Q&A with Marguerite Sullivan: Why Citizen Journalism Makes Media Literacy Crucial
When Marguerite Sullivan started the Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) in 2007, she said she faced skepticism as to whether the…
Mediatwits #97: Investigative Reporting and the Government Shutdown in the Age of Social Media
Investigative reporting is expensive, time-consuming and arduous -- much more so than rapid-fire articles that follow the daily breaking news…
Daily Must Reads, October 4, 2013
1. The government shutdown is terrible for transparency (Matt Berman & Patrick Reis / National Journal) 2. How Twitter's ad…
What Obama’s Vision of OFA Means for Crowdfunding
As the field of civic crowdfunding emerges and grows, it is spawning many competing visions of what the field is…
The Push to Define, Guide ‘Native Advertising’ Intensifies
As media companies of all shapes and sizes experiment with so-called "native advertising," the push to establish guidelines and best…
E-Books & Self-Publishing Roundup, October 3, 2013
1. Columbia University's piracy.lab explores the online world of digital piracy (Sarah Laskow / Columbia Journalism Review) 2. Steven King…
Daily Must Reads, October 3, 2013
1. Social networks in a battle for the second screen (Vindu Goel & Brian Stelter / New York Times) 2.…
Inside NPR’s ‘Mobile-First’ Strategy
When news designers tell Brian Boyer they want to produce big, detailed news projects online, he encourages them to think…
Daily Must Reads, October 2, 2013
1. Is the government shutting down? Quartz will tell you (and drive a little traffic in the process) (Caroline O'Donovan…
Teaching a Journalism MOOC: 5 Tips and Techniques
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have become a hot topic this year in the press. It seems on a daily…