George Williams
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...
Rachelle Matherne
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:...
Tatyana Meshcheryakova
Loki, one of our bloggers at SixEstate, passed along an article by AOL editor Lori Fradkin, “What It’s Really Like To Be A Copy Editor.” It resonated with me big time. Fradkin writes, When I left to take a non-copyediting position at another company,...
Rachelle Matherne
With increasing frequency, larger media outlets are taking chances on new ways of acquiring content. The NYC Beat, a “citizen journalism music blog” from The Huffington Post, is searching for new writers in the New York City area: In an effort to grow our...
Rachelle Matherne
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 how its audience reads and responds to it. Paul Briand, who covers issues affecting the Baby...
