Daily Must Reads, August 14, 2013
1. Google: Gmail users have no reason to expect privacy (Gizmodo) 2. San Francisco Chronicle said to demolish pay wall…
Inside Vox Media’s Liveblogging Machine
Recently, we looked at Vox Media's strategy to build a modern media company. One big way the company has made…
MIT Media Lab, d.school Point the Way Toward Decentralized, Networked Learning
According to the ancient Greeks, humans received the gift of fire from the Titan, Prometheus. Paleoanthropologists have unearthed evidence that…
Journalism & Digital Education Roundup, August 13, 2013
1. Finberg: Journalism schools need to adapt or risk becoming irrelevant (Poynter) 2. New Columbia j-school dean 'elated' to start…
Daily Must Reads, August 13, 2013
1. How the iPhone and bad decisions killed Blackberry (New Yorker) 2. Award-winning digital entrepreneur Lisa Williams joins Investigative News…
‘Remembering Tiananmen’ iBook Brings Longform Journalism Across Closed Borders
E-books offer new channels for journalists to engage with an audience and tell great stories, whether it is with a…
Daily Must Reads, August 12, 2013
1. NBC News buys live-video streaming site to incorporate citizen journalism, boost news coverage (The Next Web) 2. Study: Mobile…
Do Journalists Need a Journalism Degree? Educators, Practitioners Disagree
The age old question has cropped up again, but this time with a digital angle: Does a journalist today still…
Want to Work at NY Times, ProPublica, Texas Tribune? Apply to Be a Knight-Mozilla Fellow
This is it. There are only five days remaining to apply to become a 2014 Knight-Mozilla Fellow. If you love…
Daily Must Reads, August 9, 2013
1. Patch is laying off hundreds of employees on Friday (Romenesco) 2. Labavit, the secure email service Edward Snowden reportedly…