Children’s Magazines Cater to True Early Adopters with Mobile Apps
Digital magazines designed for kids are giving new meaning to the phrase “early adopter.” Children’s magazines have come a long…
3 Non-Profits Train Foreign Journalists to Boost Global Coverage
About seven years ago, Global Press Institute founder Cristi Hegranes was working as a foreign correspondent in Nepal. During a…
Journalists, Marines Find a Middle Ground on Censorship for Basetrack
Sundev Lohr contributed research and writing to this post. How can you share war stories online, in real time, without…
Mapping the Japan Earthquake to Help Recovery Efforts
In the days following the earthquake in Japan, members of the US business community pledged more than $240 million to…
Mediatwits #7: Skype Gets Microsoft-ed; ‘Street Fight’ Returns Fire
Laura Rich Welcome to the seventh episode of “The Mediatwits,” the new revamped longer form weekly audio podcast from MediaShift.…
Comments Are Dead. We Need You to Help Reinvent Them
Let’s face it — technically speaking, comments are broken. With few exceptions, they don’t deliver on their potential to be…
Top 5, May 12, 2011
Google unveils cheap Chromebook No software, just quick web access, apps E-book sales soar HarperCollins exec says hardbacks are getting…
Massive Digital Divide for Native Americans is ‘A Travesty’
Perhaps nowhere in the United States does the digital divide cut as wide as in Indian Country. More than 90…
No Gloom Here: In Latin America, Newspapers Boom
If you spend much time in U.S. newsrooms these days, you might contract a serious case of gloom and doom.…
Much Ado About Obama’s Birth Certificate on DocumentCloud
As we watched traffic stats skyrocket last month as newsroom after newsroom uploaded President Obama’s birth certificate to DocumentCloud and…