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FattyGate: Kevin Smith and Southwest Airlines
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) while he was being ejected from a Southwest flight because of his girth: Dear @SouthwestAir […]
Online Journalism Awards Display at Newseum
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 Online Journalism Awards (OJAs), which are given out by the ONA, will be the focus of […]
Social Media at the 2010 Winter Olympics
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 nearly as popular then as it is now. Other social networking sites have only gotten […]
When Rumors Become News: NY Gov. David Paterson
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 might even result in his resignation. It was all fueled by the speed […]
On the Future of Journalism
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 NextUp NYC Event during Social Media Week. Similar to Ryan Sholin’s advice that we […]
AllVoices Wrangling to Be Top Citizen Journalism Site
AllVoices, a news aggregation site that focuses on citizen journalism, recently received a $3 million cash infusion from VantagePoint Partners. The two-year-old startup now has total funding of $9 million. The site was co-founded by CEO Amra Tareen, who realized the value of citizen journalism in 2005 when she was an aid worker after the […]
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