Meerkat, Periscope, and the Gamification of Live Streaming
Periscope and Meerkat are barely months old and they have already become the ‘platforms to most likely to replace your…
DigitalEd: How Publishers Can Engage on Social & Drive Revenue
Title: How Publishers Can Engage on Social & Drive Revenue Instructors: Dale Blasingame, Chuck Fishman, Mark Glaser Posting original content…
Pew’s State of the News Media: Mobile, Podcasting Booming
The 2015 Pew State of the News Media report, released on April 29, verifies what many media analysts have been…
Daily Must Reads, May 8, 2015
1. Erin Lee Carr remembers her father, NYT columnist David Carr (via Glamour) 2. Facebook 'filter bubble' study raises more…
How Membership Programs Create Sustainable Newsrooms
I recently wrote a grant proposal for the INNovation Fund at the Institute for Nonprofit News requesting funding for a…
Mediatwits #159: The NewFronts Go Legit, But Will Advertisers Buy In?
The NewFronts are the digital publishing world’s answer to the Upfronts. If you aren’t familiar with the Newfronts, they are…
How to Use the End of the Telethon to Teach Students to Cover Disability Rights
The MDA Telethon announced its end on May 1. The Labor Day event, hosted annually by comedian Jerry Lewis from…
Journalism & Digital Education Roundup, May 7, 2015
1. Why journalism students don’t learn CS (Lindsey Cook / OpenNews Source) 2. Feminists at Mary Washington say they were…
Daily Must Reads, May 7, 2015
1. NSA phone records program illegal, court rules (Dan Roberts & Spencer Ackerman / Guardian) 2. CNN's drone approval could…
Pass the Salt And Your Mind, Please: Lior Zoref on ‘Mindsharing’
Did you hear the one about the guy who trotted a live ox out on stage during his TED talk…