Journalism & Digital Education Roundup, April 9, 2015
1. Top journalism students to lead in-depth marijuana report at ASU (via ASU News) 2. Three ways to improve technology-assisted…
Daily Must Reads, April 9, 2015
1. Mobile access shifts social media use and other online activities (Amanda Lenhart / Pew Research) 2. Knight Foundation: Nonprofit…
Yahoo’s End-to-End Email Promises Greater Protection for Journalists
Good news for journalists wanting added protection from surveillance. Yahoo has announced a technical preview of its email security tool…
5 Tricks for Getting the Best Possible Reception with Your Indoor Antenna
For cord cutters, everything old is new again -- at least when it comes to using an antenna to pick…
#EdShift Chat: The Rise of Live-Streaming Video Apps
On Tuesday, April 14, our #EdShift chat will cover the rise of live-streaming video apps. Applications like Meerkat, Periscope and…
Daily Must Reads, April 8, 2015
1. Mute button (George Packer / The New Yorker) 2. Different paths to sustainability for local and state nonprofit news…
Your Guide to Low-Cost Streaming TV Sticks: Amazon Beats Google, Roku
Media distribution evolves. Today only about half of us watch traditional ("linear") TV. Tech giants Amazon and Google are both purveyors of scaled-down devices that…
3 Questions That Should Haunt Every Startup
Scalability. If you’re an entrepreneur, you’ve heard all about scalability. But there’s how you think about scalability before you meet…
Could the U.K.’s Copyright Hub Provide a Template for Simple Rights Use?
One of the greatest tools created by the age of the Internet is the image search. Whenever you want to…
Daily Must Reads, April 7, 2015
1. New report: Local newspapers have done a terrible job building local digital audiences (Joseph Lichtenstein / Nieman Lab) 2.…