RJI Selects 13 Storytellers to Become Reynolds Fellows
RJI, or the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute, has awarded 13 fellowships for the 2014-2015 school year, the largest number…
What Newsroom Spaces Tell Us About the Future of Digital Journalism
A fellow from the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University has researched an obscure, seemingly trivial facet of…
Daily Must Reads, May 16, 2014
1. New York Times internal report painted dire digital picture (Myles Tanzer / BuzzFeed) 2. Free Press’ Timothy Karr on…
Mediatwits #122: Can NewFronts Move TV Ad Dollars to Online Video?
The TV ad market is still a $78 billion dollar industry, and the amount of ad dollars it commands has…
Big Data for Social Justice: Stackedup.org
For the third installment of her Educational Thought Leader series, Arcadia University education professor Kira J. Baker-Doyle and I had…
Journalism & Digital Education Roundup, May 15, 2014
1. Has Common App turned admissions into a ‘straitjacketed ward of uniformity’? (Eric Hoover / The Chronicle of Higher Education)…
Daily Must Reads, May 15, 2014
1. Pay dispute, native advertising & more: Why Jill Abramson was fired (Ken Auletta / New Yorker) 2. Time Inc.…
Cronkite School Uses Spring Training as a Reporting Lab
The clubhouse was a time machine that took him back nearly 22 years. Todd Rosiak, a beat writer for the…
Futures Lab Update #59: Lingospot, XAPP Ads and Tomorrowish
Reported by Reuben Stern and Olga Kyle. This week we see a second-screen app that can automatically find contextual information;…
Daily Must Reads, May 14, 2014
1. Copy editors carve niche in digital media landscape (Dan Appenfeller / American Journalism Review) 2. Purge pay TV, binge…