Daily Must Reads, April 22, 2014
1. Netflix calls out AT&T for lackluster streaming performance (Crayton Harrison / Businessweek) 2. Jonah Lehrer quietly launches new blog,…
E-Books & Self-Publishing Roundup, April 22, 2014
1. Amazon takes half of UK's online retail spend (The Bookseller) 2. E-book self-publishing: Brave new words (Vivian Wagner /…
Knight Prototype Fund’s Winners Include Transparency Tools, Open Gov
Seventeen media innovators will have a chance to push their projects from idea to actual demos, thanks to grants of…
Journalism Schools Should Educate Non-Journalists and ‘Almost-Journalists’ Too
The "practice" side of journalism education has traditionally had one major goal: to feed new journalists into the news business.…
Daily Must Reads, April 21, 2014
1. Aereo case will shape TV’s future (David Carr / New York Times) 2. Newspaper industry narrowed revenue loss in…
How Three Independent News Sites Survived Their First Five Years
Launching a news publication online is the easy part. Paying the bills and surviving for several years is the hard…
Watch and Learn: What’s So Good About U.S. Media Startups?
We're halfway through our Tow-Knight program in Entrepreneurial Journalism in New York. Within the last two months, we argued with…
How Medill Uses ‘Searchlights and Sunglasses’ in the Classroom
Owen Youngman, Knight Professor of Digital Media Strategy at Northwestern University has been using Searchlights and Sunglasses by Eric Newton as a textbook in his…
Daily Must Reads, April 18, 2014
1. Big labels take aim at Pandora on royalties (Ben Sisario / New York Times) 2. After big payday for…
Top 5 Data-Scraping Tools for Would-Be Data Journalists
This post originally appeared on Northwestern University Knight Lab’s blog. This past fall, I spent time with the NPR News…