Magazine Writers Are Slow to Take Up Multimedia
An ideal pitch for a magazine story today would seem to require great possibilities for text and for multimedia. Freelance…
Which Smartphone Is for You: iPhone or Android?
Betamax or VHS? Mac or PC? Blu-ray or HD DVD? Format wars have been waged for years in the media…
Top 5 June 24, 2010
YouTube prevails vs. Viacom Court rules YouTube protected by “safe harbor” of DMCA Media execs bullish on mobile Ernst &…
Your Guide to Digital Training Programs for Mid-Career Journalists
Education content on MediaShift is sponsored by Carnegie-Knight News21, an alliance of 12 journalism schools in which top students tell…
Gathering Examples of Collaboration in Investigative Reporting
I recently attended the Investigative Reporters and Editors 2010 conference and ended up talking with Astrid Gynnild, a post doctoral…
Top 5, June 22, 2010
Google’s Newspass coming? Service would help publishers charge for content Big losses on social networks Losses on acquisitions of Bebo,…
Newsroom Collaborations: The New Culture of Sharing vs. Competing
At last week’s Future Civic Media conference at MIT there was a barcamp session on “collaborations in the newsroom” led…
Crisis in Kyrgyzstan Shows Need for ‘Responsible Content’
Back in 1996, my Columbia University colleague Jack Snyder and his co-author, Karen Ballentine, published a ground-breaking article called Nationalism…
FeedBrewer Pays It Forward to Knight Media Innovation Fund
Last week at MIT’s annual Future of News and Civic Media conference, I stood on the stage with Knight Foundation…
Is Aussie Journalism Education Lagging in Teaching Online Skills?
Education content on MediaShift is sponsored by Carnegie-Knight News21, an alliance of 12 journalism schools in which top students tell…