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Is CAKRAM having a tough start in 2008?
We have just heard the news that CAKRAM magazine has just laid-off five of its employees last Friday (01/25), including two of its editors.
Surprisingly, the management did not inform these employees about the layoff beforehand—and only told them about the decision on Friday without prior notice.
Lativi’s New Name
Some of you might have heard the rumors that Lativi will soon change its name into TVOne. Talks on the issue have already started in a number of mailing lists and community blogs even as news about TVOne looking for presenters is circulating.
“It’s true,” said Karni Ilyas, former News, Sport, and Corporate Communications director of ANTV, last Friday. When we met over dinner at a Chinese restaurant at the JW Marriott Hotel, Pak Karni handed us his new business card, which read “TVOne News & Sport Director. “Lativi has even started to air more sport programs prior to the launching.”
Another Blog-celebrity?
Rangga Wardhana, a blogger from Purwokerto, has become a perfect example on how the blogosphere can turn you into a celebrity, in a positive or negative way, in a split second.
Rangga has published ‘stolen’ active credit card records he hacked, and posted the information in his blog—making the data available for everyone and making him the new celebrity in the blogosphere.
Click of The Week #31: Kelik M. Nugroho
Lately I’ve realized that I cherish personal blogs.
Personal blogs tell stories about you, not as a professional, a journalist, an expert or an artist, but of yourself as an individual. An individual human being with hobbies, interests, sadness and anxieties of your own.
To me, personal blogs are far more fascinating than professional ones, because personal blogs enable you to see a person from a different perspective. And it also acts as a reminder that no matter what we do for a living, deep inside we’re all just ordinary people, trying to get by.
Click of The Week #30: Jarar Siahaan
“My conscience kept breaking out when I wrote for the Paper. Too much lies and interests,” Jarar Siahaan said as he explained why he finally poured his thoughts in this blog instead.
He added that being a regular journalist should mean possessing an independent soul, not only from state pressure, but more importantly freedom from the interests that control the media, including businesses and politicians, whom for him do more harm and bury the truth.
AAS 2007: The After Party
A pleasant surprise was thrown at all finalists of Anugerah Adiwarta Sampoerna 2007 at the end of the awarding night (Dec 7, 2007).
The previous media advisory released has stated that only the winners of AAS 2007 will receive 18-mio cash prize; while the rest of the finalists will only receive a certificate. However, before the awarding night is over, Sarah Sechan and Charles Bonar Sirait as the MC announced such a great news for all finalists.
AAS 2007: The Winners
Finally, the winners of Anugerah Adiwarta Sampoerna 2007 has been announced during the awarding night in Hotel Sultan, Jakarta, last night.
For a quick recap, here’s the list of all winners:
ART & CULTURE
- Hardnews: Bambang Sulistyo, Gatra
- Feature: Soleh Solihun, Playboy
- Photo: Arie Basuki, Tempo
Click of The Week #29: Marwan Azis
When we read a newspaper, we are bombarded with news on politics, economy, business, crimes and sports. We don’t find articles on environment too often, unless the issue is really high profile and involving big names.
That’s why I’m going to give a nod to Marwan Azis, a self-proclaimed freelance environment journalist, by choosing his blogs as Click of the Week. Perhaps I should say Clicks of the Week since he is taking care of three blogs: petualanganku.multiply.com; etalasehijau.blogspot.com and greenpressnetwork.blogspot.com.
The first two blogs are his personal blogs where he posted his work on various environmental issues. While the third one is the official blog for an organization for environment journalists, the Green Press Network, where Marwan acts as the editor. Green Press Network adopts citizen journalism principle where Marwan invites everyone who read his blog to submit environmental-related articles to be posted in his blog.
Obviously, Marwan is passionate about delivering news on the environment and we should salute him for doing it. Indonesia is such a vast country with great natural treasure and thanks to journalists likeMarwan, we can stay updated in any environmental issues that are happening all over the archipelago.
We need more people to care about the environment in this country. Perhaps by reading Marwan’s blogs, some people will think twice about throwing garbage out of their speeding cars.
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*Note: Our 29th Click of The Week is nominated by Crivenica Alam (Riri)–Head of our media tracking division who loves baking environmental-friendly cookies 
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