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4 Minute Roundup: Bay Area News Project; FCC and Net Neutrality

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.

Mark Glaser :Mark Glaser is founder and executive director of MediaShift. He contributes regularly to Digital Content Next’s InContext site and newsletter. Glaser is a longtime freelance journalist whose career includes columns on hip-hop, reviews of videogames, travel stories, and humor columns that poked fun at the titans of technology. From 2001 to 2005, he wrote a weekly column for USC Annenberg School of Communication's Online Journalism Review. Glaser has written essays for Harvard's Nieman Reports and the website for the Yale Center for Globalization. Glaser has written columns on the Internet and technology for the Los Angeles Times, CNET and HotWired, and has written features for the New York Times, Conde Nast Traveler, Entertainment Weekly, the San Jose Mercury News, and many other publications. He was the lead writer for the Industry Standard's award-winning "Media Grok" daily email newsletter during the dot-com heyday, and was named a finalist for a 2004 Online Journalism Award in the Online Commentary category for his OJR column. Glaser won the Innovation Journalism Award in 2010 from the Stanford Center for Innovation and Communication. Glaser received a Bachelor of Journalism and Bachelor of Arts in English at the University of Missouri at Columbia, and currently lives in San Francisco with his wife Renee and his two sons, Julian and Everett. Glaser has been a guest on PBS' "Newshour," NPR's "Talk of the Nation," KALW's "Media Roundtable" and TechTV's "Silicon Spin." He has given keynote speeches at Independent Television Service's (ITVS) Diversity Retreat and the College Media Assocation's national convention. He has been part of the lecture/concert series at Yale Law School and Arkansas State University, and has moderated many industry panels. He spoke in May 2013 to the Maui Business Brainstormers about the "Digital Media Revolution." To inquire about speaking opportunities, please use the site's Contact Form.

View Comments (4)

  • 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

  • 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?

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