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The Fight for Independent Media

The Fight for Independent Media

The story of The Openmedia.bg. How a small group of people is trying to improve the media scene in Bulgaria.

Petya Raykovska

March 21, 2015
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  1. The  fight  for  
    independent  media
    HOW A SMALL GROUP OF PEOPLE IS TRYING TO IMPROVE THE MEDIA SCENE IN BULGARIA

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  3. A different reality

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  4. A different reality

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  6. Bulgaria ranked 106
    last from all european union countries

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  7. the bulgarian media drama

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  8. key protagonist

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  9. The bulgarian media drama
    the media mogul his mother a failed banker the Prime minister

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  10. 45% Government funds
    control of editorial
    policy
    Bank funds media
    journalists ] public
    s
    government!
    political comfort
    pressure
    Q
    bank $
    media monopolies
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  11. shady ownership
    financial dependency
    corporate pressure
    no laws
    no demand
    for quality
    harassment &
    self censorship
    THE (BULGARIAN) MEDIA DRAMA

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  12. people think that’s it

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  14. 100 lines of code

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  15. mass protests in Bulgaria

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  17. a simple chrome extension

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  18. built in less than a day

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  19. had a lot of flaws

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  20. about 50 installs

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  21. they changed their sites!

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  22. we fixed it... of course

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  23. and the next morning...

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  25. a  corporate  hacker  attack

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  26. on  jithube

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  28. the result?
    5000+
    installs
    20+
    volunteers
    3
    new extensions
    p P 8

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  29. what can 100 lines of code change?

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  30. everything

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  31. the  corporate  hackers  of  the  republic

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  32. talk  vs  do

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  36. talk vs do

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  37. Bulgaria lacks media pluralism but has IT talent

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  39. transparency
    support for
    independent
    media
    !
    new media
    reality
    A well informed
    society is key to the
    development of every
    state. Bulgarians
    deserve to know who
    owns and controls the
    public message.
    Ownership needs to
    be more transparent.
    History needs to be
    remembered
    High school media
    education needs to
    happen asap in order to
    change the demand for
    quality content and
    encourage critical
    thinking among yourng
    people. We need to
    help build the next
    generation of
    journalists.
    Financial and moral
    support for media outlets
    that try to stay
    independent and self
    sufficient. Support for
    investigative journalism,
    financial and economic
    topics and reporters
    struggling to do their job
    well
    The goals
    Enable
    critical
    thinking

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  40. bulgaria media
    timeline
    microdonations
    for independent
    media
    !
    new media
    reality
    A well informed
    society is key to the
    development of every
    state. Bulgarians
    deserve to know who
    owns and controls the
    public message.
    Ownership needs to
    be more transparent.
    History needs to be
    remembered
    High school media
    education needs to
    happen asap in order to
    change the demand for
    quality content and
    encourage critical
    thinking among yourng
    people. We need to
    help build the next
    generation of
    journalists.
    Financial and moral
    support for media outlets
    that try to stay
    independent and self
    sufficient. Support for
    investigative journalism,
    financial and economic
    topics and reporters
    struggling to do their job
    well
    The projects
    the high school
    media project

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  41. visibility

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  42. The bulgarian media timeline
    timeline.js wordpress crowdsouce
    + +
    A crowdsourced information platform on everything big that happened in bulgarian
    media since 1898
    https://github.com/openmediabg/timeline

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  43. http://timeline.openmedia.bg

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  44. alternative  funding

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  45. Micro donations for independent media
    OSS platform for voting up quality content where every “vote” is a micro donation to
    the author of the article
    https://github.com/openmediabg/microdonations
    monthly
    donation
    donation
    button
    matching
    donations
    + + reward
    quality
    > reward
    authors
    +

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  46. [
    ]
    %
    $
    s
    Q
    quality content
    financial independence
    quality content gets awarded
    matching donations
    Start!
    Micro donations: Long term goals

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  47. media  education

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  48. The high school media project: the platform
    wordpress
    news/
    magazine
    theme
    custom
    dashboard
    + microcopy
    + buddy
    press
    +
    Educate, Empower, Enable, Prepare, Connect.
    help children learn to question. Help children lear to think.

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  49. The high school media project
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  50. The  fight

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  51. burst the bubble

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  52. we must choose between what is right, and what is easy
    Albus Dumbuldore

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  53. If you have an idea nowadays,
    with FOSS and the internet
    out there, you must never
    walk alone again

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  54. FOSS contributors around the world - We are an army
    Find something you care about.
    Fork a project. Implement your own solution.

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  55. thank  you
    @petyeah openmedia.bg

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