Daily Must Reads, May 2, 2014
1. The newsonomics of Quartz, 19 months in (Ken Doctor / Nieman Lab) 2. How Bleacher Report gamified journalism for…
Mediatwits #120: Mideast Media Study Shows Demand for Social Media, Censored Films
Even though Western music and movies are a major export to the Middle East, many people there support censoring these…
Journalism & Digital Education Roundup, May 1, 2014
1. Trustee quits after Columbia University paper votes to decrease publication (Mike Vilensky / Wall Street Journal) 2. With free…
Daily Must Reads, May 1, 2014
1. A $10 million boost for millennial media startup PolicyMic (Brian Stelter / CNN Money) 2. Moving the newsroom: Post-industrial…
A Social Experiment: Boosting Jason Shepard’s Twitter Following
When I recently saw my friend and former teaching assistant Jason Shepard covered in a story on faculty using Twitter, I giggled…
Mideast Media Study: Facebook Rules; Censoring Entertainment OK
A new study by Northwestern University in Qatar and the Doha Film Institute reveals that Middle Eastern citizens are quite…
What I Learned About Crowdfunding From Peruvian Chicken
There’s a tradition in Peru called the pollada – literally, a chicken party. These parties perform a very important social…
Daily Must Reads, April 30, 2014
1. Twitter and TV working just fine, says Twitter (Peter Kafka / Re/code) 2. Condé Nast to launch new digital…
What’s the Monetary Value of Social Shares?
The question isn’t quite age-old, but it is one that has been asked since the rise of social networks: How…
Futures Lab Update #57: Social Participation TV
Reported by Reuben Stern and Olga Kyle. On-air TV programming combined with social media channels -- dubbed "Social participation TV" -- is…