Flexibility, Freelance Key for Journalism Grads in Tough Job Market
Stephanie Lim is a bright twenty-something who graduated top of her class in May 2009* from the UBC School of…
How to Use Meta-Stories to Engage the Newsroom, Community
How do we create a community? This question is frequently asked by editors as well as by marketing managers and…
The Search for a New Revenue Model in Journalism
My writing on PBS Idea Lab was introduced to me as a way to publicly discuss the growth of Spot.Us,…
Announcing the Technology for Transparency Network
Internet technologies give governments an unprecedented ability to monitor our communication, internet activity, and even the microphones on our cell…
5 Recent Big Moves In Hyper-Local News
The pace of change for hyper-local news sites and related businesses is dizzying. It’s hard to keep up, especially if…
Top 5 January 19, 2010
NY Times pay wall coming? New York mag says yes; billionaire NYT investor Carlos Slim in favor of idea Google…
Centralizing a People Finder for Haiti, Plus an SMS 911
The information activist community has been rushing to respond to the Haitian earthquake. What I find remarkable is the capacity…
4 Minute Roundup: Text Donations to Haiti; Google.cn Uncensored
Here’s the latest 4MR audio report from MediaShift. In this week’s edition, I look at the way social media and…
Finding Common Ground Between Citizen Art and Citizen Journalism
Comparisons are rarely drawn between the fields of art and journalism. But most of last month’s work on my Knight…
Free Kiswahili Synthetic Voice for Freedom Fone a Possibility
Freedom Fone’s ability to fulfill it’s promise as a must have tool for bridging the digital divide has yet to…