Look Beyond Data When Considering New Models for News
My post last month — Future of Local News About More Than Paid Content — generated some thoughtful discussion and…
Report from Gov 2.0: A Nerd, Suit, Spook, and Database Smoothie
I had not planned on attending O’Reilly’s Gov2.0 conference, which is an exposition and dialog about new forms of government…
Can Allvoices Succeed as Citizen Journalism Platform?
With Examiner.com recently buying out citizen media site NowPublic for a reported $25 million, the attention turned to similar independent…
Movie Apps Get Social as Studios Integrate Facebook Connect
Movie studios fully understand the influence that word-of-mouth reviews, whether positive or negative, have on box office receipts. Social networks…
Community Media’s Path Out of Obscurity
Times of great change represent an opportunity to shift power, and the power shift many of us are working towards…
Improving Access to Information is One Way to Make Reporting Cheaper
When he’s not toasting escapism, our tireless editor Mark Glaser has been asking why reporting costs so much. I can’t…
In Search of the Perfect Skillset for a Programmer/Journalist
In my first post about programmer/journalists, I wrote about the “how computer-assisted reporting (CAR) evolved into this new role. Although…
Top 5 Sept. 8, 2009
Examiner buys NowPublic Citizen journalism site reportedly fetches $25 million Google gives in to Europeans Offers concessions to publishers over…
The Shocking Truth About Journalism, Activism, and the Healthcare Reform Debate
A few weeks ago, I spotted a link to something called deathpanels.org getting passed around Twitter, and quickly traced its…
Can Health Care Blogs Fill the Gap Left by Mainstream News Coverage?
Paul Testa recently checked his voicemail and listened to a message from a hospice worker who lives in a conservative…