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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 […]

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 […]

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 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 […]

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 […]