How Newspapers Can Re-Engage with Communities
Will Bunch recently published a piece at American Journalism Review about journalists’ disconnection with the communities they cover, and wondered…
How Outside Firms Like TownNews.com Can Help Small Newspaper Sites
Mark Van Patten Recently, MediaShift started running reports from “embeds” at various media outlets and educational institutions. This report comes…
Five Steps to Foster Innovation in the Newsroom
Last month, Dan Pacheco asked for readers’ ideas on How to Foster Innovation in Newspapers. He was speaking at an…
University of British Columbia Takes Integrated Approach to Teaching Journalism
Alfred Hermida Recently, MediaShift started running reports from “embeds” at various media outlets and educational institutions. This report comes from…
Creating a Video to Help Educate People on Fair Use
Last week, I ran the first part of a special three-part series on fair use in online video. With the…
Five Ways to Gather and Report News with Twitter
I read Chris O’Brien’s IdeaLab post about the latest Twitterquake and the 10 (so far) comments with a great deal…
MediaShift Looking for Embeds, Correspondents, Managing Editor
I just wanted to update readers on changes that are happening here at PBS MediaShift and Idea Lab. In early…
Is Twitter the Newsroom of the Future?
I was sitting at my desk at the San Jose Mercury News on Tuesday when I first heard about the…
Will Code of Best Practices Help Video Mash-Up Artists Stay Legal?
McCain mashup on ColbertNation.com You just created the best video mash-up ever, taking a speech given by John McCain broadcast…
My Advice to Knight on Local Democracy Online
The Knight Foundation is beginning to make some waves in local democracy circles. And I am not just saying that…