Amazon’s Fail: Not Using Social Media to React to #AmazonFail Meme
In what some initially speculated to be a homophobic new expurgation policy, Amazon.com removed hundreds of gay and lesbian themed…
Going Beyond SMS for Cheaper Cell Phone Journalism in Africa
Although newspapers have gone through 150 years of evolution away from popular contributions and towards fully professional writing, technology is…
How to Teach Yourself About Social Media When J-Schools Fail
Journalism is changing rapidly due to social media, and these changes can be bewildering as people wonder how to keep…
Top Five Two Hundred Thirty One
#AmazonFail Twitter uproar over Amazon delisting gay books; Hodder faults human error Journalism Online Wants pay wall around news content;…
Turning a College Lecture into a Conversation with CoverItLive
Journalists who also teach will know that one of the challenges of teaching a large, undergraduate class is the sheer…
College Media Miss Opportunities Covering the Economic Crisis
If you’re like me, you know more about economics now than you ever thought you’d want to know. I can…
An After-Life for Newspapers
Everywhere you look there are dark signs for newspapers: bankruptcies, less print editions, the threat of closings in San Francisco…
MediaBids Could Help Solve Ad Sales Process for Hyper-Local Pubs
In a recent post, I argued that the problem facing newspapers today has nothing to do with the notion that…
ProPublica’s ChangeTracker Lets You Watch Government’s Moves
What It Is ChangeTracker is a project at ProPublica that watches three government websites — Whitehouse.gov, Recovery.gov and Financialstability.gov —…
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Trouble at Boston Globe NY Times Co. threatens shutdown without union concessions AP’s threat to thieves Singleton makes vague threat…