Digital Capital Week
Location: Washington, D.C. This ten day festival is “focused on technology, innovation and all things digital in our nation’s capital.”…
Beyond Print & Paper: Authorship, Publishing and the Digital Platform Challenge
Location: New York, NY This panel brings together Andrew Richard Albanese (Publishers Weekly), Rachel Chou (Open Road Integrated Media), Alan…
6 Takeaways from ‘TechDirt Saves Journalism’ Event at Google
What will the journalism landscape look like five to 10 years from now? The megatrend of unbundled, specialty-focused niche sources…
Mobile Phone Gathering Outlines Successful Projects
CAMBRIDGE, MASS. — A catalog of pioneering mobile phone projects for news and information was the centerpiece of an informal…
Why Can’t Journalists Handle Public Criticism?
Why do so many journalists find it so hard to handle public criticism? If you’re an athlete, you’re used to…
Spot.Us Case Study Shows Impact of Crowdfunding on Journalism
Platforms such as Spot.Us and Kickstarter have shown that crowdfunding can work as a financing mechanism for journalism. We will…
Top 5 June 17, 2010
Bebo sold by AOL Gets less than $10 million vs. paying $850 million for it 2 years ago Knight News…
Live-Blogging #FNCM: Moving from Crowdsourcing to Crowdbuilding
CAMBRIDGE, MASS. — After the announcement of the Knight News Challenge winners came the first “plenary session” at the Future…
Knight Announces News Challenge Winners for 2010
CAMBRIDGE, MASS. — I am at MIT for the announcement of the latest round of News Challenge winners. First up…
Four More “Programmer-Journalists” Reach Halfway Point
Ever since the first Knight "programmer-journalist" scholars enrolled in the journalism master’s program at the Medill School, I have checked…