Upcoming Trainings and Courses: May 24 Edition
Each week, MediaShift will list upcoming online trainings and courses for journalists and media people — with a focus on…
Daily Must Reads in Media & Technology, May 24, 2016
Must Reads is MediaShift's daily curation of the big stories about media and technology from across the web. Sign up…
E-Books & Self-Publishing Roundup, May 24, 2016
Each Tuesday, we curate the top stories of the week in e-books and self-publishing. Sign up here to get these…
Ripple Takes on Hyper-Local News, But Compensation Issues Remain
From LocalLabs to GoLocal24 to Everyblock, hyper-local news startups have consistently collided with foreboding economics: Narrow audiences tend to be small audiences,…
Upcoming Events in Digital Media: May 23 Edition
Each week, MediaShift posts an ongoing list of upcoming events in the digital media and journalism world. These will be…
MediaShift Podcast #198: Snapchat Algorithm for Content?; The Guardian Loses Its Way; Designer & VC John Zeratsky
In this week's news, Snapchat considers adding an algorithm to its feed; Twitter might expand its character limit -- in…
Audience Currencies in the Age of Big Data
This post is an adaptation of a longer research paper by Jacob L. Nelson and James G. Webster. Audience ratings data…
Netizen Report: Two of Egypt’s Leading Human Rights Defenders Face Legal Challenge
Global Voices Advocacy's Netizen Report offers an international snapshot of challenges, victories, and emerging trends in Internet rights around the…
#EdShift Chat: Trends in Mobile News Consumption
More people than ever before are getting their news through a mobile device — nearly nine out of 10 mobile phone…
#MetricShift Chat: Measuring Email Newsletters
"Newsletters are, improbably, in vogue," writes Clive Thompson in a new WIRED article. Thompson cites as examples the growing 2,000…