Today a live conference will be held online with Journalist Jackie Spinner about her work in Social Media and experience in covering Middle East major events as a Journalist. You can submit your questions through Cover it live and we will make sure to answer them. The conference will start at 15:00 Gmt.

Jackie Spinner is an assistant professor of journalism at Columbia College Chicago. She was a staff writer for The Washington Post for 14 years and covered the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Jackie left the Post in 2009 and founded Angel Says: Read, an international literacy project based in Belize, Central America. In 2010, she returned to Iraq to start the award-winning AUI-S Voice, Iraq’s first independent student newspaper at The American University of Iraq. She was a U.S. Fulbright Scholar in Oman and taught journalism at Sultan Qaboos University in 2010-2011, where she founded Al Mir’ah, the university’s first independent student newspaper. Jackie writes, shoots photos and produces audio slideshows and video for the Web. She has contributed to the Christian Science Monitor, Chicago Tribune, Slate, Glamour, Aswat al-Iraq, American Journalism Review, Defense Quarterly Standard and U.S. Catholic News. She is the author of Tell Them I Didn’t Cry: A young journalist’s story of joy, loss and survival in Iraq (Scribner 2006). Jackie has reported from Iraq, Afghanistan, Jordan, Oman, Ecuador, Hungary, Spain, Morocco, Finland, Iceland and Kuwait. She is a member of the Society of Professional Journalists, Journalism and Women’s Symposium, College Media Advisers and Military Reporters & Editors Association. She is co-director of Conflict Zone, a groundbreaking multimedia exhibit.

Against piracy! Against the digital encroach! Against illiteracy! Against each other! Publishing, that cheeky teaser of mind, body, and soul, enjoys the same level of excitement and drama as other fields, if not more. As with every industry out there, it plays host to a crazy ensemble cast of heroes, villains, threats, challenges, underdogs, and other archetypes. Then conflict happens — or at least publishers come across a conflict that needs addressing. What follows are just some of the few exciting adventures that go down in the publishing world.

By P.John

In the late nineteen seventies efforts to find a solution to Rhodesia’s problems became totally bogged down. Not only had Ian Smith’s white settler regime and its black African opponents failed time and again to agree an agenda for talks. They could not even agree on where to meet. London? No. Geneva? No. Botswana? No. Anywhere you care to name? No. On and on the saga went until an exasperated Salisbury (Harare) resident wrote to his local newspaper to say that if the two sides could not agree to meet anywhere else, they were welcome to use his flat. He was out on Wednesday and would leave the key under the front door mat.

Thousands of Egyptians went back into the street demonstrating against the Army control of the state. About forty Egyptians were killed in the last 48 hours. The Egyptian army resigned and the Army council accepted it.
The Youth Egyptian movements of the 25th of January are calling for a Million protest tomorrow. The disagreement is about a document that includes giving the army most of the authorities after the expected elections in a few months.

Sending cameras around the world to everyone who wants to be part of an international film project to create a film from a lot of people in different places around the world is probably one of the best ideas this year. Project: Filmbox is doing exactly that. Since November students and creative people from all over the world can become part in producing a film that is reflecting a new spirit among young people by sending in their film clips. Everyone feels connected to each other somehow and that international feeling of unity is what the final film of this project is going to be all about.