Here’s the latest 4MR audio report from MediaShift. In this week’s edition, I look at the new Bay Area News Project, a non-profit startup with $5 million in funding from financier Warren Hellman, in association with KQED and UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism. Plus, the FCC’s new chairman Julius Genachowski makes waves by supporting new rules for Net neutrality, and I ask Just One Question to Daylife CEO Upendra Shardanand.
Check it out:
Background music is “What the World Needs” by the The Ukelele Hipster Kings via PodSafe Music Network.
Here are some links to related sites and stories mentioned in the podcast:
Hellman nonprofit to boost local news coverage at SF Chronicle
Hellman and partners to launch Bay Area newsroom at SF Bay Guardian
Dear Warren at Digidave.org
UC Berkeley Threatens Bay Area Journalism at East Bay Express
Hellman news play — KQED, UC — and NY Times? at SF Business Times
With $5 Million Grant in Hand, Bay Area Non-Profit News Site Takes Shape at PaidContent
FCC Embraces Net Neutrality, Enforces It On ISPs at Fast Company
Net neutrality victory for consumers at San Jose Mercury News
Senate Republicans Scrap Anti-Net Neutrality Push at Washington Post
FCC Takes Sides in Net-Neutrality Debate at Washington Post
Daylife, Getty Give Aggregation Tools to Publishers at MediaShift
Here’s a graphical view of last week’s MediaShift survey results. The question was: “What’s the future of business magazines like Fortune and BusinessWeek?”
Also, be sure to vote in our poll about what you think about how you deal with technology overload.
Mark Glaser is executive editor of MediaShift and Idea Lab. He also writes the bi-weekly OPA Intelligence Report email newsletter for the Online Publishers Association. He lives in San Francisco with his son Julian. You can follow him on Twitter @mediatwit.
Hi Mark,
Net Neutrality is so important. If legal traffic is discriminated against it will limit freedom of expressionism, that is what makes the American internet so great.
Sure, illegal traffic such as spam and malicious websites should be filtered, but sites like mine which offers unique nature photo content could be discriminated against, and thus many may never find my work.
That is just one example and I am sure there are thousands that this would impact and thus curb expressive freedom.
This would be very sad because the web is what has driven my passion for taking pictures for several years now. Without a way to compete with large commercial giants I may as well not even post any more pictures.
Thanks,
ForestWander
Can you give us a link for the poll on how you deal with technology overload?
Dorian,
The poll should be on every page of the MediaShift site, including on the home page.
You say Robert Gammon calls the Bay Area News Project a “slave labor” operation because it plans to make use of unpaid interns from UC Berkeley. Did Mr. Gammon ever study journalism at a college or university? If so, he must surely recall that all journalism degree programs require internships – and that most are unpaid. Why not give the UC students a chance put in the required time with a healthy non-profit rather than a moribund “news” paper offering AP leftovers, crime story tidbits and entertainment candy?