studying the media ecosystem
I took ill the end of last week and forgot about the Federal Communications Commission hearing on media consolidation in Oakland, but my colleague, SF Chronicle reporter Joe Garofoli filed a great report that captured both a sense of the event and the background that led up to it. Here’s a snippet:
“The FCC is reviewing [...]
Kudos to the New Yorker for its well-timed piece, “Millions for Millions,” that suggests how success has sown dissension in the field of microfinance. The piece arrived shortly after Muhammad Yunus, founder of the Grameen Bank, was named next recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in using tiny loans to help people [...]
With the Federal Communications Commissions in the midst of considering changes to media ownership rules (and a public hearing on that topic coming to Oakland Friday evening) I wanted to understand what was on Mass Media’s mind. Toward that end I came across an article in Hollywood Reporter that said, in essence, that new media, [...]
Here’s an interesting new thread to track in which jornalist Mark Briggs will lay out reporting tools and tricks in a blog called Journalism 2.0, hosted on the J-Learning site. The latter site provides tutorials on web design and the presentation of stories and information. In his Journalism 2.0 blog it looks like Briggs will [...]
The weekend of November 4th, my wife and I will start a political party — and disband it on the very same day. But by then its work will have be done. We invite a group of friends and neighbors over to our house, and ask them to bring their California voter handbooks and a [...]
I continue to learn from the students taking the feature-writing class I am supposed to be teaching. The other night, for instance, one student was wondering aloud how to gain the trust of a critical source, someone who might be the ideal protagonist for a story. But the subject didn’t trust reporters. “Why not describe [...]
A new citizen media site called Citizenbay.com aims to create local Internet-based news sites with stories written by the viewers, and then voted on (in a digg-like fashion) to choose the best — which will then be paid. In an interview with the blog Tech Address, Citizenbay founder Oleg Tscheltzoff said the site was self-funded [...]
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