For Freelancers Alone in Danger Zones, A Communications Plan is Crucial
Any journalist working on assignment should put in place a solid communications plan. But for freelancers “going it alone,” it’s…
DBW E-book Bestsellers: Big-Name Authors Storm the Best-Seller List
This week sees a number of changes on the e-book best-seller list, beginning right at the very top. Stephen King’s new…
Futures Lab update #84: Engagement Using Text Messages, and Corrections via Social Media
This week we learn about a platform for engaging with audiences via text messages, and we explore how to handle…
Remix: Creating a Twitter Town Hall for a Real Political Debate
As part of the work we are doing with the New Mexico News Port project at the University of New…
Daily Must Reads, November 19, 2014
1. Whose privacy will Uber violate next? Why its latest bad behavior matters (Alexander B. Howard / Wired) 2. ONA…
Reimagining Journalism School as a ‘Gateway Degree’ to Anything
J-Lab director Jan Schaffer is wrapping up 20 years of raising money to give it away to fund news startups,…
5 Ways to Build Listening for Newsrooms and Communities
In 2002 NPR’s vice president for diversity, then a faculty member at the Poynter Institute, described an idea he called…
Toward a 21st Century Procurement Policy
This guest post from Code For America's Lane Becker also appeared on The Hill. Read more about MediaShift guest posts…
E-Books & Self-Publishing Roundup, November 18, 2014
1. In Europe, slower growth for e-books (Stephen Heyman / New York Times) 2. Amazon and Hachette: Bad for everyone…
Daily Must Reads, November 18, 2014
1. Why Bill Keller left the New York Times to put a spotlight on criminal justice (Dara Lind / Vox)…