BLOGpeBLOC / e-mail: peblocblog@yahoo.com: ŞTIRE ÎN VITEZĂ: Cică Sorin Ovidiu Bălan o ia pe urmele lui Sorin Ovidiu Vântu. Ne referim la afaceri, nu la drumul spre Parchet.

01 februarie, 2012

ŞTIRE ÎN VITEZĂ: Cică Sorin Ovidiu Bălan o ia pe urmele lui Sorin Ovidiu Vântu. Ne referim la afaceri, nu la drumul spre Parchet.

Poate îl mai ţineţi minte. Jurnalistul Sorin Ovidiu Bălan indica întotdeauna cu degetul direcţia în care o să pornească el către bandiţi. “Ţineţi aproape”, recita mai apoi, sacadat. O păsărică ne-a şoptit că în prezent, faimosul Bălan a ajuns la gânduri mai paşnice şi că a lăsat camera video în favoarea afacerilor. Cică lui S.O. Bălan I s-ar fi încredinţat, mai nou, paza unui obiectiv strategic al Statului Român cares este Gara de Nord din Bucureşti. Dacă este reală informaţia, atunci s-ar dovedi o dată în plus că viaţa e rotundă. Uite-l, de exemplu, pe Bălan: primele două tinereţi, ca jurnalist, a atacat ce era strategic. Ajuns acum la a treia tinereţe, nu mai atacă ce e strategic, ci păzeşte ce e strategic. Poate că şi imaginea din dreapta e o dovadă în acest sens. (Foto BLOGpeBLOC/ Măreşte imaginea cu clic)

(Opt militari americani, răniţi în Afganistan, în timpul manifestaţiilor declanşate de arderea unor exemplare din Coran)

U.S. military officials say eight American soldiers were wounded Sunday during a violent protest outside a U.S. forward operating base in Afghanistan's Kunduz province. The Americans were wounded when one of the protesters apparently hurled a grenade into the compound. The extent of the injuries was unclear.

The attack occurred as 400 demonstrators stormed the American outpost to protest the inadvertent burning of Qurans at the U.S. Bagram airbase north of Kabul. More than two dozen people, including four U.S. troops, have been killed since Tuesday, after the Qurans and religious materials had been thrown into a fire pit used to burn garbage. President Barack Obama and U.S. officials have apologized and said it was a mistake, but the incident has sent thousands of protesters into the streets.

Meanwhile an intensive manhunt continues for the lone gunman who shot and kiled two American officers as they sat at their desks in the Afghan Interior Ministry in Kabul Sunday. U.S. military officials describe the primary suspect as a "low-level" Afghan servicemember or government employee who fled the scene. But Afghan sources tell the NBC Kabul bureau the suspect may be a high-ranking Afghan intelligence official who has been reported missing ever since the shooting. (Source: NBC NEWS)

Ambasada Republicii Federale Germania si Romfilatelia cauta cel mai frumos desen pe tema "Prietenie".

Cu prilejul aniversarii a 20 de ani de la incheierea Tratatului romano-german privind cooperarea prieteneasca si parteneriatul in Europa, elevii incepand cu clasa a 5-a si studentii scolilor si universitatilor din Romania sunt invitati sa participe la concursul cu tema "Prietenie".

Lucrarea castigatoare va sta, anul acesta, la baza ilustrarii de catre Romfilatelia a unei emisiuni de marci postale cu prilejul aniversarii a 20 de ani de la incheierea Tratatului.

Evaluarea lucrarilor se va face pe trei grupe de varsta (clasele 5-8, clasele 9-12, studenti) de catre un juriu alcatuit din personal al Ambasadei si Romfilatelia.

Cel mai frumos desen va fi ales de catre Ambasadorul Republicii Federale Germania, Andreas von Mettenheim, impreuna cu Directorul general Romfilatelia, Cristina Popescu, si va fi prezentat pe 3 octombrie 2012, cu prilejul aniversarii a 20 de ani de la incheierea Tratatului romano-german privind cooperarea prieteneasca si parteneriatul in Europa.

Data limita pentru inscriere este: 29 februarie 2012 (data postei). Mai multe informatii, pe: http://www.bukarest.diplo.de/Vertretung/bukarest/ro/seite__zeichenwettbewerb2012.html

(Un “om al pădurilor” sperie proprietarii de cabane din Utah. “Lăsaţi-mi munţii în pace!”)

SALT LAKE CITY — He's eluded authorities for more than five years, a mountain man who roams the wilderness of southern Utah, breaking into remote cabins in winter, living in luxury off hot food, alcohol and coffee before stealing provisions and vanishing into the woods.
Investigators have clawed for clues, scouring cabins for fingerprints that match no one and chasing reports of brief encounters only to come up short, always a step behind the mysterious recluse.
They've found abandoned camps, dozens of guns, high-end outdoor gear stolen from the homes and trash strewn around the forest floor.
But the man authorities say is armed and dangerous and responsible for more than two dozen burglaries has continued to outrun the law across a swath of mountains not far from Zion National Park. He's roamed across 1,000 square miles of rugged wilderness where snow can pile 10 feet deep in winter. (Source AP)

(Ce se mai angajează în Occident? „Eschimos” pentru un snowpark! )

Vous avez 18 ans et vous êtes passionné de glisse… ce poste est pour vous !

En effet, à l’occasion des 20 ans de son snowpark (élu « meilleur snowpark de Suisse romande » en 2010), la station de Thyon recrute un « Esquimau » prêt à vivre deux semaines dans un igloo situé sur le domaine skiable.

Descriptif du poste : Vivre 14 semaines dans un igloo en pension complète, assurer un accueil convivial aux visiteurs du snowpark, animer différentes activités durant les 14 jours, relater son expérience via un blog et surtout profiter du domaine skiable ! Le tout pour une rémunération en avantage en nature pour une valeur de 12 000 euros. A pourvoir du 18 février au 3 mars 2012. (Source LeBlog L4M)

Powerful blast destroyed a police station in the northern Nigerian city of Kano, a senior police official has said, the latest in a series of blasts in the country's second biggest city since Islamist insurgents stepped up their campaign there. Police also found cars and vans filled with explosives in Kano earlier in the week - three days after the Islamist sect Boko Haram carried out bomb and gun attacks there. The sect has killed at least 935 people since it launched an uprising in 2009, including more than 250 in the first weeks of this year, Human Rights Watch said.
(Source REUTERSalert)

(Un jurnalist de investigaţie din Georgia a cerut azil în Azerbaidjan, după ce datorită articolelor sale, a executat o pedeapsă cu închisoarea în ţara sa.)

Georgian journalist Lazo Lazareishvili (photo), the editor of the newspaper "Metro", asked President Ilham Aliev for temporary asylum in Azerbaijan. This was reported by Lazo Lazareishvili at today's press conference at the office of the Institute of Reporters' Freedom and Safety (IRFS) in Baku. Administration of the Azerbaijani Presidential still does not comment on the statement of the journalist, and the Georgian Embassy in Azerbaijan has reported that the allegations of Lazo Lazareishvili are unfounded.

According to Lazo Lazareishvili, his request for temporary asylum in Azerbaijan was caused by pressure in Georgia, put on him in connection with his filing of complaints to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). The complaints are related to the arrest in September 2009 and sentence to 9 months of imprisonment on charges of "abuse of power", the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

The arrest of Lazo Lazareishvili was preceded by the investigation of the situation in the judicial and legal system of Georgia, conducted by the newspaper "Metro". The investigation revealed initiation of about 30 criminal cases against independent arbitrators the lawyers engaged in consideration of economic disputes.

According to the journalist, Georgia has a practice of consideration of economic disputes by independent arbitrators by mutual agreement of the parties. According to Lazo Lazareishvili, "the pressure on arbitrators was put to assign the functions of considering economic disputes to a British company." "Although, ultimately this intention was not carried out," the journalist has added.

Source: CavKnot (2012)

(Administraţia Barack Obama a anunţat oficial sfârşitul războiului de 9 ani din Irak. Bilanţul scurt al campaniei din Irak: 4500 de morţi din personalul militar şi cheltuieli imense care au pus umărul la agravarea crizei economice din SUA. Pierderile umane şI economice ale Irakului, însă, au fost considerabil mai mari.. Un eufemism pentru “imense”)

"After a lot of blood spilled by Iraqis and Americans, the mission of an Iraq that could govern and secure itself has become real," Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said at the ceremony at Baghdad's still heavily fortified airport.

Almost 4,500 U.S. soldiers and tens of thousands of Iraqis lost their lives in the war that began with a "Shock and Awe" campaign of missiles pounding Baghdad and descended into sectarian strife and a surge in U.S. troop numbers.

U.S. soldiers lowered the flag of American forces in Iraq and slipped it into a camouflage-colored sleeve in a brief outdoor ceremony, symbolically ending the most unpopular U.S. military venture since the Vietnam War of the 1960s and 70s.

(source: worldnews.msnbc.msn.com)

(TrustMedia şi Thomson Reuters Foundation au desemnat câştigătorii în cadrul Premiilor Kurt Schork, după numele unui jurnalist ucis în luptele din Sierra Leone)

Last month, the TrustMedia team and Thomson Reuters Foundation hosted the 10th annual Kurt Schork Memorial Awards in International Journalism. The awards are held in memory of American freelance journalist Kurt Schork, who died in 2000 while reporting in Sierra Leone for Reuters.

This year’s awards honoured brave reporting from Libya, Afghanistan and Zimbabwe, and went to Jerome Starkey in the freelance category and Gertrude Fadziso Pswarayi in the local reporter category.

(Se mai întâmplă şi la alţii: în SUA, creşterea numărului de sinucideri este asociată cu tăierile masive de fonduri de la Sănătate)

Suicide is on the increase in rural America--nowhere so much as in western mountain states like Idaho, Wyoming and New Mexico. Mental health professionals attribute it in part to cutbacks in Medicaid funding, to the recession and to the culture of the rural West.
In Idaho, somebody kills himself every 35 hours, according to a 2009 report to Idaho's governor by the state's Council on Suicide Prevention. Their report calls suicide "a major public health issue" having a "devastating effect" on Idaho's families, churches, businesses and even schools: 65 students aged 10 and 18 killed themselves in a recent five-year period.
Last week a county sheriff in Bonneville told the Idaho Falls Post Register that his department was getting more suicide calls than in 2010—a year in which 290 Idahoans took their own lives. "We're in a spike right now," he says.
Historically the suicide rate in rural states has been higher than in urban ones. According to the most recent national data available, Alaska has the highest rate, at 24.6 suicides per 100,000 people. Next comes Wyoming (23.3), followed by New Mexico (21.1), Montana (21.0) and Nevada (20.2). Idaho ranks 6th, at 16.5. Suicide is the second-leading cause of death for Idahoans aged 15-34. Only accidents rank higher.
Kathie Garrett, co-chairman of the Idaho Council on Suicide Prevention, says the problem has gotten only worse since the recession. "The poor economy and unemployment—those put a lot of stress on people's lives," she explains. To save money, people skip doctor visits and cut back on taking prescribed medications. Cuts in Medicaid have reduced the services available to the mentally ill.
(Source: abcNews)

Brüssel - Die Euro-Rettung ist nicht alles. Zumindest nicht für Nicolas Sarkozy. Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel ist am Sonntagnachmittag schon fast auf dem Weg vom Podium der gemeinsamen Pressekonferenz, als der französische Präsident sie noch einmal zurückruft. "Moment bitte, Angela", ruft Sarkozy ihr hinterher. Er müsse noch was zum Rugby-Team sagen. "Ach ja", sagt Merkel und kehrt zurück ans Rednerpult. Er sei natürlich traurig, dass Frankreich bei der Rugby-WM knapp gegen Neuseeland verloren habe, sagt Frankreichs Präsident. Die Verhandlungen in Brüssel habe er aber nicht verlassen, um das Finalspiel zu schauen, versichert er. "Nur die letzten zehn Minuten." Merkel tröstet artig: "Zweiter ist ja auch was."

So viel Zeit muss also sein, bei aller Dramatik, für die die Schuldenkrise in Europa an diesem Wochenende sorgt. Vor allem aber muss Zeit sein für ein Signal der Geschlossenheit. Denn dazu dient der Auftritt des französischen Präsidenten und der deutschen Kanzlerin an diesem Nachmittag, während hinter den Kulissen weiter hart um die Euro-Rettung gerungen wird. Im Vorfeld war viel vom Streit der beiden wichtigsten Länder der Europäischen Union die Rede, Euro-Gruppen-Chef Jean-Claude Juncker hatte das Krisenmanagement der beiden Staaten scharf kritisiert. "Wir sind uns der Verantwortung bewusst, die Deutschland und Frankreich tragen", sagt Sarkozy. Die beiden Länder müssten "mit einer Stimme sprechen, das ist die Basis von allem".
(Der Spiegel)

Ce este sexul?

Dupa medici este o boala, pentru ca ajungi tot timpul la pat.

Dupa avocati, este o injustitie, pentru ca întotdeauna este unul deasupra, altul dedesubt.

Dupa politicieni este democratie perfecta, pentru ca se bucura atât cel de deasupra, cât si cel de dedesubt.

Dupa economisti este o investitie proasta, pentru ca e mai mult ceea ce intra, decât ceea ce iese.

Dupa matematicieni, este ecuatia perfecta, pentru ca femeia ridica membrul la maxima putere, îl închide între paranteze, îi extrage factorul comun si-l reduce apoi la expresia minima. (Foto dj slash)

MONTPELIER, Vt. — Health officials say a radioactive form of hydrogen that leaked from a Vermont nuclear plant into soil and groundwater has reached the nearby Connecticut River.

State Department of Health Commissioner Dr. Harry Chen said Wednesday water samples from the shoreline near the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant last month tested positive for small amounts of tritium, a radioactive isotope of hydrogen that's been linked to cancer when ingested in large amounts.

Gov. Peter Shumlin wants more wells to pull contaminated water from the ground on the Vermont Yankee site. He says he's "very concerned."

Tritium has leaked from nuclear plants around the country. It's particularly problematic for Vermont Yankee as it seeks to renew its license.

New Orleans-based plant owner Entergy Corp. is suing Vermont in federal court over the state's efforts to shut the plant down.

(Source A.P., Photo people.com)

Заслушав кассационную жалобу адвокатов спортсмена, судьи решили оставить ее без удовлетворения.
Московский городской суд в среду без изменений оставил решение Замоскворецкого суда о заключении под стражу 25-летнего Расула Мирзаева, после удара которого в больнице скончался студент Иван Агафонов.
Сам подсудимый предпочел на заседании не присутствовать, его интересы представлял адвокат Игорь Дергачев, сторону потерпевших - Игорь Трунов.
По словам защитника, семья погибшего Агафонова - мать, отец и старшая сестра - вчера подала представление о предоставлении государственной защиты в СУ СКР по Москве.
- Я считаю, что у них есть все основания для этого, - подчеркнул Трунов. - Они могут подвергнуться провокациям с двух сторон в зависимости от поворотов процесса - как националистов, так и представителей кавказской национальности.
Как добавил Игорь Дергачев, о предоставлении защиты попросила и девушка Мирзаева Алла Косогорова.
- Ей поступают прямые угрозы в социальных сетях и по телефону. Она опасается за свою жизнь и здоровье и в настоящее время вынуждена сменить место жительства, - рассказал адвокат.
Кроме того, Игорь Дергачев отметил, что с начала процесса по делу Мирзаева он располагает всеми данными о личности Агафонова и о подробностях произошедшего конфликта.
- Мы специально пока не озвучиваем этого. Все будет подробно разбираться в ходе судебного процесса, - подчеркнул Дергачев.
Напомним, неделю назад Замоскворецкий районный суд принял решение об аресте Мирзаева до 17 октября.
Защитники известного спортсмена, назвавшие судейский вердикт политизированным, обжаловали его в кассационной инстанции. Адвокат Трунов, в свою очередь, назвал сегодня жалобу Дергачева необоснованной.
Трехкратный чемпион мира по боям в смешанном стиле подозревается в причинении тяжких телесных повреждений, повлекших смерть человека. По версии следствия, 13 августа Мирзаев у входа в ночной клуб «Гараж» ударил 19-летнего бывшего студента Ивана Агафонова, который скончался в ГКБ № 1 через 4 дня.

(Telefoanele mobile afecteaza activitatea cerebrala)

CHICAGO (Reuters) – Spending 50 minutes with a cellphone plastered to your ear is enough to change brain cell activity in the part of the brain closest to the antenna.

But whether that causes any harm is not clear, scientists at the National Institutes of Health said on Tuesday, adding that the study will likely not settle recurring concerns of a link between cellphones and brain cancer.

"What we showed is glucose metabolism (a sign of brain activity) increases in the brain in people who were exposed to a cellphone in the area closet to the antenna," said Dr. Nora Volkow of the NIH, whose study was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

The study was meant to examine how the brain reacts to electromagnetic fields caused by wireless phone signals.

Volkow said she was surprised that the weak electromagnetic radiation from cellphones could affect brain activity, but she said the findings do not shed any light on whether cellphones cause cancer.

"This study does not in any way indicate that. What the study does is to show the human brain is sensitive to electromagnetic radiation from cellphone exposures."

Use of the devices has increased dramatically since they were introduced in the early-to-mid 1980s, with about 5 billion mobile phones now in use worldwide.

Some studies have linked cellphone exposure to an increased risk of brain cancers, but a large study by the World Health Organization was inconclusive.

Volkow's team studied 47 people who had brain scans while a cellphone was turned on for 50 minutes and another while the phone was turned off.

While there was no overall change in brain metabolism, they found a 7 percent increase in brain metabolism in the region closest to the cellphone antenna when the phone was on.

Experts said the results were intriguing, but urged that they be interpreted with caution.

"Although the biological significance, if any, of increased glucose metabolism from acute cellphone exposure is unknown, the results warrant further investigation," Henry Lai of the University of Washington, Seattle, and Dr. Lennart Hardell of University Hospital in Orebro, Sweden, wrote in a commentary in JAMA.

"Much has to be done to further investigate and understand these effects," they wrote.

Professor Patrick Haggard of University College London said the results were interesting since the study suggests a direct effect of cellphone signals on brain function.

But he said much larger fluctuations in brain metabolic rate can occur naturally, such as when a person is thinking.

"If further studies confirm that mobile phone signals do have direct effects on brain metabolism, then it will be important to investigate whether such effects have implications for health," he said.

John Walls, a spokesman for CTIA-The Wireless Association, an industry group, said the scientific evidence so far "has overwhelmingly indicated that wireless devices, within the limits established by the FCC (Federal Communications Commission), do not pose a public health risk or cause any adverse health effects."
(Editing by Philip Barbara)

Source: REUTERS

Japan priest fights invisible demon: radiation

(Preotii japonezi se lupta cu un inamic diabolic dar nevazut: radiatia nucleara.)

By Ruairidh Villar and Yuriko Nakao

FUKUSHIMA, Feb 10 (Reuters) - On the snowy fringes of Japan's Fukushima city, now notorious as a byword for nuclear crisis, Zen monk Koyu Abe offers prayers for the souls of thousands left dead or missing after the earthquake and tsunami nearly one year ago.

But away from the ceremonial drums and the incense swirling around the Joenji temple altar, Abe has undertaken another task, no less harrowing -- to search out radioactive "hot spots" and clean them up, storing irradiated earth on temple grounds.
The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, some 50 km (31 miles) away, suffered a series of explosions and meltdowns after the massive earthquake and tsunami last March 11, setting off the world's worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl in 1986 and forcing 80,000 people from their homes.

Radiation, carried on winds and by snow, spread far beyond the 20 km (12 miles) evacuation zone around the plant, nestling in hot spots across the region and contaminating the ground in what remains a largely agricultural region.

Many of those who fled have no idea when, if ever, they can return to land held by their families for generations.

"The damage here in Fukushima is different from the destruction caused by the tsunami," Abe said.

Source: reuters // Reuters

(Informații publicate de WikiLeaks și preluate de „The Guardian” confirmă o supoziție a BLOGpeBLOC (vezi articolul „Filmul care a ucis-o pe Politkovskaia” din 27 aprilie 2010): moartea jurnalistei ruse a avut substrat politic.)

" A further instalment of user-suggested research among the leaked US embassy cables – including the Pirate party, the 2001 Genoa G8 summit, the murdered Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya and Lembit Opik. Murdered Russian investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya had claimed that she had become accustomed to receiving death threats and "she had accepted the possibility that she could be killed at any time, and talked about it very little", a source revealed to the US ambassador to Moscow in 2006. The rather chilling insight into Politkovskaya state of mind before her murder in 2006 appears in a confidential cable dated 9 October 2006. The source is said to have claimed that Politkovskaya "constantly" received threats – "by telephone, letter, by e-mail, by SMS". The most frequent threats, the source said, had come from the Chechen prime minister "Kadyrov's people" (not necessarily with Kadyrov's knowledge) and the Russian special forces, whose brutalities in Chechnya had been exposed by Politkovskaya. The killing of Politkovskaya brought world attention to the plight of Russian journalists trying to expose what they believe to be widespread corruption in Russia. The 48-year-old was found shot dead in a lift at her apartment block in the capital. Two Chechen brothers and a former policemen charged with directly aiding her murderer were acquitted last year. Politkovskaya's killer remains at large."

(Jason Rodrigues) Source: The Guardian

(Ziariştii de la o publicaţie electronică din Rusia au evaluat numărul de victime ale sângerosului conflict civil din Caucaz, pe anul 2011.)

During 11 months of 2011, that is, from January 1 to November 30, at least 1205 persons fell victim of the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus, including 683 casualties and 522 injured persons. These are the results of calculations made by the “Caucasian Knot” based on the data from its own correspondents and information from open sources.

The absolute leadership among the regions of Northern Caucasus by the number of victims – 685 persons – belongs to Dagestan, which was also ahead of all by the total number of conflict victims in the first half of 2011. From the start of the year, this republic saw 372 casualties and 313 injured persons.

The runner-up is Chechnya, which had – as of November 30 – 202 victims of the armed conflict of law enforcers and members of the underground, including 92 casualties and 110 injured persons. The third place is occupied by Kabardino-Balkaria: 158 victims, among which 116 casualties and 42 injured persons.

Then, in descending order we have: Ingushetia (103 victims: 69 casualties and 34 injured persons); North Ossetia (25 victims: 16 casualties and 9 injured persons), Karachay-Cherkessia (24 victims: 15 casualties and 9 injured persons) and the Stavropol Territory (8 victims: 3 casualties and 5 injured persons).

(Source: justicefornorthcaucasus.info)

FEBRUARY

Feb 11

CAIRO - Arab foreign ministers meet to discuss Syria

- First Anniversary of resignation of Hosni Mubarak as Egyptian President after 30 years in power

Feb 12

TURKMENISTAN - Presidential election

Feb 13

UNITED NATIONS - Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) 4th Preparatory Committee meeting (to Feb. 17)

CHIANG MAI, Thailand - Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Thailand Conference on Strengthening Security through Regional Co-operation (to Feb. 14)

Feb 14

EGYPT - Election for the Upper house of parliament (final stage) (to Feb. 15)

Feb 15

EGYPT - Election for the Upper house of parliament (final stage) (Final Day)

BENGHAZI, Libya - Trial of 41 Libyans accused of helping Muammar Gaddafi crush the popular revolt that ended in his death last year

Feb 20

NAIROBI - 12th Special Session of the U.N. Environment Programme (UNEP) Governing Council/Global Ministerial Environment Forum (to Feb. 22)

Feb 21

YEMEN - Presidential election

EGYPT - Run-off vote will be held if no candidate wins a clear majority in the upper house of parliament election (final stage) on Feb. 14 (to Feb. 22)

TEHRAN - U.N. nuclear agency and Iran to meet for second round of talks (to Feb. 22)

Feb 22

EGYPT - Run-off vote will be held if no candidate wins a clear majority in the upper house of parliament election (final stage) on Feb. 14 (Final Day)
Source: Reuters

FEBRUARY

No deadline: Free climate change adaptation workshops for journalists in Africa. Contact Michelle Betz at the International Center for Journalists

No deadline: Journalists from Afghanistan, Colombia, Iran, Iraq, Nigeria, Pakistan, and Sudan interested in pursuing a peacebuilding project can apply for a United States Institute of Peace (USIP) grant. Applications accepted on a rolling basis

No deadline: The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting funds international travel costs for reporting projects on topics of global importance, especially stories under-reported in mainstream U.S. media. Contact the Pulitzer Center

No deadline: Journalists can enrol for career-building online classes and seminars offered by Mediabistro.com website for media professionals

** Arthur F. Burns Fellowship: Each year 20 outstanding media professionals from the United States and Germany are awarded an opportunity to report from and travel in each other's countries as part of The Arthur F. Burns Fellowship Program. Deadline: March 1

** Scripps Howard Semester in Washington Internship Program: The Scripps Howard ** Foundation Semester in Washington internship program brings two international students per year to Washington, D.C., to work at the Scripps Howard News Service for a semester. Deadline: May 14

** Journalism fellowships: ICFJ is seeking applicants for its Knight Journalism Fellowships in Argentina, Brazil, India and Pakistan. Applicants should be senior journalists fluent in local languages.

** Investigative journalists in any country can apply for a reporting grant, sponsored by the Fund for Investigative Journalism. Deadline: Feb 15. Click for more info

** Online training: The International Journalists' Network (IJNET) has a YouTube page allowing journalists across the world to access journalism training videos. The network also lists journalism courses here

** Mid-career journalists covering science, technology, the environment or medicine can apply for a nine-month fellowship at Massachussets Institute of Technology (MIT). Deadline: March 1. Click here for more info

** The Photocrati Fund is offering a grant available to professional and emerging journalists worldwide.
Source REUTERS

Rețeaua de jurnaliști a lui Sorin Ovidiu Vântu

(BLOGpeBLOC vă recomandă să lecturați ȋn tihnă articolul „Vântu și cei 40 de favoriți” (sursa: Curentul, 2 avg. 2010). Lectura va ajuta consumatorul de presă să vadă că, dincolo de ce tot explică hanaliștii de la televizor, „jurnalismul de rang ȋnalt” de pe mocirloasa Dâmboviță este doar un biet bluf. Articolul transmite ceea ce mulți cititori de ziar o simt fără să le-o spună cineva- faptul că ȋn România, de 10-15 ani, banul și interesele au făcut din dulăul de pază al democrației (presa) un biet cățel care dă din coadă când amușinează un ciolan. Au crezut la Revoluție că libertatea presei e un câștig, dar s-au gândit doar la câștigul lor propriu.)

"Din studiul documentelor aflate în posesia ziarului „Curentul“ rezultă că în Realitatea Media a existat un grup al angajaţilor şi colaboratorilor favorizaţi spre care s-a scurs aproape jumătate din bugetul drepturilor de autor. Astfel, în timp ce grosul angajaţilor, sutele de reporteri care aleargă zilnic după subiecte, editorii, producătorii, primesc circa jumătate din acest buget, cei 40 de privilegiaţi ai lui Vântu au beneficiat din plin de generozitatea acestuia deloc dezinteresată, dacă ne gândim că pe această listă se află politicieni, ziarişti din alte trusturi de presă şi chiar personaje din show-business-ul românesc. (...)"

Vezi: http://www.curentul.ro/2010/index.php/2010072646598/Actualitate/Vantu-si-cei-40-de-favoriti.html

Reporter ZIUA, premiat pentru un articol despre "afaceri cu mediul"

Juriul concursului organizat de ONG-ul de mediu Mare Nostrum si-a desemnat castigatorii: la categoria Anchete de Mediu, premiile au fost decernate ziaristilor Mariana Iancu ("Adevarul"), Razvan Rotaru (revista electronica de investigatii http://www.dezvaluiri.ro/) si Traian George Horia ("ZIUA"). Reporterul ZIUA a participat la concursul Mare Nostrum cu articolul "Fosfo-afacerea secolului" (10 ianuarie 2009) care a revelat un neverosimil subiect: deseurile de reactie toxice de la fostele Combinate de ingrasaminte chimice ale lui Ceausescu vor fi vandute (cu aprobare de la Ministerul Sanatatii) pentru... consumul civil, iar terenurile vor fi folosite in proiecte imobiliare-mamut, de proprietari. Mare Nostrum este una dintre cele mai importante organizatii de mediu din Romania, cu parteneri precum Comisia Europeana, AidROM, Agentia de Monitorizare a Presei etc.

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