Games with Legs
I’ve gotten a small handful of emails commending me for my fine work on our latest game, the NYC Voting…
When the Star of the Story is Understanding Itself
Maybe information and explanation ought to be reversed in our order of thought. Especially as we contemplate new news systems.…
Participants of ‘Our City Our Voices’ Release First Videos
The participants of Media Mobilizing Project and Juntos’s Immigrant and Low-Wage worker video project have finished their first batch of…
Your Guide to the iPhone
From time to time, I’ll give an overview of one broad MediaShift topic, annotated with online resources and plenty of…
The Turning Tide for Online News
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been interviewing candidates for an associate editor’s position at the Daily News. Several things…
Revisiting Foreign Libel Law’s Pernicious Impact on First Amendment Speech
Back in April, I blogged over at the Citizen Media Law Project about New York’s Libel Terrorism Protection Act, which…
We Always Needed Something New: Journalism Meets World
Where will today’s journalists will find tomorrow’s jobs, Amy Gahran asks, and partially answers, in a recent Idealab post. She…
How PaidContent Succeeded in Mining Digital Media Niche
Rafat Ali Why is this man smiling? Rafat Ali was just another freelance journalist back in 2002, and wanted to…
Top 5 Week One Hundred Two
iPhone 3G Apple sells 1 million phones despite glitches PaidContent gets paid Digital media site bought by Guardian for $30…
An Introduction to ReportingOn
I’ve been writing about ReportingOn, my Knight News Challenge project, in fits and starts for 11 months now, but it’s…