Young Newspaper Journalists Could Flee Because of Slow Pace of Change
As the layoffs and buyouts pile up in U.S. the newspaper industry, and Romenesko becomes a daily wake, there is…
The Newspaper Blurb That Complained to Me
In my daily perusal of the ever-shrinking San Francisco Chronicle print newspaper, I noticed this little blurb tucked away on…
Visualizing the News
Visualization tool: ManyEyes from JD Lasica on Vimeo. At the Future of Civic Media conference at the MIT Media Lab…
How Different Media View Racial Controversies
No matter the medium, the subjects were the same. Jesse Jackson made some rather unwise remarks about Barack Obama and…
Reforming a Mean World: Hero Reports
“In times of terror, when everyone is something of a conspirator, everybody will be in the position of having to…
Huang Qi, Journalist, Formally Arrested
Huang Qi, the Chinese dissident who had been working to uncover information about school buildings that collapsed during the May…
A Call for Quality Comments
A few days ago I was snooping around Digg when I noticed a popular submission titled The Difference Between Digg…
EU Member’s Plan for ‘Blogger Registry’ Is Wrong-Headed
When blogs were born over 10 years ago as a way to share the details of one’s life with a…
Virtual Voting: Finding Our Audience Where They Roam
(A Street Team ’08 video by our Connecticut reporter plays at Election HQ in MTV’s Virtual World.) One of the…
Hero Reports Website
One of the graduate students working with our Center for Future Civic Media at MIT was offended by the New…