. . .by jason brown, jicc founder. . .Just short of 40 signatures so far on our petition to ask UNESCO to declare world journalism in crisis.Let's aim for 100,000 signatures by 2011.Setting a large target is essential to making an impression on a global scale.And with journalism in crisis now, imagine how bad things will be after another 12 months of cut backs across world news rooms.How many journalists, subs, editors, layout artists, graphic artists, cartoonists, camera people and photographers will lose their jobs over the next 52 weeks?Not to mention advertising agents, printers, collators, delivery people, managers, and sundry other newsroom affiliated jobs, trades and professions?Worst of all, imagine how much worse world governance processes will become with not just quality but quantum loss of journalism output.We've already lost trillions to vastly under-scrutinised and increasingly less free markets. Held hostage by vast institutional investors, some of them...

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. . .Volunteer advocacy efforts are notoriously last minute and this one is no different. News headlines are also notoriously misleading, and this one is no different either.There is 96 hours to go to World Press Freedom Day 2010 - but the JICC petition here asking UNESCO to declare world journalism in crisis is an open event, allowing statistics to be compared month to month. Hopefully, however, not year to year. JICC starts with a simple premise - that journalism cannot logically be exempt from the same economic crisis that has impact on so many other sectors worldwide. Others may suggest journalism has an amazing digital future but JICC calls attention to urgencies about the here and now.. . .

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