February 26th, 2010
As one of the 2008 Knight News Challenge grant recipients, Alexander Zolotarev blogs about his winning idea — the Sochi Olympics Project — on PBS’s MediaShift Idea Lab blog. In a recent post, Zolotarev talks about some of the ways he....
February 25th, 2010
With traditional journalism jobs dwindling, the publishing industry is racing to adapt to new technologies that affect how the news is collected and distributed, as well as how its audience reads and responds to it. Paul Briand, who covers issues affecting....
February 23rd, 2010
The Miami Herald announced plans this weekend to discontinue a voluntary payment program for its online content. After evaluating response to the program, which started this past December, the newspaper had decided to end it. No monetary figures regarding....
February 22nd, 2010
NBC is catching a lot of flak from viewers about its decision to show the highlights of the 2010 Winter Olympics during primetime rather than airing each competition event as it happens. NBC has also decided to drastically reduce the amount of live streaming....
February 19th, 2010
The George Polk Awards, one of the most prestigious acknowledgements in journalism, has recognized an anonymous contributor for the first time. This year also marks the first time that the awards have been presented in a videography category. The unknown....
February 18th, 2010
Kevin Smith caused quite a stir this weekend after tweeting about a bad experience he’s had with Southwest Airlines (SWA). The director, famous for films like Clerks and Mallrats, vented on his Twitter account to his 1.6 million followers (@ThatKevinSmith)....
February 17th, 2010
The Online News Association (ONA), a membership organization for digital journalists, is part of a new exhibit featured in the Digital News Gallery of the Newseum, a 250,000-square-foot interactive museum of news in Washington, D.C.
Winners of the 2009....
February 15th, 2010
The 2010 Winter Olympics officially opened in Vancouver this past Friday, and this marks the first Olympic Games at the height of the Twitter craze. Sure, Twitter was also around during the 2008 Summer Olympics, but the microblogging service wasn’t....
February 12th, 2010
In a strange series of events, rumors about a rumor made headlines during the past few days. Speculation spread about a story The New York Times was possibly working on that could be damaging to New York Governor David Paterson’s reputation, and....
February 11th, 2010
Sree Sreenivasan, dean of the Journalism School at Columbia University, and one of his graduate students, Vadim Lavrusik, created a list of social media skills needed by future journalists. Together, they presented the list in slide show format at a Mashable....
