Archive for February, 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 ... Read more.

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 ... Read more.

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 ... Read more.

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 ... Read more.

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 ... Read more.

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 ... Read more.

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 ... Read more.

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 ... Read more.

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 ... Read more.

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 ... Read more.