Citizens, Media Use Social Media to Monitor Election
In a YouTube video uploaded on October 24, a husband and wife couple from Oregon sit at their kitchen table…
The Challenge of Bringing Net Access to Poorest Areas
This week, I’ve given a lot of thought to how poor communities on the other side of the digital divide…
The IncluderEpisode 8People Vs. Ideas
The Includer stays alive, as an idea, thanks to last year’s Knight News Challenge. At the Las Vegas awards ceremony,…
Not All Journalism Students Hip to Social Media
Right now I’m attending a national conference in Kansas City (Associated Collegiate Press/College Media Advisers) for student news organizations, and…
How Philanthropy, Education and Industry Can Partner
The Crunchberry Project is now officially past the halfway point, and I’m getting a clearer picture of what our student…
SOMESSO
Location: Zurich, Switzerland SOMESSO is an event bringing together bankers, advertisers, new media experts, Internet entrepreneurs, and other financiers to…
The Role of Citizen Media in Ensuring Fair Elections
Yesterday, I read an article in the New York Times describing the fears some voters in Duval County, Florida have…
Judges Rule Anonymous Commenters Protected by State Shield Laws
Political campaigns often produce a blizzard of ancillary election-related litigation — for an example, just look to the 2000 presidential…
Social Media Strategies Conference
Location: San Francisco, CA This is a conference for businesses on how to use social-networking media, including blogs, micro-blogging, wikis,…
Apply for a Knight News Challenge Grant by Nov. 1
Here at MediaShift Idea Lab, you get to hear directly from all the innovators who received grants from the Knight…