Tag Archives: News
The Dark Side of Mobile: did Syria use mobile technology to target journalists?
This report is special to Flip the Media by Joshua Cole and was originally posted on Thirdecade. The video below from the New York Times is extraordinarily graphic and I do not recommend watching it with children or at work. The … Continue reading
Pat Summitt Leaves Her Mark on Basketball and Online
Yesterday was a big news day–full of many big stories – the NHL playoffs, the passing of Dick Clark (America Bandstand), and the ongoing Secret Service scandal. But the biggest news in the sporting world was the retirement of Pat … Continue reading
Making The Change: Graduation and Awards to Savage, Starbucks
Today was a joyous day. We graduated our largest cohort of MCDM’ers at a beautiful open-air ceremony. Here’s what I told all those who attended: “To give you a sense of the strong personalities that populate our Master of Communication … Continue reading
Social Media Fuels Egypt’s Largest Protest in Years
Protests in Egypt exploded into violence yesterday as people took to the streets to denounce poor living conditions and the thirty-year reign of President Hosni Mubarak. According to Al Jazeera, Egyptians began organizing protests through Twitter and Facebook on Tuesday … Continue reading
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
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
Good News for News?
Every time that I step into a newsroom, I remember what it was like to live off of that electricity in the air when I was at NBC News. It was the human buzz of stressful inquiry as events incessantly … Continue reading
Online Media Democracy Is Still Under Construction, or Why Engadget Had to Flip the Switch on Comments
After turning off all site comments on Tuesday, AOL-owned Engadget today flipped the comment switch back on, ending a two-day hiatus resulting from its editors seeing too many comments that were “mean, ugly, pointless, and frankly threatening in some situations.” … Continue reading
