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Daily Must Reads, Feb. 12, 2016

Must Reads is MediaShift's daily curation of the big stories about media and technology from across the web. Sign up…

Courtney Lowery Cowgill

MediaShift Podcast #185: Twitter Rewires Feed; Ad Blockers Are Good; Monica Guzman on True Engagement

This week on the MediaShift podcast, Mark speaks with Monica Guzman, Nieman Fellow and media columnist, about what engagement should…

Jefferson Yen

Facebook Referral Traffic is Not All It’s Cracked Up To Be

This post was originally published on the Parse.ly blog. It is republished here with permission. A couple of years ago,…

Allie VanNest

#EdShift Chat: Finding New Revenue Streams for Student Media

The challenges in the shifting funding model for journalism — away from print and toward digital platforms — may be…

Stacy Forster

Futures Lab Video #139: Theme Weeks and Mobile Revenue Streams

This story first appeared on RJI’s Futures Lab. Reporting by Katy Mersmann and Berkeley Lovelace. This week we find out how two…

Reuben Stern

Journalism and Digital Education Roundup, Feb. 11, 2016

Each Thursday, we round up the top stories of the week in journalism education and digital learning. Sign up here…

Courtney Lowery Cowgill

Daily Must Reads, Feb. 11, 2016

Must Reads is MediaShift's daily curation of the big stories about media and technology from across the web. Sign up…

Courtney Lowery Cowgill

How Freelancers Can Create Their Own ‘Snow Fall’ For Free

This article first appeared on Contently's The Freelancer. When the New York Times launched “Snow Fall,” a longform exploration of an avalanche complete…

Aja Frost

How Student Research Can Help Us Understand Culture to Improve News

Last semester, I wrote about the possibility of incorporating scholarly research related to cultural meanings of news into skills-based journalism classes. The initial…

Robert Gutsche

Media and Journalism Awards: Feb. 11 Edition

Here’s a list of current media and journalism awards, including deadlines for applying. If we’re missing any major awards, please…

Ben DeJarnette