HuffPo’s “Citizen Journalism” Under Fire

Arianna Huffington is on a mission to expand citizen journalism, particularly during the 2012 presidential campaign, with AOL’s upcoming acquisition of The Huffington Post. “We will have thousands and thousands of people covering the election. Covering the...

News & Ad Growth: Local, Local, Local!

I recently cited a readership survey from the National Newspaper Association (NNA) that found readership for local print newspapers remaining steady. Mark Lecesse, a journalism professor at Emerson College and blogger for The Boston Globe, reports on the...

Yahoo’s Bloodbath Is Making Flickr Users Nervous

I have over 26,000 photos stored online using the Flickr photo-sharing service. Granted, I am a power user, but there is an amazing array of people who also have most or all of their images on the service’s site. After all, it is the most social and functional...

Harrisburg University’s Social Media Ban: Is It Really a Ban?

Harrisburg University of Science and Technology is getting a lot of press due to its planned experiment of banning social media from campus for a week. I’m curious as to whether the ban will be at all effective. One decade into the 21st century, and connectivity...

Launching: Argo Project + Other Hyperlocal Sites

NPR and 14 of its largest member stations launched the Argo Project on September 8 in order “to strengthen the role public media play in local journalism.” Joel Sucherman, program director of Project Argo, describes the network, which consists of 12 blogs:...
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