Vietnam Cracks Down on Dissident Blogger Dieu Cay
In Vietnam, speaking out against the government can come with a hefty price. Blogger Dieu Cay (“the Peasant Water Pipe”)…
Pulitzers Open to Online-Only Entrants — But Who Qualifies?
When it was announced earlier this year that Joshua Marshall, founder of TalkingPointsMemo, had become the first blogger to win…
ReportingOn: Changing Horses Mid-Stream is Easy When You’re the Horse
DIY development, design, community management, and marketing isn’t for me (this year). This is an update about what’s going on…
Why Spot.Us Should Have Used Drupal (and Why It Doesn’t Matter)
It’s the one that got away. With many Knight News Challenge projects using Drupal, the dedicated Knight Drupal Initiative (reopening…
Hiring for Change: How to Staff a New Media Project
Now, I had something all ready to post, but I loved Chris O’Brien’s post on Mistakes I Made With The…
Nettwerk CEO Terry McBride Puts Fans in Charge of Bands
The people formerly known as the audience (TPFKATA) are doing more than just fact-checking newspaper stories, time-shifting TV shows and…
Updating the Pulitzer Prizes for the Internet Age
The people who run the Pulitzer Prizes, undoubtedly America’s premier journalism awards, have taken some useful steps into the 21st…
Iindaba Ziyafika: The News Is Coming
The news has started to flow. It’s a trial-trickle from township teenagers, through to other social groupings in Grahamstown. With…
Making News More Transparent
With our Knight News Challenge grant we (the Media Standards Trust and Web Science Research Initiative) are exploring and developing…
Mistakes I Made with the Next Newsroom Project
Now that I’ve officially completed the work on our Knight Foundation News Challenge grant that funded the Next Newsroom project,…