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Mediatwits #24: Non-Profit News Sites; iPhone 4S Boom; Android’s Ice Cream Sandwich

The Mediatwits podcast is sponsored by the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, which offers an intensive, cutting edge, three semester Master of Arts in Journalism; a unique one semester Advanced Certificate in Entrepreneurial Journalism; and the CUNY J-Camp series of Continuing Professional Development workshops focused on emerging trends and skill sets in the industry.

Welcome to the 24th episode of “The Mediatwits,” the weekly audio podcast from MediaShift. The co-hosts are MediaShift’s Mark Glaser and entrepreneur Rafat Ali. The hot topic is non-profit news sites and whether they can sustain themselves. A recent study was released from the Knight Foundation about the business health of some of these sites, and noted that they still need to experiment to find the right business model to survive. Special guests Mayur Patel from Knight and consultant Michele McLellan talked about their findings and bright spots at sites such as Texas Tribune and the St. Louis Beacon.

Also up for discussion was the amazing success of the iPhone 4S, with Apple selling 4 million of the phones in the first weekend on sale. With all that success, why did Wall Street knock Apple for last quarter’s earnings miss? Plus, Google strikes back in mobile with “Ice Cream Sandwich,” a new operating system that is sleeker, allows multi-tasking, and works the same on phones as tablets. Bonus futuristic feature: It can use face-recognition to unlock the phone.

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Intro and outro music by 3 Feet Up; mid-podcast music by Autumn Eyes via Mevio’s Music Alley.

Here are some highlighted topics from the show:

Intro

1:10: Gaddafi killed, Hillary Clinton’s reaction

3:20: Kara Swisher hospitalized in Hong Kong

4:00: Rundown of topics for show

Mayur Patel

Knight report on non-profits

5:10: Special guests Mayur Patel and Michele McLellan

7:20: Diversifying revenue streams for non-profits

10:20: McLellan: Texas Tribune had balanced team, including business and tech

13:45: Patel: Investigative News Network trying to help get tax status for sites

15:30: Secret of success for Texas Tribune?

Michele McLellan

16:45: Patel: Not all non-profit sites see advertising as a potential windfall

iPhone 4S selling like hotcakes

18:00: Conundrum of iPhone 4S sales success, poor Apple earnings (according to Wall Street)

20:30: Rafat has Siri-envy with fiancee’s iPhone 4S

23:10: Post-Steve Jobs era yet?

Android’s Ice Cream Sandwich

24:10: Face-recognition can help unlock phone: really necessary?

26:10: Unified OS between phone and tablet

28:30: Mark still having success on Google+

29:10: Rafat tries out new Chime.in social network from Ubermedia

29:50: Next week’s podcast dedicated to all things Amazon

More Reading

Getting Local: How Nonprofit News Ventures Seek Sustainability at Knight Foundation

Why Non-Profit News Sites Need to Act More Like Digital Businesses at MediaShift

New Knight study identifies 3 surprising keys to nonprofit news business success at Poynter

Why Apple sold only 17.1 million iPhones at GigaOm

Apple ‘Disappoints’? Blame Wall Street at WSJ

AT&T celebrates more than 1 million iPhone 4S activations at ZDNet

Ice Cream Sandwich debuted with Samsung Galaxy Nexus at the Washington Post

Android Ice Cream Sandwich: The complete FAQ at ComputerWorld

Ice Cream Sandwich: Say goodbye to bloatware at CNET

Weekly Poll

Don’t forget to vote in our weekly poll, this time about where you stand in the Apple iOS vs. Google Android debate:

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. and Circle him on Google+

The Mediatwits podcast is sponsored by the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, which offers an intensive, cutting edge, three semester Master of Arts in Journalism; a unique one semester Advanced Certificate in Entrepreneurial Journalism; and the CUNY J-Camp series of Continuing Professional Development workshops focused on emerging trends and skill sets in the industry.

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.

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