Hologram reporters cover the election results on CNN!
Proposal to make primary source documents used by journalists available online for the public to search. Interesting points in the comments about copyright issues and the difference between primary and mediated information.
The Christian Science Monitor--winner of 7 Pulitzer Prizes--announced it is cutting the print version of its weekly paper and will appear online only. Who else will follow?
This short piece highlights how social networking is influencing the
ways in which media outlets are distributing and deploying their
information. Reading this article, I started to think about the ways in
which Christensen (sp?) describes how businesses can target specific
demographics of nonconsumption.
a three-dimensional role-playing game to teach students about the intricacies of being a journalist: coming up with a story angle, identifying sources, preparing questions, synthesizing information, and writing an article.
"Youth Radio's mission is to promote young people's intellectual, creative and professional growth through training and access to media and to produce the highest quality original media for local and national outlets"
"Josh Wolf, a 24-year-old blogger, has spent more than six months behind bars in California -- the longest contempt-of-court term ever served by someone in the media"
"Over the past months, I've heard several journalists make the same comment at various industry forums: That blogs are a "parasitic" medium that wouldn't be able to exist without the reporting done at newspapers.
"With big corporations now hiring public relations firms to pay fake bloggers to plant favorable opinions of the businesses online, many political bloggers are concerned that candidates, too, will hire people to pretend to be grass-roots citizens expressing views."
"Jim Zumbo, former hunting editor of Time Inc.’s Outdoor Life, had to resign after calling assault rifles “terrorist rifles” in a blog posting on the magazine’s website. This raises the question: how subjective can writers really be on blogs?"