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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, including the New Orleans Times-Picayune and Oregon Daily Emerald killing daily print editions for thrice- and twice-weekly editions, respectively.... more »
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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-worldly stories like the Pebble smart watch that raised millions on Kickstarter. While you might kick in some money for a promising... more »
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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 (Hollywood Reporter) 3. Google removes 250,000 search links every week over copyright concerns (GigaOm) 4. Facebook launches 'Instagram-style' camera app...
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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 campaign to send 1 million e-books to Africa (Mashable) 4. Esquire to enter the e-book market with men's fiction (NYT) 5. What people are reading...
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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. The New Yorker to serialize a short story on Twitter, starting tonight (New York Observer) 4. Proposed legislation in New York...
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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 also the start of a new era, the digital one. Next fall, we will replace our traditional...
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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 insufficiency of our current mass media to cover this kind of event. May Day is International Worker's Day and,...
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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 text has been edited for length. You can read the entire version here. In 2005, two of America's largest foundations created the...
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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. Why newspapers need to lose the 'view from nowhere' (GigaOm) 4. Voice of San Diego adds monthly print magazine (FishbowlLA) 5. In wake of layoffs, a 4-step plan for patch success (Street Fight) 6. Court dismisses one complaint...
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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 intimidated. MANILA -- Most days, Philippine presidential spokesman Edwin Lacierda does a White House-style briefing with Manila's press corps, spinning the...
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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 (Business Insider) 3. Bright House, Cablevision, Comcast, Cox, TWC team on 'Cable WiFi' (Multichannel News) 4. Time Warner Cable head sides with TV networks over ad-erasing technology (NYT / Media Decoder) 5. Tumblr's revenue model is all...
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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 (Poynter) 3. Report: Broadband access for schools must be 'ubiquitous' and 'robust' to keep up with demands (PCWorld) 4. Can better data keep...
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