Thursday, September 30, 2004
Ending poverty is the key to stability says World Bank president
Is there a part of this message that applies to the Mediterranean and its media?
And now, a few words from the urinal
For anyone wondering where the places are that media of the world have either not gone or not taken us, this story will help provide an answer! The piece appears in today's The New York Times. (This is a link to a free registation site for anyone not registered.)
Babelmed
This is a truly impressive project bringing cultures together in the Mediterranean. The Mediterranean Media Center hopes to support efforts to expand this sort of approach to include even more of the wonderful stories and media that come from this region.
Monday, September 27, 2004
Advertising to be adopted in Italy
The story of how an elderly Italian man used the media to find someone to adopt him......
Sunday, September 26, 2004
US direct mail company growing
What are the Mediterranean equivalents of this company? This phenomenon?
Saturday, September 25, 2004
Friday, September 24, 2004
Wall Street Journal and Consumer Reports forge an agreement
Are there any lessons or ideas to be learned from this for the Mediterranean? In other words, are any media in the Mediterranean cooperating in this manner? If so, how are the doing? What's next?
Thursday, September 23, 2004
Wednesday, September 22, 2004
Tuesday, September 21, 2004
Monday, September 20, 2004
New numbers on global internet use
Most, but not all, of the Mediterranean countries are included. Numbers range from 12,000 in Albania to 25 million each in France and Italy. The Mediterranean Media Center hopes to study these statistics more closely to help develop the best possible data on the internet in the region.
Sunday, September 19, 2004
Mediterranean Travel Fair in Cairo
In what ways do the media of the Mediterranean now relate to an event like this?
Global study of e-government released by Brown University
This includes all countries in the Mediterranean. See table A-1 for rankings. The top Mediterranean country is in fifth place, Monaco. In thirteenth place is Italy and France follows in eighteenth place.
Euro-Mediterranean meeting on immigration in Algiers
How good a job are the Mediterranean media doing covering immigration? How good a job are they doing covering this meeting? Here is the website for the event.....
Thursday, September 16, 2004
Wednesday, September 15, 2004
Jordan links eight universities using the internet
What are the implicaitons of this move for the media of the region? For the media of Jordan? How are Mediterranean media companies moving to be a part of the continued growth and evolution of the internet?
Tuesday, September 14, 2004
Sunday, September 12, 2004
Portuguese version of PRAVDA.Ru celebrates second birthday
It would be interesting to map all of the languages of the Mediterranean and the extent to which these languages are used in media in other parts of the world. Language is a fundamental link for people and the "larger" Mediterranean probably includes millions of people linked by their language, through one or more media. Is this something useful that the MMC could address?
Egypt billboard may portend aspirations
How does this compare with what happens in other Mediterranean countries?
Spain's press takes stock of attacks
How can the MMC collect the many points of view reflected in the entire 25 nation Mediterranean region?
Saturday, September 11, 2004
Online books about the Middle East more common than you think
What about the Mediterranean in general? What are the market needs and opportunities?
Friday, September 10, 2004
"Transatlantic Trends"
This report contains much valuable information relating to France, Italy, Portugal, Spain and Turkey in the Mediterranean. What could the MMC do to help the media understand the findings and put them to good use?
Interview on "subscription news" (online) with the new director of the Online News Association
What are the trends in the Mediterranean? Who is charging for online news? Where is it working? Why? Where is not working? Why?
Interview on "subscription news" (online) with the new director of the Online News Association
What are the trends in the Mediterranean? Who is charging for online news? Where is it working? Why? Where is not working? Why?
Reader's Digest forced to change accounting procedures dealing with sweepstake promotions
Contests have been a big part of the Mediterranean media world. What are the accepted accounting procedures in the region, and how are they changing? How do they compare with what the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has required Reader's Digest to do?
France announces plans to promote the French language in the expanded European Union
How is the role of language changing the Mediterranean media landscape? What are the trends? What is the impact of immigration? Of other changing demographics? And of media technology?
More free newspaper editions starting up in France
Is there any other country of the Mediterranean which is witnessing this phenomenon? If not, why not? If so, what are they?
Le Prix Bayeux in France
This is an important prize. The Mediterranean should have prizes as well - for the best work done by the media of the region.
Mediterranean Media Center logo proposed.....
This is a proposed logo for the Mediterranean Media Center. All comments welcome at tmaguire@newspaper.com.
Thursday, September 09, 2004
France Telecom and Canal + extend their DSL television offfering to more of France
Is this happening anywhere else in the Mediterranean?
Investigative journalism seminar in Jordan suppported by foundatoin and British government
How could the Mediterranean Media Center help share what took place at this event - and any followup - with the rest of the Mediterranean?
Newspapers in Switzerland combine advertising operations but remain independent
What opportunities are there to create similar offerings in the Mediterranean?
Monday, September 06, 2004
Saturday, September 04, 2004
Thursday, September 02, 2004
Wednesday, September 01, 2004
Full text of the Hollinger report
This may be of considerable interest to many media people in the Mediterranean.
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