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The new Pew Internet & American Life Project report says:
“… it is clear that, for a sizable and influential group of broadband users, the internet is a prime news source.”
But I did not have to read this report to truly understand what broadband is all about. That happened this past weekend. My wife […]

This from the BBC:
Dan Gillmor, author of We the Media, responds to e-mails from readers about the first of his columns on how technology has revolutionised public participation in the media.
In one exchange, one writer asks why should he give his content away for free. Dan answers; then I have my own thoughts […]

I have been posting about the need to do some serious open-source brainstorming to reinvent journalism. Philadelphia is doing just that this Saturday, March 27, 2006. This from Daniel Rubin, reporter and blogger at the Philadelphia Inquirer, at his blog:
…Unconference that’s taking place Saturday at Penn’s Annenberg School of Communications, where participants will […]

Below is my fourth installment at PressThink, calling for action to reinvent journalism. I wrote:
I have this vivid memory of an old Quaker I knew, who when things had to get done, would hold out his arms, look at his palms and say, “If not these hands, then whose?”

Meaning if tough work had to […]

So what does Philip R. Goldsmith, an old friend and a Philadelphia community leader, think about McClatchy’s decision on dumping the Inquirer and Daily News? His first thought in this Leonard Witt IM Interview is: ” If the McClatchy organization had sent some reporters here, it may have come up with a different conclusion.”
Phil […]