In July Jay Rosen’s pro-am project Assignment Zero will be turned into a news package by Wired.com. At the same time he is joining forces with the Huffington Post to create a pro-am presidential election coverage via the Off the Bus project.
Late last year he released an 80-minute video produced by Colin Rhinesmith.at the [...]
Finland is tiny and it has to figure out how to compete with giant countries that have many more resources to produce the likes of Google and other primary new technologies. The answer, according to a research paper Innovation, Journalism and the Future: Final report of the research project Innovation Journalism in Finland, is to [...]
This from a Bear Stearns report:
USER GENERATED CONTENT (UGS) NOT LIKELY A FAD:
Text-based UGC (e.g., blogs/social networks) already accounts for at least 13% of Internet traffic and continues to grow unabated. Also, our online video survey finds that UGC is the No. 1 and No. 2 most popular content category among men aged 18-34 and [...]
This from Advertising Age:
A whopping 96% of online tweens and teens connect to a social network at least once a week, according to a study and white paper being released today from Alloy Media & Marketing, a youth-oriented marketing firm. And nearly half engaged with a brand in the space in the past month.
According to [...]
PaidContent.org is slowing releasing videos of its The Economics of Social Media (EconSM) conference held back in April. Here is the Social Media & News video. PaidContent.org writes::
The news media panel: Vivian Schiller, SVP and GM, NYTimes.com; Rich Skrenta, founder and CEO, Topix.net; Ken Stern, CEO, NPR; and WSJ/AllThingsD’s Kara Swisher talked to moderator Tad [...]
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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.