largest Pittsburgh-area telecommunications firms is available to subscribers via the digital edition or on Page... Continue reading at Silicon Valley Business Journal
[ Silicon Valley Business Journal | 2014-08-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In the new era of digital media, everyone’s a publisher — celebrities, nobodies, spy agencies, house plants and, especially, brands. Building “the plumbing” for brands that want to be part of this new era, and ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2014-07-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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An experiment in digital publishing continues to evolve.Medium, the publisher-platform hybrid backed by Twitter cofounder Ev Williams, is relaunching Matter today. As you may recall Matter was a successful Kickstarter project for in-depth reporting that Medium acquired last year.Read Full Story Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2014-06-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Founder plans non-hierarchical newsroom and wants to build First Look Media on collaborationWith $250m in funding from eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and some high profile journalist hires, First Look Media has set itself the lofty task of reinventing journalism for the digital age, starting with... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2014-03-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Parnassus Books launches "Musing," an online literary journal featuring author interviews, book recommendations, and bookish news. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-01-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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There are new ways of doing journalism as the digital revolution moves on. But what are these innovations? How do they work? How are they changing journalism, and with what effects?City University London is hosting a panel discussion on 28 January to explore these developments and the challenges... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2014-01-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Randy Schekman says his lab will no longer send papers to Nature, Cell and Science as they distort scientific processLeading academic journals are distorting the scientific process and represent a "tyranny" that must be broken, according to a Nobel prize winner who has declared a boycott on the... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2013-12-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Regnery's children's publishing program has acquired a five-year license with Peanuts Worldwide, and will feature Snoopy and the rest of the Peanuts gang in books about American history, heroes, government, and civics. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2013-12-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Kaplan transformed the New York Observer and was part of the city's publishing elite during the magazine era's last golden agePeter Kaplan, who died on Friday at 59, of cancer, was an editor whose career spanned and encapsulated what one of his many employees and protégées – John Homans now at... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2013-12-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Site follows success of publisher's Buzzfeed-style social content site UsvsTh3m, which attracted some 3 million users in OctoberTrinity Mirror's new socially shareable data journalism project, a follow-up to UsvsTh3m, is to be called Ampp3d.Trinity Mirror has launched a Facebook page for the... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2013-11-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Local World's chairman, David Montgomery, has revealed his vision of the future role for journalists employed by his regional newspaper group.According to a Press Gazette report based on a sight of Monty's mission statement, a single journalist will fill a weekly paper by "skimming online... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2013-11-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Media mogul Rupert Murdoch's publishing company News Corp. swung to a profit in its fiscal first quarter -- its first financial reporting period as a stand-alone company -- but revenue slipped nearly 3%. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2013-11-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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