Top 5 October 13, 2010
New Yorker gawks at Nick Denton Gawker founder talks about journalism’s future Twitter’s push into ads Service proving to be…
Student Team — Including Five “Programmer-Journalists” — Seeks Hyperlocal Solutions
In December 2008, a class of Northwestern University journalism master’s students — including two Knight "programmer-journalist" scholarship winners — unveiled…
A Self-Publisher’s Guide to Metadata for Books
Metadata used to be a wallflower, hiding out at the library with the Dewey Decimal system. Now it’s at every…
The Best User Feedback Comes From Watching and Listening
ProPublica used DocumentCloud to develop an excellent story they published Friday. I’d planned to write it up, but Krista Kjellman…
Howard Kurtz Leaves Post for ‘More Nimble’ Daily Beast
Howard Kurtz is not only the dean of American media critics, but he has “walked the talk” of his obsession…
FutureM
Location: Boston, MA FutureM is a week-long series of panels and conversations about the future of marketing, including a geo-marketing…
4 Minute Roundup: AOL Buys TechCrunch; Knight Updates News Challenge
4MR is sponsored by Carnegie-Knight News21, an alliance of 12 journalism schools in which top students tell complex stories in…
How Climate Activists Are Warming to Social Media
American environmentalists recently suffered a pair of devastating defeats in their decades-long effort to halt global warming. Progress stalled on…
Digital Music Forum West
Location: Los Angeles, CA Music industry discusses the future of digital music. Includes reps from Yahoo, eBay, and other record…
Top 5 October 7, 2010
AOL and Yahoo to merge? Investors like the idea and AOL’s CEO is interested iPhone 4 coming to Verizon WSJ…