How Did My Predictions for 2011 Turn Out?
It’s not too hard to make predictions. What’s harder is to honestly evaluate how you did. In that spirit, I’d…
Idea Lab: Year in Review 2011
Click here to read the whole series It’s been an eventful year on MediaShift’s Idea Lab, marked by mergers, beta…
Top 10 Media Stories of 2011: Arab Spring; R.I.P. Steve Jobs; Phone Hacking
Yes, 2011 was another year of massive change in the American media landscape, with newspapers struggling, radio and TV trying…
If We Were Starting NPR’s Project Argo in 2012
For the past two years, I’ve been working on Project Argo — a collaboration among NPR and 12 member stations…
Public Media: A Wish List for 2012
What’s the No. 1 innovation that’s needed in public media in 2012? I posed that question to the public media…
When a Game Only Looks Like a Game
In our research on newsgames, we proselytize the power of videogames to model events in the world small and big,…
Daily Must Reads, Dec. 23, 2011
The best stories across the web on media and technology, curated by Nathan Gibbs 1. FCC proposes relaxing newspaper-TV ownership rules (Los…
Wiretapping, SOPA, Occupy: 2011 Was a Tumultuous Year in Media Law
Click here to read the whole series This piece is co-authored by Jeff Hermes and Andy Sellars. This year turned…
Special Series: Year in Review 2011
It’s holiday time, and that means travel mania, less work and yes, year-end roundups. Yes, they are the lazy way…
What’s Your Favorite 24-Hour Cable News Channel?
Cable news used to be so simple. There was CNN and not much else. But as CNN proved the case…