Virtual newsrooms have enormous potential: enabling journalists around the world to pool their knowledge, skills and perspectives within joint projects, such as the Panama Papers. These virtual newsrooms are supported by Online Collaborative Software (OCS), the most popular of which is Slack. But although many of the world's top news organisations now use Slack, there is no empirical research examining its impact on workplace processes or culture. This article presents the results of a year-long ethnographic study of a global digital news outlet, whose remote journalists collaborate, almost exclusively, via Slack. We found that the platform deepened relationships and enabled new creative practices across geographic regions. However, it also contributed to the erasure of the line between private and professional spheres for workers, and introduced new opportunities for management to shape newsroom culture. We argue that the concept of 'space' as developed by Harvey can helpfully frame the analysis of these new, important digital platforms.
Pseudomonas aeruginosa are noscomially acquired, opportunistic pathogens that pose a major threat to the health of burns patients and the immunocompromised. We sequenced the genomes of P. aeruginosa isolates RNS_PA1, RNS_PA46 and RNS_PAE05, which displayed resistance to almost all frontline antibiotics, including gentamicin, piperacillin, timentin, meropenem, ceftazidime and colistin. We provide evidence that the isolates are representatives of P. aeruginosa sequence type (ST) 235 and carry Tn6162 and Tn6163 in genomic islands 1 (GI1) and 2 (GI2), respectively. GI1 disrupts the endA gene at precisely the same chromosomal location as in P. aeruginosa strain VR-143/97, of unknown ST, creating an identical CA direct repeat. The class 1 integron associated with Tn6163 in GI2 carries a blaGES-5–aacA4–gcuE15–aphA15 cassette array conferring resistance to carbapenems and aminoglycosides. GI2 is flanked by a 12 nt direct repeat motif, abuts a tRNA-gly gene, and encodes proteins with putative roles in integration, conjugative transfer as well as integrative conjugative element-specific proteins. This suggests that GI2 may have evolved from a novel integrative conjugative element. Our data provide further support to the hypothesis that genomic islands play an important role in de novo evolution of multiple antibiotic resistance phenotypes in P. aeruginosa.
This article draws on the results of a large-scale audience study to examine how audiences respond to mediated encounters with distant suffering on UK television. The research involved two phases of focus groups separated by a two-month diary study. Research participants’ mediated experiences of distant suffering were generally characterised by indifference and solitary enjoyment, with respect to distant and dehumanised distant others. However, the results also signal that, in various ways, non-news factual television programming offers spectators a more proximate, active and complex mediated experience of distant suffering than television news.
Despite a general decline in circulation, newspapers are considered by many to have an important role to play in informing and or influencing citizens. Whether newspaper influence is discussed in relation to voting behaviour (Norris, 1999), reinforcing existing political preferences (Newton and Brynin, 2003) or in setting the political agenda, the content of UK newspapers is seen to matter. Why is it then, that the role of newspapers in influencing citizens' perceptions of the wider world has remained so under-researched? The last academic research into general coverage of Africa in the UK press was conducted in 1990 (see Brookes, 1995). This article seeks to fill this research gap and to draw attention to the important but largely unacknowledged role that the UK press plays in informing citizens about Africa.What makes this research gap even more conspicuous is that recent evidence appears to substantiate the crucial role that the press plays in informing citizens about Africa and the developing world in general. In a recent public attitudes survey, Lader (2007: 3) reported that 47 percent of UK citizens use newspapers as a source of information about the lives of poor people in Africa. In their analysis of US media coverage and charitable giving after the 2004 tsunami, Brown and Minty found that 'an additional 700-word story in the New York Times or Wall Street Journal raises donations by 18.2% of the daily average' (2006: 1). Similarly, Olsen et al. (2003) 'find a high correlation between the total number of relevant articles in western newspapers and the total amount of humanitarian assistance allocated to victims of the flooding in Mozambique in 2000 and the cyclone in eastern India in 1999' (cited in Brown and Minty, 2006: 2). The results from Darnton's recent Public Perceptions of Poverty (PPP) study showed that while tabloid readers were
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