How the Daily Dot Relaunched the Kernel as a Sunday Magazine
The following piece is a guest post. Read more about MediaShift guest posts here. At the beginning of this year,…
How an Idea Becomes a Pitch
The pitch — it is where everything begins and ends. It is where the rubber meets the road. From a…
Daily Must Reads, December 15, 2014
1. #illridewithyou: Hashtag offers solidarity with Sydney's Muslims after cafe siege (via Guardian) 2. FOIA reform dies while the press…
2014: The Year of Personalized Journalism Ethics
2014 brought us the year of My Journalism Ethics. It was the year that "personalizing" journalism ethics went mainstream. Big…
How We Crowdfunded a Special Journalism Workshop
Traditional lectures, seminar discussion groups, flipped classrooms or online courses – those are the four major learning environments our students…
Special Series: 2014 Year in Review
It has been a year filled with more tectonic shifts for the media landscape, from the changing face of media…
Daily Must Reads, December 12, 2014
1. Twitter users love TV so much they’ll pay to watch (Peter Kafka / Re/code) 2. Gawker discusses cost of…
Mediatwits #140: Billionaires Gone Bad: New Republic, First Look Hit Major Bumps
Could billionaires become the grand patrons who save traditional media from self-destruction? That was the thinking when Facebook co-founder Chris…
As Digital Audio Takes Off, How Big Can It Get?
Perhaps it’s not virally inclined, but audio storytelling is crossing over from niche to mainstream. In 2012, 40 percent of…
Advice from Vox’s Melissa Bell: Follow Your Curiosity to Success
The best advice Melissa Bell has for young reporters: Follow your curiosity lines. During the Vox.com co-founder's recent visit to the University…