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четверг, 13 апреля 2017 г.

Getting Started with Measuring Brand Awareness

Few people dispute that brand awareness is an important consideration for companies of all sizes - there’s a half-trillion dollar global advertising industry built largely on that premise, after all.

Friday Reading S06E08

Friday Reading is a weekly series of recommended reads from the Guardian’s Social and New Formats Editor Martin Belam, covering journalism, media and technology. It sometimes comes out on Thursday. And sometimes not at all. It is also available as...

“Graphic content, graphic novels” – Marc Ellison discusses his work at #ijf17

I’ve been at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia, and one of the highlights for me was a session called “Graphic content. Graphic novels“, where journalist Marc Ellison talked through the projects where he has rendered stories in the form...

среда, 12 апреля 2017 г.

An alternative beauty in parenthood

Vela has an amazing essay by a mother of a child with a rare chromosomal deletion. Put aside all your expectations about what this article will be like: it is about the hopes and reality of having a child, but it’s also about so much more.

It’s an insightful commentary on the social expectations foisted upon pregnant women.

It’s about the clash of folk understanding of wellness and the reality of genetic disorders.

It’s about being with your child as they develop in ways that are surprising and sometimes troubling and finding an alternative beauty in parenthood.

Link to Vela article SuperBabies Don’t Cry.

вторник, 11 апреля 2017 г.

Second Judge Rules Texas Voter ID Law Discriminatory (Audio)

(Bloomberg) -- Josh Douglas, a professor at the University of Kentucky School of Law, discusses a decision by a federal judge in Texas, who ruled that the state's voter identification laws were intentionally discriminatory towards black and Hispanic voters. He speaks with June Grasso and Greg Stohr on Bloomberg Radio's "Bloomberg Law."

Bloomberg Law Brief: Walters Convicted Guilty (Audio)

Peter Henning, a professor at Wayne State University Law School, and Robert Hockett, a professor at Cornell University Law School, discuss the conviction of Las Vegas gambler Billy Walters for insider trading. They speak with June Grasso and Michael Best on Bloomberg Radio's "Bloomberg Law."