The TED2013 speaker lineup has been announced and the selections are surprising and refreshing as always. TED2013 will take place February 25 – March 1 in CA — live-streaming is available with a TED Live membership ($995 for individuals). Until then, take a peek at some of the speakers I’m most looking forward to and […]
The Knight Foundation announced the winners of the first round of its Knight News Challenge — a contest aimed at funding the next generation of news entrepreneurs. This round was aimed at startups that are leveraging existing networks to develop video, mobile and crowdsourced solutions to filtering big data. (Source: GigaOM) Peepol.tv leverages streaming networks to aggregate […]
“Reporters Without Borders takes stock of censorship and infringements of the right to information during the pro-democracy uprisings that began a year ago in the Arab world. In its report “Upheaval in the Arab world: Media as key witnesses and political pawns”, Reporters Without Borders looks at the methods used by the authorities to strangle the flow […]
The Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) is embarking on a campaign it’s calling “$100 for 100 Years” to celebrate and honor the association’s upcoming centennial. Donations will help fund the James Tankard Book Award, Emerging Scholars Research Program and other efforts in media education, research and service TBD. In the honor of full disclosure, […]
[Irwin Oostindie, executive director of the W2: Community Media Arts center] said the idea is not to keep traditional media and independent media separate, as they have a lot learn from each other. “We’re interested in bringing traditional media and online media platforms together,” he said. “We feel that social media can be improved by traditional […]
@niemanlab | Some GREAT lessons learned in Year 1 of a magazine correspondent’s (Jeff Israely) online news startup. 11 in all, but these three are my favorite: ‘Plan A’ will not work Keep the horse before the cart Don’t get sucked into the media industry psychosis
Wow. Check out the new X-Men. Completely different than what I remember >>> @CBR “Marvel Makes Their Universe Astonishing!”
