Sean Bell Illustrates Lines that Divide Us
Blaring red headlines on the Drudge Report announced to the world that the three New York City Police who shot…
It’s Not Just a Newspaper Problem; It’s a Media Problem
This past week, the National Association of Music Retailers landed in San Francisco to hold their 50th annual convention. Never…
Newspapers Suffer from Marketing Myopia Online
I’ve attended a few conferences and it appears to me that most folks in journalism hate advertising. Maybe that comes…
Connecting People, Content, and Community
One of the main goals of online information design is to present content in a way that allows users/readers to…
Twitter Helps with Reporting, Filtering the News
Last May on MediaShift, we wrote a series of articles about a new microblogging tool called Twitter, which was just…
Copyright and the Demise of Newspapers
Neil Netanel, a highly regarded legal scholar, has an interesting post on Balkinization entitled “The Demise of Newspapers: Economics, Copyright,…
Driving Forward, Toyota Style
When Toyota first began to rise to prominence in this country, the company’s cars were known as cheap, plasticky, not-to-be…
NPR Considers Convergence for Next Generation of Radio Reporters
The younger generation will be our future leaders. We hear that a lot in politics, but it also applies to…
Journalism Class Should be Mandatory in High School
Today I’m publishing a guest post from Ryan Mark, one of the first two journalist-programmers attending the Medill School of…
Looking for the Mouse in Media: Clay Shirky on Cognitive Surplus
Ever wondered: where’s the time going to come from for all these nifty open source ventures people are planning? Clay…