Tim J. McGuire , former Minneapolis Star Tribune editor and now Frank Russell Chair at the
Walter
Cronkite
School of Journalism and Mass Communication at
Arizona
State University, argues that editors need to be in the forefront of the debate on whether newspapers should work cooperatively on developing national website platforms. Citing Tom Mohr’s earlier article, “Winning Online [...]
I just saw this at Gizmodo via CNet’s News.com. It costs a mere $350. I am a biking guy. See my rather dormant Bike the Camino blog. Now for a sweat-proof keyboard.
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I just received this email from Bryan Murley:
We (the writers who populate the Reinventing College Media weblog) are moving! Beginning today all of our content will find a home at here. The content will continue along the same lines, but we will be part of an effort we are calling the Center for Innovation in [...]
It is official, Google to buy YouTube for $1.65 billion. Here is The New York Times story.
Here is an excerpt from the CNN Money story:
During a conference call, Google chief executive officer Eric Schmidt said the YouTube deal would be one of “many investments” that Google planned to make in online video. He added that [...]
As appropriate, bubbling up from the grassroots media sites are the beginnings of warning of what will happen to the promise of social networking when major corporations like Fox — MySpace– and Google — maybe YouTube — take over the major social networking sites. This from COA News, a non-profit online news network:
The reason participatory [...]
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Leonard Witt is the Robert D. Fowler Distinguished Chair in Communication at Kennesaw State University and the chief blogger of PJNet. His academic interests include public and citizen journalism and how to get citizens' voices heard. He has spent most of his professional career as an award-winning journalist.