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Comment by Bo Wanngård on December 6, 2010 at 10:16

Our community worked some years ago with a PR-agency in Stockholm in order to produce basic ideas how to communicate - and why.
The result - now put in place - is a marketing paper. How to communicate to citizens, "the market" and fellow politicians the excellence of Sollentuna...
In the new "communication platform" you find the word democracy 3 times, brand 35, transparancy 1...
Yes we have a lot to do. And thats' fine. Just got me a Sony NEX-5... I regard myself as a craftsman telling stories. The new tools are nice! So was the Rolleiflex (picture) I owned back in 1956

Comment by Emma Brewin on December 6, 2010 at 9:45

It definitely is a global phenomenon Francesca. Thanks Bo also for your comment - really interesting to hear your experience.

I think journalists have to be agents of change themselves to survive.

Comment by Francesca Micheletti on December 4, 2010 at 18:39

It is comforting in a bitter way to see this comment coming from Sweden. Sometimes we think that press conditions are particularly bad only in certain countries (I can speak of Italy), while really this is a global phenomenon.

Comment by Bo Wanngård on December 4, 2010 at 14:17

Democracy is cracking down in lack of journalists. This is the case also in Sweden. Commercial journalism has reduced the amount of free words. In order to keep your career on track, you must not be seriously controversial. This is of special
significance working at local level.

Painting a dark picture?
Perhaps.
I have had my career. Combining journalism and filming. Now working at community level in Sollentuna, just north of Stockholm in Sweden. www.tvsollentuna.se Guess you don't get too much out of it as it's in Swedish.

After ten years at local level experiences definitely indicates that there is no democracy where there are no journalists. Most of Swedens some 290 communities lack journalists. But - they all have politicians and civil servants.

Is the situation I describe from my horizon familiar to you?

Comment by Syed Shukur Ali (Shuvo) on September 26, 2010 at 15:00

US lawmakers on September 24 approved a measure granting the Congressional Gold Medal to Nobel peace prize winner Mohammad Yunus, a Bangladeshi pioneer of micro-credit.

Along with the Medal of Freedom, which is awarded by US presidents, the Congressional Gold Medal is the highest civilian honour that can be awarded in the United States.

The House of Representatives approved a measure seeking to grant Yunus the honour on September 23 night.

The legislation, which honours Yunus for "his contributions to the fight against global poverty," will now go to President Barack Obama for his signature.

Yunus, a 70-year-old economist from Bangladesh, earned the moniker "banker to the poor" by promoting the use of micro-credit -- small loans that can help the poor build small businesses.

He won the 2006 Nobel peace prize for his work distributing the loans through his Grameen Bank, which he founded in 1976 to help increase the access of the poor to credit.

An estimated 95 percent of micro-credit borrowers are women, who traditionally have less access to conventional bank credit.

Comment by Angy Sonia on September 25, 2010 at 17:19

i agree with mr. Qomar. A good jorunalist is prepare a good content that make audience think, do not to make breathless audience :)

Comment by Angy Sonia on September 7, 2010 at 14:53

8 things we pay far too much for : football tickets, cinema tickets, cinema popcorn, train tickets, greetings cards, bottle water, parking and special occasion. Is it too much? i think just for simple communication.

Comment by Angy Sonia on September 7, 2010 at 14:49

Hello All...

Comment by Cristina Romero on June 10, 2010 at 10:10

I am currently working on a presentation about the future of journalism training in Europe at an university level. No doubt that journalism education should be aiming to the application of new technologies and production techniques. However it is also crucial to rely on a solid traditional academic background. I truly believe that journalism must and can also be taught outside the media.

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