Women in Media & Technology
Location: New York City SobelMedia’s fourth annual holiday breakfast is focused on women who are “making deals and making news.”…
J-School Incubator News21 Balances Investigations, Innovation
Education content on MediaShift is sponsored by the USC Annenberg nine-month M.A. in Specialized Journalism. USC’s highly customized degree programs…
Introducing Sourcerer: A Context Management System
If you want to follow the news, the web has a lot to offer: a wide variety of information sources,…
Brussels Leaks Tries to Build on WikiLeaks Idea in EU
A new site, Brussels Leaks, modeled after WikiLeaks, launched out of the blue last Thursday to much excitement in the…
A Brief History of Newsgames: Combining News + Videogames
The [newsgames project](http://jag.lcc.gatech.edu/blog/), which this year won a [News Challenge grant](http://mediashift.org/idealab/2010/09/the-cartoonist-aims-to-bring-newsgames-to-the-masses243.html), began two and a half years ago with a…
WikiLeaks and the Power of Patriotism
A narrow patriotism — the psychological equivalent of a knee jerk — is an under-recognized force in modern journalism ethics.…
Top 5 December 14, 2010
Time spent online equal to TV Time spent on Net grew 121 percent in 5 years The Atlantic in the…
How OpenStreetMap Helps to Curb Haiti’s Cholera Epidemic
In order to respond to the current cholera epidemic in Haiti, it’s essential that citizens, aid groups and others are…
Why I Want a Hulu for Sports (And Why It Won’t Happen Soon)
When it comes to television shows and events, we the people have been taking more and more control of what…
1st Arab Social Media Forum
Location: Amman, Jordan This pioneering regional conference will focus exclusively on social media in the Middle East and North Africa.…