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This Thursday
We’ve been all invited to attend the Journalism Prize Award ceremony at the European parliament. Lady, Lelde and Indre will report on this blog the panel discussion on “The role of new media: an opportunity for democratic participation?” You can read it all here and you can even watch the whole event here from 9h00 on [...]
Micro-blog, they say.
Lately, we brushed up a bit our blog: more pictures, a Facebook live widget and the decision to use more the “Asides” area – exactly what you’re reading now. Click on the # sign at the end and you can comment (not that there is a lot to comment on this “Aside’s” post anyway).
Greetings
Greetings There is a new gizmo in Strasbourg’s building: sterilization foam dispensers that allow everyone to quickly clean their hands. I suspect this new feature comes from the French strategic plan to eradicate all risk of a (H1N1) A flux virus in our premises. I became a big fan of those little dispensers. The Hamlet’s [...]
Where are the shamans?
Summertime allows relax chats in the corridors. The mind wanders around while colleagues get sun burns on all possible European coasts. Even Brussels looks like a friendly city, half emptied by its inhabitants and now occupied by cohort of tourists. Our team is relaxing, taking languages courses and preparing September. And me? I am sharing with you a story full of curse, volcano and Hawaiian god.
May and June most read stories.
Our (recently established) monthly edition of sharing with your our monthly most read stories has suffered from too much work (between May and the Election) but also from too much rest (as I flew away as soon as the last ballot was counted). In order not to let the late posts piling up on my [...]
Back behind the wheel for a week
It’s not everyday that one can be in someone’s else skin. Well, it happens to me whenever the French editor is on leave: I am his back-up and I write stories and articles until he comes back. It’s not fully Being John Malkovitch but still, I enjoy it.
What I really wanted to say.
What can’t be said in a meeting can be posted on a blog. That’s what blogging is all about, right? So, here comes what I couldn’t say in one of our big meeting.
The Box, the Garden and the Waffle
The hectic travel of one Choice box as well as an explanation of what exactly a Choice Box is. This post contains waffles.
Ten most wanted stories of March
Hand-crafted as always, surprising as ever, interesting for everyone and coming straight from Alpha Centauri’s closest neighborhood, please meet our monthly editorial top 10.
10 most read Stories in February
Most of websites do that automatically. We belong more to the handcraft school: we polish things manually, we shape them, we give them little names, we’re reluctant to give them away because we’re never sure they are quite finished. But for you, dear readers, here is our monthly top 10. 100% handmade.
Living in a world of meetings
Meetings are not only a practicable alternative to work, as the famous Internet meme claims. They belong to the standard kit of tools you need or are forced to use the moment you enter an organisation composed of more than three people. In the case of the European parliament, we’ve reached the stage of a meetings factory. Our institution excels at creating, organising, and concocting meetings. In the spirit of sharing with you, dear readers, a glance at our backstage life, please enter for a minute or two my world of meetings.
Another day at the office… with Hillary Clinton
Friday 6 March, Hillary R. Clinton, Secretary of State of Obama’s administration was at the European parliament for a discussion with young Europeans. Funny how Ms Clinton’s visit provocates a sense of excitement in our team.
OMG, They’re blogging this!
What happens when you gather 80 bloggers in a meeting room of the European Parliament in front of the Boss-of-the-Pop (aka Steve on this blog) and an editorial coordinator? Well, let’s figure out.
The day we invented the synopsis
Here is a simple question that tormented us for quite a long time when we were just drafting the organisation, the process and the methods that we now use daily. Those were the days when we were about to start to write and publish on the Headlines and when we were slowly gathering the small team that became our Team – and our Unit.
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