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CNN iReport Superstar Tells All — Maybe Too Much

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

I contacted Grayson Daughters, an Atlanta area user content producer, because I wanted to learn more about her success at getting stuff placed at CNN’s iReport.com.  She is listed as a CNN iReport Superstar. One piece on Georgia politics got more than 10,000 views and got the CNN stamp of approval. What Daughters tells me […]

Stony Brook Dean on Teaching Journalism Literacy

Saturday, June 28th, 2008

Howard Schneider is talking about how he teaches news literacy to all students not just journalism students at Stony Brook. It is excellent presentation and worth watching now as a livestream, but will be archived and worth listening to by anyone interested in the future of journalism.
Here is more about him from the Sharing the News program at […]

Livestreaming: New England News Forum Sharing News

Saturday, June 28th, 2008

I am in Lowell, Mass. for the:
New England News Forum and the law firm of Prince, Lobel, Glovsky & Tye, LLP present a unique, one-day workshop, “Sharing the News: Fresh Approaches to Reaching Students and Training Citizens.” Designed for New England college journalism educators, high-school newspaper advisors and journalism teachers, citizen journalists and bloggers, the […]

Knight to Fund Community Foundations, Media Innovation

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

Knight announces $24 million in challenge grants for community foundations aimed as spurring local media, technology and information needs. Get more background information from a previous video interview I conducted with Eric Newton of the Knight Foundation.
Here is today’s press release in full:
New Knight Initiative Seeks to Address Local Information Needs Engaging Community Foundations
$24 […]

Dismal Outlook for Newspapers Gets Worse

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

I started seriously blogging about the possible demise of newspapers back in 2005, after interviewing Phil Meyer, author of the The Vanishing Newspaper: Saving Journalism in the Information Age. Today the New York Times reports that things are worse than anyone imagined even six months ago.
Here is one of quote, which reflects the […]

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