VIDEO: Knight’s Michael Maness on Key Takeaways From the MIT-Knight Media Conference
The MIT-Knight Civic Media Conference has just wrapped up in Cambridge, Mass., and Michael Maness, who leads Knight’s Journalism and…
E-books and Self-Publishing Roundup, June 21, 2012
The best stories of the week from across the web on e-books and self-publishing 1. More than 50 percent of…
Daily Must Reads, June 21, 2012
The best stories across the web on media and technology, curated by Lily Leung 1. Yahoo, Facebook still in patent…
Starting a Daily Paper Uniting a Struggling Europe: Crazy or Genuis?
Imagine a Tuesday morning in Rome. A woman dressed in business attire drinks her espresso while browsing the European Daily…
140 Characters Conference
Location: New York, NY #140conf exposes you to the power the Internet has to disrupt businesses, change lives and create…
How Public Lab Drafts the Public With Its Open-Source Tool Development Process
Public Lab has spoken a lot on Idea Lab about building “recursive publics,” in which people are knowledgeable about and…
Daily Must Reads, June 20, 2012
The best stories across the web on media and technology, curated by Lily Leung 1. Barnes & Noble reports $57.7…
How the Death of a Janitor Captured a City’s Media Narrative for 6 Years
SPOKANE, Wash. — For years, Otto Zehm lived an unassuming life on this city’s margins — working as a janitor…
Journalism and Digital Education Roundup, June 19, 2012
The best stories across the web on journalism and digital education 1. “Without a robust future for journalism education, it…
Knight-Mozilla OpenNews to Offer Source for Journalism Code, Community
Way back in November, as the ideas that led to Knight-Mozilla’s OpenNews relaunch were starting to be articulated, I wrote…