The Shutdown of UWIRE and the Implications for College Media
Last month, UWIRE.com, an edited college media newswire, mysteriously vanished from the Internet. “UWIRE, a popular service that aggregated articles…
Young Political Candidates Confronted by Digital Past on Facebook
Last spring Emanuel Pleitez, 26, ran for California’s 32nd Congressional seat in a special election to replace Hilda Solis, the…
Top 5 November 17, 2009
Mixed messages on paid content 48 percent would pay for online news; Forrester finds 80 percent would stop reading Slate…
DigiFest Examines DIY to Big Budget Special Effects for Films
Apocalyptic visions and alien invasions descended upon Hollywood earlier this month, to the collective delight of the digital media industry.…
Gearing up Citizen Journalism in Grahamstown, South Africa
Low literacy environments, and multi-lingual areas, like Grahamstown, South Africa, face particular challenges when it comes to encouraging citizen journalism.…
Changes in Media Over the Past 550 Years
Sergii Danylenko and Anna Prymakova asked me to speak about “changes in media over the past five years“ at MediaCamp…
Media and Money
Location: New York Leaders in the fields of media, entertainment and finance will gather in New York for this conference.…
4 Minute Roundup: Murdoch-Google Spat; Ft. Hood Shooting on Twitter
Here’s the latest 4MR audio report from MediaShift. In this week’s edition, I look at recent comments by News Corp.…
Reporting with Mobile Phones: The Experience of Voices of Africa
(This story was written by Anne-Ryan Heatwole of MobileActive.org.) Mobile phones are the tool of choice for a new group…
Media140 Brings Old and New Media Together, With Explosive Results
Over 300 people gathered under the Media140 banner in a concert hall at Australia’s national public broadcaster ABC in Sydney…