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Opening VJM/Cartoonmovement Exhibition at the LSE
On January 23 '12, an vjmovement/ cartoonmovement exhibition is opened at the London School of Economics. The exhibition is titled Justice and Security: There is More Than One Truth, and features the work of many of our contributors.
caricatura es herramienta contra la corrupción
El presidente de la Asociación Nacional de Periodistas del Perú, Roberto Mejía Alarcón, destacó el valor de la caricatura política como instrumento de crítica mordaz para denunciar los actos de corrupción o negligencia de los políticos de turno. “De esa manera, el mensaje se transmite principalmente por el dibujo, por cuanto el texto casi siempre en las caricaturas políticas es escasa”, dijo Mejía en la inauguración de la Primera Exposición Internacional de Caricaturas “Hay más de una verdad”.
En dan nu het goede nieuws: kwaliteit loont wél!
Vorige week was ik aanwezig bij de uitreiking van de Dick Scherpenzeel Prijs. Rondom die uitreiking was een programma georganiseerd waarin diverse ‘buitenlandjournalistieke’ cases werden gepresenteerd. Ik heb de bijeenkomst ervaren als een warm bad, en ga u uitleggen waarom. Daarvoor moet ik eerst een stap opzij maken, naar de uitgeefcongressen die ik de afgelopen jaren bezocht. Op die congressen lopen doorgaans interessante, leuke en vrij dynamische mensen rond, die het vooral hebben over crossmedia, digitalisering en de business cases. Er wordt veel gespeecht en gedebatteerd en de collectieve zoektocht naar het nieuwe verdienmodel is vrijwel altijd – begrijpelijkerwijs – de dominante invalshoek. Issues als ‘inhoud’ en ‘kwaliteit’ zijn niet leading, maar eerder bouwstenen die, mits ze de business case ten goede komen, in meer of mindere mate kunnen worden toegepast.
"The revolution has changed the conditions for political satire in Egypt"
The Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet published a cartoon that Cartoon Movement Cartoonist Sherif Arafa made during the Egyptian revolution. Revolusjonen har endret forholdene for politisk satire i Egypt Etter flere tiår under et vestlig støttet, autoritært regime, publiseres nå egyptiske karikaturer av den avgåtte president Hosni Mubarak. Norske og vestlig medier har lenge debattert publisering av de danske Muhammed-karikaturene og i hvilken grad europeisk offentlighet er underlagt islamske sensurkrefter. Det har vært langt mindre interesse for hvordan karikaturstriden bidro til å forverre forholdene for karikaturtegnere og andre kritikere av undertrykkende regimer i Midtøsten.
Cartoon Movement debuts Sarah Glidden’s new Mideast work
“I had been really anxious to try actual graphic journalism and turn away from memoir,” Glidden tells Comic Riffs on Tuesday. “Anxious both because it’s what I would really like to focus on in the near future and also because I wasn’t sure if I would be able to pull it off.” Readers can now judge for themselves whether Glidden has pulled it off. Today, the website Cartoon Movement has just debuted Glidden’s work “The Waiting Room,” a 20-page illustrated piece of reportage that examines Iraqi refugees living in Syria.
Must read: Sarah Glidden’s “The Waiting Room” on Cartoon Movement
Cartoonist Sarah Glidden (HOW TO UNDERSTAND ISRAEL IN 60 DAYS OR LESS) recently got back from a second trip to the Middle East, traveling with Common Language Project. While she plans an entire book on the experience, for now she’s done “The Waiting Room” a 21-page comic for Cartoon Movement, Mat Bors’ political comics site, with this episode about Syrian refugees.
Sarah Glidden's 'The Waiting Room' Documents Iraqi Refugees in Syria Read More: http://www.comicsal
Cartoon Movement's Comic by Sarah Glidden is featured on Comics Alliance. Produced in collaboration with the human rights-based journalistic enterprise The Common Language Project, Glidden's The Waiting Room is reminiscent of American Widow, the graphic novel memoir of 9/11 widow Alissa Torres (illustrated by Sungyoon Choi), in that it depicts the very real struggles of ordinary people in need as they run up against a gauntlet of brutal bureaucracies that are devised to help but really do almost anything but...
News Games
The News Games Blogpost on the VJ Movement blog was republished by the European Journalism Centre on their website VJ Movement is always looking for new ways of practicing journalism. We started off with Video Journalism. Then the Cartoonists entered the network. Since then we have also branched into comics and even a hilarious animation.
Future of cartooning - In graphic detail
ONE sign that change is afoot in countries ruled by despots is the appearance of murals and cartoons ridiculing them. Reuters has a slideshow from Libya depicting a range of caricatures of Muammar Qaddafi, with artistic quality that ranges from puerile to professional. Dictators cannot abide parody, as it makes them appear vulnerable. They reserve especial loathing for scrawls, which even illiterate subjects can appreciate. Egyptian parodist Sherif Arafa recently spoke to fellow cartoonist Matt Bors, the comics journalism editor of the Cartoon Movement site, about the prohibition against drawing Hosni Mubarak, and the abuse he and his colleagues experienced before the autocratic ruler was ousted in February.
#Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk – video interviewing
Over on VJ Movement Jennifer Crandall offers journalists working in broadcast six useful tips on interview technique for video, to help make the interview as well composed as the footage and ensure responses from the interviewee are filled with detail and colour.
