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Journalism and Digital Education Roundup, May 29, 2012
The best stories across the web on journalism and digital education 1. Only 4% percent of college grads say startups are ideal places to work (Read Write Web) 2. How Twitter can help you land your first job (The Buttry Diary) 3. ...
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Daily Must Reads, May 29, 2012
The best stories across the web on media and technology, curated by Lily Leung 1. Does it make sense for Facebook to create its own phone? (GigaOm) 2. Anthony Bourdain to join CNN (CNN) 3. Kara Swisher talks about reporting ...
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Citizens Get Conflicting Messages About Their Right to Record
This month, federal agencies and local officials sent two powerful but conflicting messages to the American public about our right to record. On May 14, the Justice Department submitted a letter to the Baltimore Police Department provid...
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Poll: How Much Have You Given to Crowdfunding Projects?
We've all heard the heart-warming stories of inventors and creators who couldn't get their ideas funded, and then turned to crowdfunding sites such as Kickstarter or IndieGoGo to raise the money they needed. And then there are the other-...
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Daily Must Reads, May 25, 2012
The best stories across the web on media and technology, curated by Lily Leung 1. Will readers keep reading The Times-Picayune after it kills its print version? (Poynter) 2. Big networks sue over feature that lets you skip TV ads (H...
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Mediatwits #50: Facebook Face-Plant; Craig Newmark + Poynter; Crowdfunding Bible
Welcome to the 50th episode of the Mediatwits podcast, with Mark Glaser and Rafat Ali as co-hosts. The joy of the Facebook IPO was quickly replaced with disdain as the stock nosedived and lawsuits ensued. We run down the headlines, inc...
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E-books and Self-Publishing Roundup, May 24, 2012
The best stories of the week from across the web on e-books and self-publishing 1. Apple denies price-fixing charges in U.S. e-book lawsuit (Reuters) 2. Amazon bans spam at Kindle Store (PaidContent) 3. Non-profit launches campai...
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Daily Must Reads, May 24, 2012
The best stories across the web on media and technology, curated by Lily Leung 1. Times-Picayune to end daily publication, ramp up web presence (Forbes) 2. How the Financial Times is doing with its mobile web app (PaidContent) 3....
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The Media Consortium: Inside Our May Day Collaboration
On May 1, more than 30 independent media outlets collaborated to produce live national coverage of May Day protests. Why did these news organizations choose to collaborate -- and why on May Day? The answer has everything to do with the i...
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Why We Killed Our College Daily Paper for a More Digital Future
We're about to close the book on the Oregon Daily Emerald. After 92 years, the University of Oregon's newspaper will end its run as a Monday-to-Friday operation in June. Yes, it's the end of an era, and we're sad about that. But it's a...
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How Journalism Education Can, and Should, Blow Up the System
The following is the text from a speech given by Eric Newton, the senior adviser to the president at the Knight Foundation, earlier this month at a national conference of journalism educators at Middle Tennessee State University. The tex...
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Daily Must Reads, May 23, 2012
The best stories across the web on media and technology, curated by Mark Glaser 1. Facebook, banks sued over pre-IPO analyst calls (Reuters) 2. Can Motorola's cloud-based DVR kick start TV everywhere? (PaidContent) 3....
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In the Philippines, a Brash Brand of Journalism Can Be Fatal
Two and a half years to the day since the world's worst-ever single mass killing of journalists took place in the southern Philippines, many suspects remain at large, the trial is stalled, and victim's families are being harassed and int...
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Daily Must Reads, May 22, 2012
The best stories across the web on media and technology, curated by Mark Glaser 1. Likely next-generation iPhone with 3.9-inch display (9to5Mac) 2. Arrington: Google could have had Twitter for $5 billion (Busines...
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Journalism and Digital Education Roundup, May 22, 2012
The best stories across the web on journalism and digital education 1. Schools and students clash over technology in the classroom (MindShift) 2. Why misspelled names are so common & what journalists are doing to prevent them (P...
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Magpile Brings Social Sharing to Print Magazine Enthusiasts
Reading a print magazine doesn't have to be a lonely experience anymore. Magpile, a new social site for magazine lovers, offers enthusiastic readers a place to share their favorite magazines and discuss them online. Founder and print ma...
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Daily Must Reads, May 21, 2012
The best stories across the web on media and technology, curated by Mark Glaser. 1. Facebook sinks as Nasdaq scrambles to square trades (Reuters) 2. Nasdaq CEO blames software for delayed Facebook IPO trading (...
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OWNI, El Watan Collaborate to Tell Whole Story of French-Algerian War
When it comes to the French-Algerian war, which eventually led to Algeria gaining its independence from France, and arguably caused the collapse of the French Fourth Republic, there's the official story and there's what really happened. ...
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Daily Must Reads, May 18, 2012
The best stories across the web on media and technology, curated by Lily Leung. 1. Thanks to IPO, Zuckerberg is now wealthier than Google founders (Bloomberg) 2. Why Warren Buffett is snapping up newspapers (PaidContent) 3. How F...
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Mediatwits #49: Facebook IPO Mania; Internet Week; 16th Webby Awards
Welcome to the 49th episode of the Mediatwits podcast, with Mark Glaser and Dorian Benkoil as co-hosts. Today is the day for the Facebook IPO, so we've got it covered like a wet blanket. Special guests Debra Aho Williamson of eMarketer a...
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Poll: What Do You Think About the Facebook IPO?
Now we have a date (May 18) and a price range ($28 to $35 per share) for what could be the biggest initial public offering in the history of tech stocks: Facebook. The company has grown by leaps and bounds since it was born in Mark Zucke...
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E-books and Self-Publishing Roundup, May 17, 2012
The best stories of the week from across the web on e-books and self-publishing 1. E-book pricing lawsuit moves ahead (via NYT) 2. Authors have ramped up writing pace to meet feverish e-book demand (Christian Science Monitor) 3. ...
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Daily Must Reads, May 17, 2012
The best stories across the web on media and technology, curated by Lily Leung. 1. Want to buy Facebook shares now? You may be too late (Reuters) 2. 15 key stats on Facebook's analytics (Experian) 3. Pinterest snags big-time inve...
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Can Web-Only Original Programming Finally Stick?
The days of skateboarding dogs holding sway on the web may be numbered. Technology companies and advertisers are professing their belief in the value of professionally produced original content. Portals and platforms like YouTube, AOL, ...
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Daily Must Reads, March 16, 2012
The best stories across the web on media and technology, curated by Lily Leung. 1. E-book pricing lawsuit moves ahead (NYT) 2. General Motors plans to pull the plug on its Facebook ads (WSJ) 3. Despite its huge population, Google...
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Could Facebook, Twitter Be Charged Under Thailand's Computer Crime Act?
On June 3 of last year, MediaShift published the article "Crisis in Thailand Leads to Net Crackdown, Censorship" on the harassment journalists and netizens faced as political clashes arose in the country. Many of the comments in a long...
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How Design Links Storytelling to Social Enterprise
That a story can give voice to a cause and incite a social movement is an old concept. But at a recent gathering of more than 100 documentary filmmakers, social entrepreneurs and designers, the real question was not whether stories can ...
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Journalism and Digital Education Roundup, May 15, 2012
The best stories across the web on journalism and digital education 1. Students with computer science degrees are in high demand this year (Bloomberg) 2. Libraries in this county are buying, not leasing, e-books (Boing Boing) 3. ...
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Daily Must Reads, May 15, 2012
The best stories across the web on media and technology, curated by Lily Leung. 1. Former head of Murdoch U.K. newspaper empire faces charges in hacking scandal (NYT) 2. Facebook bumps up its share price (Washington Post) 3. Shou...
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Why Now Is the Time for Media Innovation in Africa
In Africa, where mobile news and digital innovation are growing but startup capital is too often scarce, innovators have a unique opportunity to help reinvent media: the African News Innovation Challenge. The newly launched contest, mod...
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Infographic: Moms Hold Big Influence Online
This post and infographic originally appeared on the Nielsen blog Nielsen Wire here. It is reused here with permission. Moms are often at the center of their family's offline life, so it's little surprise that they're also at the center...
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Daily Must Reads, May 14, 2012
The best stories across the web on media and technology, curated by Lily Leung. 1. Following resume snafu, Yahoo CEO to step down (AllThingsD) 2. Google's head of news compares newspapers to Yahoo (GigaOm) 3. A collection of how-...
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The First Amendment Should Protect Everyone's Right to Record
Since September, police have arrested dozens of journalists and activists around the country for the "crime" of trying to document political protests in public spaces. People using smartphones and mobile devices are changing the way we r...
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Poll: What's Your Philosophy on Paying for Online Content?
Pay walls, metered walls, subscriptions, micro-payments. There are so many ways that online publishers are considering charging visitors for content. While most content online was free in the old days of the web, more publications are fo...
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Daily Must Reads, May 11, 2012
The best stories across the web on media and technology, curated by Lily Leung. 1. Google wins 763 domain names containing the word 'google' (The Next Web) 2. Twitter buys tech, talent of personalized email marketing service (TechCr...
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The Costs and Benefits of Collaboration
Carrie Lozano nailed a real need in her No. 1 takeaway from last month's "collaboration marathon" of back-to-back conferences in Berkeley, Calif. "We need to come up with useful cost-benefit analyses of collaboration," she wrote on Colla...
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Mediatwits #48: Yahoo CEO Under Fire; Pros and Cons of Metered Pay Walls
Welcome to the 48th episode of the Mediatwits podcast, with Mark Glaser and the Rafat Ali as co-hosts. On this show, we turn to the chaotic soap opera that continues at Yahoo, once an Internet darling on its umpteenth remake. Its new CEO...
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Daily Must Reads, May 10, 2012
The best stories across the web on media and technology, curated by Lily Leung. 1. How much is past hacking costing News Corp now? (PaidContent) 2. Facebook launches app store (VentureBeat) 3. The best time to post links on certa...
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E-books and Self-Publishing Roundup, May 10, 2012
The best stories of the week from across the web on e-books and self-publishing 1. Why kids' e-book sales are surging (PaidContent) 2. What happens to digital books when we die? (NYT) 3. Libraries in this county are buying, not l...
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Will Online Video Coverage of U.S. Election Eat into Text-Based Stories?
As I've read up online about the 2012 campaign news in recent months, I've noticed I'm doing a lot less, well, reading. I've checked around a bit and confirmed that websites that traditionally focus on text-based journalism -- like Polit...
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Daily Must Reads, May 9, 2012
The best stories across the web on media and technology, curated by Lily Leung. 1. Twitter takes a stand against warrant-less request for protester's data (Forbes) 2. People turn to mobile for "just-in-time" information, Pew finds (...
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The Digital Age and the Changing Face of International Media Development
Search for the term "international media development" and you won't find many university departments or publications. Nonetheless, the field is over 50 years old and has exerted a major influence on many regions of the world, accounting ...
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Journalism and Digital Education Roundup, May 8, 2012
The best stories across the web on journalism and digital education 1. Michigan House OKs the expansion of cyber charters (Detroit Free Press) 2. DC parents want schools to invest in e-book collections, e-readers (WaPo) 3. Want t...
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Daily Must Reads, May 8, 2012
The best stories across the web on media and technology, curated by Lily Leung. 1. Facebook may be behind the decline of news-reader apps (TechCrunch) 2. Will social media help George Zimmerman in the Trayvon Martin case? (Poynter) ...
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Public Insight Network: How the Symphony of Collaboration Will Play Out
Nearly 10 years ago, the Public Insight Network began as an experiment in radically improving journalism by harnessing the intelligence and expertise of the audience. We started simply, at MPR News, but soon began to open up the network ...
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An iTunes Playlist for Magazine Articles? Zinio Thinks Outside the Brand
How many ways can you sell magazine content? In the rapidly changing world of digital magazines, we've seen all kinds of variations: multimedia apps, digital replicas, individual stories, single issues, subscriptions, and even the all-y...
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Daily Must Reads, May 7, 2012
The best stories across the web on media and technology, curated by Lily Leung. 1. Warren Buffett says he may buy more newspapers (Telegraph) 2. Revenue at Washington Post's newspaper division down 8 percent from last year (Poynter)...
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Journalists' Biggest Pet Peeves About PR -- And Vice Versa
When journalists were asked to offer up their biggest PR pet peeves this week, it sparked a spirited Twitter conversation. But then, PR folks got their turn, and what ensued sheds light on both of the industries, how they work together, ...
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Poll: What Do You Think About the Facebook IPO?
Now we have a date (May 18) and a price range ($28 to $35 per share) for what could be the biggest initial public offering in the history of tech stocks: Facebook. The company has grown by leaps and bounds since it was born in Mark Zucke...
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Daily Must Reads, May 4, 2012
The best stories across the web on media and technology, curated by Lily Leung. 1. Facebook IPO to start trading May 18 (AllFacebook) 2. LinkedIn to buy SlideShare for $119 million in cash and stock (The Next Web) 3. Facebook wil...
