Top 5 November 3, 2009
Texas Tribune launches Non-profit news outfit delivers reporting and data Quitting over pay wall Saul Friedman quits column over Newsday’s…
Politicians Use Social Media to Bypass the Press Corps
Politicians are figuring out what social media technologies like blogs, Facebook, MySpace and Twitter have to offer: direct access to…
The New Era of Media Development, Part III
Spend your money wisely: this is the mandate given to program officers of philanthropic, government, and multilateral donor organizations. Each…
4 Minute Roundup: Scoble on Twitter Lists; Time, Newsweek Hurting
Here’s the latest 4MR audio report from MediaShift. In this week’s edition, I look at Twitter Lists and how they…
eComm Conference & Awards
Location: Amsterdam This conference exists to encourage communications innovation in the mobile and Internet worlds. Explore the profit opportunities created…
Hyper-Local a Hot Topic at All Russia Media Forum
The SochiReporter team recently presented our project at the 14th All Russia Media Forum, held in Dagomys, Sochi, in late…
It’s Now or Never For Citizen Journalists and Federal Shield Law
When Sen. Charles Schumer amended the Senate’s bill to exclude unpaid reporters, bloggers, and citizen journalists from a proposed federal…
DocumentCloud Going Open Source Every Step of the Way
What does it mean to work on a project where open-source principles are written into the founding contract? A little…
Harold Evans Sees Bright Future for Print-on-Demand Newspapers
This is one in an occasional series on MediaShift where I discuss issues in-depth with thought leaders in online media.…
Why the Future of Online Speech Depends on Net Neutrality
Late last week, the Federal Communications Commission announced it was seeking public input on draft rules that would codify and…