December 30th, 2009
A reporting blunder from gossip website TMZ highlights just how important it is for news organizations to check, recheck and verify their sources — before they go live with a report.
On Monday, December 28th, TMZ released a “never-before published”....
December 29th, 2009
For the past six months, The Miami Herald and a handful of South Florida community news publishers have been working on a new online approach to covering local news for the South Florida area, according to a report from the paper’s Executive Editor....
December 24th, 2009
In the spirit of the season, I wanted to write briefly about a new nonprofit I recently learned about, called Bloganthropy, which encourages people to support a good cause and spread the word about it through their social networks.
According to its website: ”Bloganthropy....
December 22nd, 2009
Earlier this month, the research and development branch of the U.S. Department of Defense, known as DARPA, launched the Network Challenge, a competition that demonstrates the value of social networks as “highly effective tools for rapidly gathering....
December 21st, 2009
For the first time in 23 years, Pepsi won’t be advertising any of its beverage brands in the 2010 Super Bowl, according to The Wall Street Journal reporter Suzanne Vranica. Pepsi instead will shift advertising dollars to support a cause-marketing....
December 18th, 2009
According to the Associated Press, The New York Times has just laid off another 18 newsroom employees. This year will be the second straight year the company has cut 100 employees from its newsroom.
Obviously it’s a tough time to be in the newspaper....
December 17th, 2009
According to a study from the Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project, The New News Audience: Twelve Ways Consumers Have Changed in The Digital Age, there has been an immense shift in how people get their news.
Question: Where do....
December 16th, 2009
In light of my post yesterday, Journalistic Integrity In A Real-Time, Social Media News World, I started researching online to see if there were any tools or resources available that might address this issue. I came across YouTube’s Reporters’....
December 15th, 2009
Heidi Sinclair, CEO of Heidi Sinclair & Co. and blogger for The Huffington Post, provided an interesting and heartfelt editorial on the future of journalism, “A Case for Journalism in a Post-Newspaper World From the Mother of a Would-Be Journalist.”
Sinclair....
December 14th, 2009
The Boston Public Health Commission, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health and the Center for Disease Control (CDC) have been using social media to provide swine flu (H1N1) updates, geared mainly toward young people who “are particularly....
