Archive for July 23rd, 2010
Could camel milk come to Europe?
The United Arab Emirates has been pushing hard for the European Union to accept imports from its camel dairy farms.
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Study: Journalists Starting To Accept The Fact That Their Print Publications Will Eventually Fold
How’s this for optimism?
Half of journalists think the print publications (or TV/radio stations) they work for will eventually fold.
That’s according to a new report by the Oriella PR Network.
The report, Oriella’s Digital Journalism Study 2010, polled more than 770 journalists from Europe, the United States, and Latin America, and came to the conclusion that “journalists are gradually acclimatising to the pressures of juggling the demands of web and print media and, for the first time, view new media as an asset, not a hindrance, to news-gathering and presentation.”
A few more highlights from the poll:
- More than half of the journos polled think online media is far from being a profitable business model.
- 44% of the journalists polled agreed that the number of print media outlets will shrink
dramatically. To put it in perspective, that’s down from 60% in 2009. - 39% of respondents expect a loss of more than 10% in advertising income at their publications this year.
Click through for charts on these statistics and more >>
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See Also:
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MAP OF THE DAY: Government Study Confirms Spread Of Oil Below Gulf Surface
A NOAA study released today confirms previous reports that oil was spreading below the surface. The heavy liquid is not floating up to the surface as one might expect. This 3D map shows detected levels of oil, along with unrelated seepage from the ocean floor.
Although underwater oil plumes could cause lethal oxygen depletion — as Matthew Simmons warns — these levels are NOT severe enough to kill aquatic life:
Dissolved oxygen measurements sometimes show a drop in dissolved oxygen at or below a depth of 1,000 meters, although these drops were not severe enough to indicate impending hypoxic conditions.
More unsettling but not terrible news from the Gulf. Check out the future of American offshore –>
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