Tag Archives: Journalism
Flip the Media Goes to SXSW Interactive
Twitter: #FTMSXSW, @flipthemedia, #SXSWSea, #MCDM, #mobilepart Flip the Media is heading off to Austin, Texas this week for the SXSW interactive festival and oh… what a trip it’s shapin’ up to be. Six students from the MCDM program are … Continue reading
Penny LeGate: A Repurposed Journalist’s Wildest Dreams
Penny LeGate’s Tips for becoming a Re-purposed Journalist: 1. Find something you’re really passionate about. 2. Be willing to work really hard – for free. 3. Find a way to insert yourself into a group of like-minded people. Seattle’s Penny … Continue reading
The Elephant in the Room: Monetization
A few months ago, I was collaborating new media models with both journalists and developers at a Knight-Mozilla News Challenge event in Seattle called hacks/hackers. About halfway through our brainstorm, a brave Seattle Times journalist spoke up and asked: “But … Continue reading
The New Face of Nonprofit Journalism Isn’t Pretty
The nonprofit journalism organization I work for, the Common Language Project, now has some unexpected company. The New York Times reported Friday that the IRS has granted nonprofit tax-exempt status to James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas. You might remember O’Keefe as … Continue reading
Niche apps: A future for newspapers?
The Seattle Times has a couple of niche sports apps on the market right now and both are doing very well. Is this a future here for newspapers? There’s certainly money to be made. Continue reading
Smoke on the (social media) Water
You gotta love Russian President Dimitry Medvedev (or maybe not!). He’s the world’s most powerful Deep Purple fan. And it seems as if he updates his own Twitter account — at least the Russian-language version. Of course, it’s easy to … Continue reading
In the ‘Post-Digital World,’ Newspapers are Actually Hip
After new media turned the old-media world upside down, a couple of digital hipsters tilted their heads and gave analog a second look. Ben Terrett and Russell Davies, of the European design firm Really Interesting Group (RIG), spoke this month … Continue reading
Re-imagining the Future of Journalism
A diverse group of more than 200 journalists, entrepreneurs, techies, nonprofit organizers, artists, activists and others gathered last week at UW with the grand mission of re-imagining the news ecology of the Pacific Northwest. This Journalism That Matters “unconference” focused … Continue reading
