Daily Must Reads, March 18, 2014
1. FiveThirtyEight and the end of average (Ben Thompson / Stratechery) 2. New Brazilian platform expands boundaries of in-depth news…
Updating the Missouri Method with Rapid Iteration, Multi-Platform Delivery
This is the second installment of Jim Flink's coverage of his new multi-platform experiment at the University of Missouri. Check…
SXSW Docs Fall Short in Showcasing Diversity
Is diversity an afterthought in film fest programming, or is the production pipeline just really skewed toward the same race…
Daily Must Reads, March 17, 2014
1. The (online) media’s shameful Malaysia Airlines coverage: Gawking at a foreign disaster (Nicholas Quah / Salon) 2. How Twitter…
Social Media Editors in the Newsroom: What the Job is Really Like
Monday through Friday, Scott Kleinberg’s alarm goes off at 5:30 a.m. The Chicago Tribune social media editor then begins combing…
Mediatwits #113: Did Newsweek Bungle Bitcoin Founder Unmasking? Plus: A Report from SXSW
Last week, Newsweek resurrected its print issue with a splash, featuring a story that claimed to reveal the founder of…
Students Should Tap Their Professors for Job Networking
You're sitting in the back of a giant lecture hall as a professor goes on about some theory. You're taking…
Daily Must Reads, March 14, 2014
1. Russia wipes opposition sites from the Internet (Max Seddon / BuzzFeed) 2. Plex opens up Chromecast to everyone, adds…
Spending Stories Makes Its Spanish Debut
It was bound to happen in an organization such as the Open Knowledge Foundation. People who have never met face…
Journalism & Digital Education Roundup, March 13, 2014
1. ASU journalism school set to launch center for network of citizen sources (AZ Central) 2. Seen and heard at…