E-Books & Self-Publishing Roundup, October 6, 2015
1. Google must expose e-book Pirate, court rules (via TorrentFreak) 2. Before you launch your author website: How to avoid…
How to Do Data Journalism on the Cheap
Uncovering instances of fraud in the Medicare system doesn’t come cheap. Investigative journalists at the Center for Public Integrity (CPI)…
Upcoming Trainings and Courses: Oct. 6 Edition
Each week, MediaShift will list upcoming online trainings and courses for journalists and media people — with a focus on…
Daily Must Reads, October 5, 2015
1. Jack Dorsey named CEO of Twitter (Erin Griffith / Fortune) 2. What Digicel's next-level ad-blocking means for adland (Tim…
Inside the New York Times’ Innovative Coverage of Europe’s Refugee Crisis
This piece was initially published on Storybench, a cookbook for digital storytelling. Storybench is a collaboration between Northeastern University’s Media…
Innovator Rafat Ali on Connecting the Unseen Dots in the Travel Business
If there’s one thing Rafat Ali has learned how to do well, it’s to build something out of nothing. He…
Upcoming Events in Digital Media: Oct. 5 Edition
Each week, MediaShift posts an ongoing list of upcoming events in the digital media and journalism world. These will be…
Daily Must Reads, October 2, 2015
1. The Chicago Podcast Cooperative wants to let independent audio thrive in the Windy City (Justin Ellis / Nieman Lab)…
Mediatwits #173: Fake Traffic, Bots Hit Online Advertising
Like it or not advertising pays for content. We all know how it should work: publishers produce content that consumers…
Live-Stream: Geneva Overholser on ‘Leading from the Outside’ at FIU
The following post is sponsored content on MediaShift from Florida International University's School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Details The…