studying the media ecosystem
What would such a toolkit contain?
My friend and occasional collaborator, Tim Bishop, spotted a reference to a forthcoming journalism toolkit that sounds, at least, like a project that he and I had proposed about a year ago in the first Knight 21st Century News Challenge. We didn’t get the grant, however, and left the idea undone.
So [...]
Burmese protesters, left, get shot, Danes, right, get tear-gassed. Big difference.
A few weeks ago world attention was briefly fixed on Burma, or Myanmar as it called by the military brutes who shot uncounted numbers of protestors demanding a glimmer of freedom. Last week, young Danes tried to occupy a building in Copenhagen that they wanted to turn into a youth center. Police who [...]
Bob Cauthorn understands that the complexity of the toolkit is a barrier to adoption; plans explanations and simplifications.
In a blog entry last week I took a quick look last week at CityTools, a new journalism authoring system, and ended up asking more questions than I answered. That entry elicited a call from Bob Cauthorn who said he [...]
”To peel back newspapers to their essential core , , , creating marketplaces”
Bob Cauthorn is a guy with a history in newspapering, opinionated and abrasive (here’s a taste) – and I say this having worked with Bob and indeed having sparred with Bob, only to come away impressed by his passion, intelligence and committment to what was once called interactive journalism but is now social [...]
Philip Merrill School of Journalism at University of Maryland
The University of Maryland’s J-Lab sent out its latest project update including a reminder about the Knight Citizen News Network, a great and evolving online catalog of tips, tricks and tools for creating and managing local news sites.
Included was a calculator that allows anyone to assess “the likelihood that a 9th grader will complete high school on time.” The [...]
Graphic from the Information Literacy Project at Beloit College in Wisconson. Details below.
Poynter Institute commentator Steve Klein hits the nail on the head when he writes:
“Journalism programs should be in the business of media literacy, not just training journalists. That should be a campus-wide goal that engages majors from every department.”
Klein, a journalism professor at George Mason University, suggested this effort would help college [...]
It’s consolidation time in online self-publishing as AuthorHouse, one of the largest online self-publishing firms takes out iUniverse, based in Lincoln, Neb., for an undisclosed sum reports Paid Content, which goes on to say:
“The two are competing against competitors as Amazon.com and Lulu.com. Amazon moved into self-publishing in April 2005 by acquiring BookSurge, and last month its CreateSpace unit launched [...]
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