Mediatwits #119: Broadcasters vs. Aereo in Supreme Court; Netflix vs. AT&T
This week, the Supreme Court began hearings to determine if Aereo’s broadcast-TV-time-shifting model is legal. Aereo is an antenna middle man…
Journalism & Digital Education Newsletter, April 24, 2014
1. Columbia student paper plans to drop daily print edition (Peter Sterne / Capital New York) 2. What MIT learned…
Daily Must Reads, April 24, 2014
1. FCC to propose new 'net neutrality' rules (Gautham Nagesh / Wall Street Journal) 2. FremantleMedia claims rights to YouTube…
Risk and Reporting: The Dangers of Freelance Journalism in Syria
The death of Canadian freelance photographer Ali Mustafa while documenting the Syrian civil war illustrates the persistent problem of the safety of…
Want to Win a Hackathon? Here’s How
We realized early on that if we were going to even have a shot at winning the first Pearl Hacks…
Digital Book World’s Top 10 E-Book Bestsellers; Week Ending 4-19-14
Amazon Publishing joins an extremely exclusive club this week on the e-book bestseller list: publishers with more than one No.…
Daily Must Reads, April 23, 2014
1. Study: How is user-generated content used in TV news? (Justin Ellis / Nieman Lab) 2. The right (and wrong)…
Future-Proofing News Apps
Let’s say that you’re a historian in 2064 and you want to look at the New York Times for a…
The Impact of Google Glass on Digital Marketing
The way individuals interact online is consistently changing -- especially with the release of the Google Glass. On April 15, Google…
Futures Lab Update #56: Beaming Mobile Video to TV; Vizrt’s Video-Editing App
Reported by Reuben Stern and Olga Kyle. This week we explore some new tools that push video from smartphones to…