Volonteurope, which promotes voluntary action throughout the EU as a mechanism for Active European Citizenship, has announced that nominations are open for its 2011 Active Citizens of Europe award. Of course this has extra resonance in this, the European Year of Volunteering. They say: We are looking for nominations from across Europe for individual volunteers,Continue reading “Do you know an active citizen?”
Monthly Archives: June 2011
#Polis11
I went to a really interesting conference on Friday, organised by the POLIS research centre at the London School of Economics and entitled “The POLIS Journalism Conference 2011: Media and Power “. It started with a keynote by Helen Boaden, head of news at the BBC, in which she talked a lot about impartiality, and theContinue reading “#Polis11”
I do love a good google Map…
…and this is definitely a good google Map. A map of the world’s newspapers, with filters by language and a search facility. Not only very cool for those of us that love infographics (I plead guilty to that) but also immensely useful to those of us working with newspapers. Apparently there’s an app as well.