March 31st, 2010
On March 24, the Park Center for Independent Media at Ithaca College announced the winner of the second annual “Izzy Award.” Independent journalist and bestselling author Jeremy Scahill is the 2009 award recipient, an honor bestowed for his....
March 30th, 2010
Belen Bogado, a blogger and journalist who covers news about Paraguay, interviewed fellow Paraguayan blogger and journalist Carlos RodrÃguez for Global Voices. RodrÃguez helped develop R.E.S.C.A.T.A.R., a multimedia blog that fills a void left by so....
March 29th, 2010
Diego Vasquez, a staff writer for Media Life, asserts that the mistake many magazines have made in the transition to a digital format was trying to replicate their print or web editions. He cites a study from Smarter Media Sales (SMS) that says that digital....
March 26th, 2010
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) is funding the creation of seven regional centers across the U.S. to increase local reporting. The Local Journalism Centers (LJCs) will each focus on issues of their particular region and the reports will....
March 25th, 2010
In a piece for Gawker, freelance journalist Ravi Somaiya says that blogs are becoming more like traditional newspapers. He writes (emphasis mine):
Now blogs compete aggressively for audience. Politico, Deadline Hollywood and everyone else seeks to break....
March 24th, 2010
The Chicago White Sox have experienced a bit of Twitter-related controversy lately. The baseball team’s upper management already wasn’t too happy when manager Ozzie Guillen started a Twitter account (@OzzieGuillen) last month. Then Oney Guillen,....
March 23rd, 2010
Last week, the Magazine Publishers of America (MPA) launched Mapps, the Magazine App Directory. It is a comprehensive list of mobile apps produced by magazines and media companies.
Mapps includes descriptions and download links for 120 apps on a variety....
March 22nd, 2010
Industry trade group American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME) and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism announced last Thursday the winners of the 2010 National Magazine Awards for Digital Media. The National Magazine Awards have been....
March 19th, 2010
The New York Times is expanding its experiments with hyperlocal content by partnering with FWIX, a service that uses proprietary software to filter and aggregate geographically pinpointed information from blogs, news sites, and social media sites.
Ken....
March 18th, 2010
South by Southwest (SXSW), an annual set of interactive, film, and music festivals and conferences, is happening right now in Austin, Texas. The music portion launched yesterday, with 2,000 bands scheduled to perform over the span of five days. Prior....
