by Priyadarshini Sen | Oct 12, 2015 | Uncategorized
The roaring street is hung for miles with fierce electric fire. The ensemble of human intrigue, drama, power struggle and chaos is hard to overlook. In the urban landscape, amid straight lines and architecture or even its frenetic energy, people often lose themselves....
by Matthias Sdun | Oct 10, 2015 | Uncategorized
It is one of the most unusal success stories in the media business within the last two decades. What started in 1994 as a small printed punk magazine in Montreal has become a multi platform media corporation known as VICE media. Today the company has 1500 employees...
by Leah Craven | Oct 8, 2015 | Uncategorized
What I’ve learnt so far… Newsroom downsizing It’s happening, or has already happened, almost everywhere. During the five years I’ve been at my company we have had three rounds of redundancies. While we’ve been on this trip, two of the...
by Michelle Marinho | Oct 7, 2015 | Uncategorized
“Don’t mess with Texas”. This sentence is on t-shirts, cups, even on one-month old babies clothes. You can also find US$ 24 dollars t-shirts with the map of the lone star state and borders filled with guns. It is no secret that Texans love owning...
by Teodora Trifonova | Oct 6, 2015 | Uncategorized
November 5, 2009; Fort Hood, Texas April 2 2012; Oikos, California July 20 2012; Aurora, Colorado September 16 2013; Washington, DC June 17 2015; Charlestown, South Caroline These are some of the saddest dates in the new US history. Hundreds of Americans have lost...
by Maia Jastreblansky | Oct 4, 2015 | Uncategorized
“It was a painful and long process”, he said. He wasn’t talking about a break up, a move to a faraway town or an illness. He was talking about the integration between the online and the print in the newsroom of “The Washington Post”. The converge, the...
by Kipchumba Some | Oct 2, 2015 | Uncategorized
“Make America Great Again!”, Donald Trump’s campaign slogan, would make you erroneously believe that America’s best days are all behind it and that the country is fast becoming one of those has-been global powers like the Great Britain....
by Iuliia Mendel | Oct 2, 2015 | Government data surveillance
“We consider that any attempts to flirt with terrorists, let alone arm them, are short-sighted and extremely dangerous.” During the 20 minute speech of Russian President Vladimir Putin some journalists showed total confusion, some were smiling. “People laughed during...
by Jussi Niemelainen | Sep 28, 2015 | Uncategorized
There is no way of escaping The Donald. American tv channels had been obsessing with the Pope for a few days already when we landed in Chicago. At airports we would watch mute tv screens showing live coverage of places he was about to arrive to or had just left from....
by Priyadarshini Sen | Sep 28, 2015 | Uncategorized
It’s no longer a choice between violence and nonviolence. It’s either non-violence or non-existence—Martin Luther King Jr. But aren’t we steeped in violence today? With massacres taking place with predictable frequency, might displayed in order to address perceived...