Daily Must Reads, March 30, 2015
1. Lauren Laverne launches online platform aimed at women (Jasper Jackson / Guardian) 2. Facebook hosting doesn't change things, the…
Pew Survey: Snowden Leaks Are Affecting the Way Americans View Privacy
It's been nearly two years since former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden first leaked to the Guardian that the NSA…
Remix: How Our Data Students Succeeded with More Structure and Freedom
Teaching Gen Y'ers is a challenge. First, you have to capture their attention when students can access myriad interesting conversations…
Daily Must Reads, March 27, 2015
1. Periscope and live video are changing the Internet forever (Owen Williams / The Next Web) 2. Lawyers reading mean…
Mediatwits #153: The Case for (And Against) VC Funding for Digital News
What do BuzzFeed, Upworthy and Refinery29 have in common? Well, for one, they’ve raised millions in venture capital money, and…
Russia Insider’s Plan to Target American Mainstream Media
Russia Insider has a crying Statue of Liberty on its home page. She’s weeping into her palms as black clouds…
Pro Partnerships and Data Courses at WVU
When I moved to Morgantown almost three years ago to teach journalism at West Virginia University, the sketchiness of the…
Facebook Serving News Stories: Consider the Load Time
The following piece is a guest post. Read more about MediaShift guest posts here. News spread this week that Facebook…
DBW E-Book Bestsellers: Prices Swoon as New and Familiar Players Mingle
It’s not always easy to tell what makes an e-book successful. Film adaptations certainly help, as does the name-recognition of…
Futures Lab Update #99: SXSW Interactive; Renting Tech; an App For Democracy
This week we offer a quick recap from the 2015 South by Southwest Interactive conference in Austin, Texas. We also…