E-Books & Self-Publishing Roundup, March 25, 2014
1. Are e-readers environmentally friendly? (Mike Kozlowski / Good e-Reader) 2. Opinion: Sorry, but books will be like Netflix, with…
Daily Must Reads, March 25, 2014
1. Disney to buy YouTube network Maker Studios for $500 million (Ronald Grover / Reuters) 2. Journalists group and Internet…
Lessons From the Rocky Launch of Amtrak’s Writing Residency Program
Like most writers, I got super excited when I heard about Amtrak's program for authors. The much-lauded Amtrak Residency program…
Can 22nd Century Media Succeed in Hyper-Local With a Print-First Mantra?
Hyper-local publishing chains have tried and failed so many times that it's hard to keep track of them all. The…
Daily Must Reads, March 24, 2014
1. Apple in talks with Comcast about streaming-TV service (Shalini Ramachandran, Daisuke Wakabayashi & Amol Sharma / Wall Street Journal)…
Course Remix: Meshing Reporting Skills and Multimedia Storytelling
Teaching journalism in the 21st century is a little like packing a wardrobe for a month-long trip into a carry-on…
How Chalkbeat Is Studying and Building Its Audience
Why study your audience? Simply put, without audiences there would be no media. In other words, a news outlet can’t…
Daily Must Reads, March 21, 2014
1. Survey: Emerging and developing nations want freedom on the Internet (Pew Research) 2. Internet tolls and the case for…
Mediatwits #114: Will Robots Take Over Simple Tasks for Journalists?
This week, when a 4.4-magnitude earthquake hit L.A., the L.A. Times’ Ken Schwencke was the first to break the story.…
Journalism & Digital Education Roundup, March 20, 2014
1. Survey: MOOC students are educated, employed, and male (Gayle Christensen & Brandon Alcorn / Slate) 2. Another day, another…