Cameras Everywhere: The Promise and Peril for Human Rights
When you hear the phrase “cameras everywhere” your first thought may be of ubiquitous surveillance cameras, watching your every move…
Journalism Education Roundup, Nov. 8, 2011
The best stories across the web on journalism education 1. Leveraging a “teaching hospital model” in journalism education (New America Foundation)…
Daily Must Reads, Nov. 8, 2011
The best stories across the web on media and technology 1. New Nook is latest entry in tablet wars (New York…
Do the Math! How Reporters Squandered the School Loans Story
When President Obama announced his school loan relief plan at the University of Colorado, Denver, a few weeks ago, the…
What Community Builders Can Learn From Gay App Grindr
Unless you’re a gay man with a smartphone, I’ll forgive you for not having heard of Grindr, a social-networking application…
Daily Must Reads, Nov. 7, 2011
The best stories across the web on media and technology 1. Researchers release “socialbots” on Facebook to collect user data for…
With Tools, Tables and Tours, ScraperWiki Wants to Liberate Data
As part of the Knight News Challenge entry, we at ScraperWiki said we would roll out Journalism Data Camps across…
6 Tips to Support Digital News Through Advertising
This is the first in a series of columns on new business models for news and other media. You’ll be…
BlogWorld & New Media Expo
Location: Los Angeles, Calif. BlogWorld moves from Las Vegas to LA, where experts from every field of blogging and new…
Mashable Media Summit
Location: New York, N.Y. The conference hopes to be a forum for scholarly work of both breadth and depth in…