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Archive for June, 2008

Guardian Hosts New Media Stars on Journalism’s Future

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008

The Guardian provides a wealth of stories, videos and podcasts from its Future of Journalism symposium.
Here is a quote from Adrian Holovaty, renowned journalism web developer:
“Journalism is broken,” he said – not because of citizen reporters or matters of privacy, but because journalists collect so much information and then don’t exploit it, while Google does.
There’s [...]

Tow Foundation to Give Millions to CUNY, Columbia

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008

This from Crain’s New York Business.com:
The Tow Foundation will give $3 million to the City University of New York’s Graduate School of Journalism and $5 million to the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
The City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism are expected to announce [...]

Making PBS a National News Powerhouse

Friday, June 20th, 2008

Today I just finished hanging around at the WETA News Academy 2008 in Washington, D.C. I was there as a presenter and observer because I fully believe that PBS is the place for my Representative Journalism concept to take hold. So like Johnny Appleseed, I am going everywhere planting the seeds.
In addition, we are now aiming to have a Representative Journalist [...]

Pew: Obama Has Internet Edge Among Youth

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

 Pew Internet & American Life Project releases interesting findings about how the public is using the Internet and mobile devices in this Presidential election year — and Barack Obama has an advantage. According the report’s press release:  
A record-breaking 46% of Americans have used the internet, email or cell phone text messaging to get news [...]

Brokaw: News Media in Second Big Bang

Monday, June 16th, 2008

The New Yorker has an in-depth profile on how Keith Olbermann at MSNBC is changing TV news, but here is my favorite part: Tom Brokaw, anchor of NBC’s “Nightly News,”
calls this moment in the news media “the second big bang.” “We are creating a new universe, and it has all kinds of new laws and science [...]

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