Ideas for Professional Journalists to Prove Their Value
If you were a professional journalist and I asked you, “what does mainstream media provide that the crowd can’t?” I…
Crowdsourcing Keeps Coming
At Gotham Gazette, we’re gathering our bearings and preparing work on a pretty great crowdsourcing project (though this business of…
Inzwa: Listen up!
This week, Kubatana launched Inzwa, Zimbabwe’s experiment with Freedom Fone, providing audio information via mobile phones. We’ll be updating our…
Lessons Learned in Rollout of ReportingOn 2.0
Those of you who have been keeping score surely noticed that I’ve saddled the iteration of ReportingOn that launched late…
Nika System Brings Reader SMS Messages into Newspaper’s Workflow
Recent research support the idea that South Africans, 15 years after the heroic levels of participation that led to overthrow…
Getting the Daily Phoenix Off the Ground
Before I dive in, I’d like to give readers a brief overview of what exactly our project, Daily Phoenix, is.…
MediaShift Looking for Editor, Salesperson, Marketer, Correspondents
I want to update readers on some contract job openings here at PBS MediaShift. Even with the harsh economic downturn…
4 Minute Roundup: NYTimes.com Charging?; AP’s Sotomayor Blog
Here’s the latest 4MR audio report from MediaShift. In this week’s edition, I look at the latest move by the…
Some Bloggers Welcome FTC Scrutiny for Paid Reviews
When it was reported in 2006 that the FTC would begin forcing word-of-mouth companies — which paid people to hype…
The Importance of Free Speech Online in Iran, China, Kenya
In a crisis, governments will often curtail freedom of the press, censoring or shutting broadcasts and newspapers. But blocking websites,…