Tatyana Meshcheryakova
News hunters and gatherers must evolve just like everyone else in the publishing industry that’s been cutting corners at the expense of publishing good journalism. While, ideally, producing and delivering news well shouldn’t depend on the platform being...
Rachelle Matherne
With the upcoming U.S. presidential election in November, AOL Huffington Post Media Group has announced the relaunch of its citizen journalism initiative, OffTheBus. The project, designed to be non-partisan, was initially launched by The Huffington Post in 2008 to...
George Williams
The social space has become turbulent over the past few days. Search giant Google has debuted its new social suite, Google+ (Plus), and Facebook has launched a whole new layer of easy-access video chat enabled by its partnership with Skype. Web professionals and SEO...
Rachelle Matherne
Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism (PEJ) published a new study on May 9 entitled “Navigating News Online.” For the study, the nonpartisan “fact tank” looked at audience statistics from the Nielsen Company, then...
Rachelle Matherne
In recent months, we’ve seen the development of sites and services devoted to crowdsourced copyediting, like Soylent, and to crowd-sourced fact-checking, like MediaBugs. Sometimes you don’t need fancy software or specialized Web services for the crowd to...
