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Mobile News Apps – Ross Reynolds

As everyone who follows news closely has noticed, the big breaking news story is easily available. If you are on any social network following news outlets or have news hound friends, the bare facts of the major stories (Michael Jackson … Continue reading


Will the web kill advertising?

Wharton Professor Eric Clemons joins us at noon today to talk about his provocative article on why advertising is dying on the web.


The Guardian goes atwitter

The presses fall silent as one of England’s premiere newspapers goes online with 140 characters max.


How to save newspapers: one five letter word


“The current (news) meltdown is just a warm up act.”

2020: What’s Next for News Is Dan Conover’s bold look ahead is the best I’ve seen. One emerging trend he spots is ‘predictive intelligence’. Modern journalism is based on the idea that impartially telling “both sides” of a story is … Continue reading


Media Cloud designed to assist research on news

The Berkman Center just rolled out a tool to track what topics are covered by news outlets. It’s called Media Cloud. There’s a good explanatory video with creator Ethan Zuckerman here. You can type in a term and compare how … Continue reading


Twitter. Hunh?

Twitter is mocked on Daily Show and Colbert Report, adopted by NPR’s Daniel Shorr, and dissed by The Seattle Times Danny Westneat. Monday on The Conversation (Noon, KUOW 94.9), what does Twitter mean to you? Our own Kathy Gill will … Continue reading


Will Obama’s Economic Stimulus to Broadband Help?

This Associated Press story asks if billions are spent to fund broadband to unserved areas will it do any good?  Will new people sign up for broadband (51% say they’re not interested)? Will there be a “network effect” creating new … Continue reading


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