Mediatwits #118: Special Report on Drones as Google Buys Titan Aerospace
Recently drones have become ubiquitous in the media, and not just for executing civilians abroad. Newsrooms are using drones to…
Journalism & Digital Education Roundup, April 17, 2014
1. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt chief content officer: We should ban "digital" learning (Mary Cullinane / EdSurge) 2. Teaching adolescents how…
Daily Must Reads, April 17, 2014
1. Barry Diller: Broadcasters don't own the airwaves but they still want to stop you from watching via devices (Barry…
Columbia’s Lede Program Aims to Go Beyond the Data Hype
This all began at Joe’s Coffee on the Columbia University campus one morning last spring. Mark Hansen was then teaching journalism…
Futures Lab Update #55: Google and the News Industry
Reported by Reuben Stern and Olga Kyle. This week we chat with David Gehring, who works with global alliances and…
Daily Must Reads, April 16, 2014
1. Biz Stone: Twitter must ‘make bold choices to survive with the times’ (Harrison Weber / VentureBeat) 2. Exclusive: Automattic…
Oregon State Media Advisor Quits Over Public Records Dispute
There’s good, bad and ugly in the tale of former Oregon State University student media adviser Kate Willson. “Former,” because…
In Venezuela, Data Journalism Is Taking Off
At the end of nine exhausting yet exhilarating days spent in three Venezuelan cities, I watched 30 journalists present the…
E-Books & Self-Publishing Roundup, April 15, 2014
1. Students reading e-books are losing out, study suggests (Annie Murphy Paul / New York Times) 2. Entitle brings Its…
Daily Must Reads, April 15, 2014
1. To the Snowden story system a crowning Pulitzer might have gone (Jay Rosen / Press Think) 2. Pulitzer board…