Jul 31 Watch Social Media Users Express Disappointment with NBC’s Olympics Coverage Social Media Users Express Disappointment with NBC's Olympics Coverage… Continue watching
Jul 27 Gwen’s Take: Bill Raspberry, 1935-2012 I wasn't exactly wet behind the ears when I arrived at The Washington Post in 1984, but it was close. There was a wall of glass offices on the north side of the newsroom. When I was not laboring… Continue reading
Jul 16 Watch Pew Study: More Viewers Choose YouTube for Breaking News The Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism released a study Monday showing that news consumers are increasingly trading traditional media for YouTube. Jeffrey Brown discusses the challenges and opportunities traditional media sources now face with Pew's Tom Rosenstiel… Continue watching
Jul 16 Yahoo! Nabs Google’s Marissa Mayer as Company’s New CEO By Mike Melia Yahoo! has a new leader. Again. Marissa Mayer has been tapped to be the company's next CEO, the fifth person to take the helm of the Internet giant in five years. A longtime Google executive, Mayer had been responsible for… Continue reading
Jul 12 Watch An Election on Facebook: Old Media Enters New World Do "likes" on Facebook translate to votes? Howard Kurtz and Lauren Ashburn of Daily-Download.com examine that issue with Ray Suarez and also explore why traditional news outlets are partnering with social media sites this election year. Continue watching
Jul 10 Watch Russian Blackouts, Neutrality and Trusting Wikipedia Hari interviews Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales on today's blackouts in Russia, trusting crowd-sourced information and attracting more women to the Wikipedia community. Continue watching
Jul 10 Watch 10 Questions with Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales 10 Questions with Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales… Continue watching
Jul 09 10 Questions for Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales By News Desk Updated July 10 | When Wikipedia formally launched on Jan. 15, 2001, creators Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger hoped to create over 100,000 articles. Today, Wikipedia has more than 22 million articles in over 285 languages. In the 11 years… Continue reading
Jun 29 Gwen’s Take: Washington’s 100-Degree Day of Contempt, Constitutionality By Gwen Ifill Photo by Taylor Weidman/The Christian Science Monitor via Getty Images I can say quite honestly that Thursday was among the most dramatic days I've ever seen unfold in Washington. Understanding that I was too young to witness the Kennedy funeral… Continue reading
Jun 28 News Outlets Don’t All Get Ruling Right Journalists run out of the Supreme Court building after receiving the court's decision Thursday. By Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images By David Bauder, AP Television Writer NEW YORK (AP) -- A rush to quickly report the Supreme Court's decision… Continue reading