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New Business Models for News
Knight Foundation Blog —
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Jose Zamora is a Journalism Program Associate at Knight Foundation Local media is the focus of the journalism conference circuit. Estimates claim $100 billion in local-ad revenue could support local news and information projects, if it could only be successfully tapped. This follows the Knight Commission for ...1 day ago -
Knight international fellowships in Malaysia and Panama
The Pulse —
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If youre looking to improve the quality and free flow of news in the public interest around the world, check out the Knight International Journalism Fellowships program. Fellowship openings include: • Malaysia - Project focus: Integrate a citizen journalist network into a digital newsroom to create new Web ...3 days ago -
NewBizNews Conference Follow-up
News Innovation —
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Thanks to everyone who participated in the New Business Models for (Local) News Conference and HyperCamp on Wednesday, November 11. A lot of ground was covered in the numerous panels and we’ll keep the discussion going here on newsinnovation.com with upcoming posts and video clips. Shout out to Ted Mann of ...3 days ago -
Advice for German media
News Innovation —
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I have an op-ed in today’s Welt Kompakt newspaper in Germany giving my advice to a German mediasphere that I see becoming more protectionist. It’s not online (ironically) but so you can see the play, a PDF of it is here and here . This is my original English text: * * * At the Müncher Medientage, I spoke ...3 days ago -
OTIs Newest Staffer: New America Foundation Announces Its First Knight Media Policy Fellow.
saschameinrath.com —
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Heres the latest from the most recent expansion of Team OTI. Im really looking forward to working with Tom -- hes going to be a fantastic addition to the Open Technology Initiative. New America Foundation Announces Its First Knight Media Policy Fellow November 12, 2009 The New America Foundation today announced ...4 days ago -
The balance shifts
News Innovation —
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At yesterday’s New Business Models for (Local) News summit at CUNY , I ran what I called a reverse panel with big media folks – NY Times, Washington Post, Gannett, Star-Ledger, Impremedia, Politico – sitting up front but ordered to listen to the wishes and needs of the people in the room. I threatened to ...4 days ago -
Livestream: NewBiz Conference
News Innovation —
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Our third annual summit on the future of news is getting started. Today it’s all about local. We’ll be tweeting all day, too. Hit us up with questions and comments, the hashtag is #newbiz. Conference details and schedule are here . UPDATE: For those of you who are wondering, here is a link to the models that ...5 days ago -
Tomorrow, watch "Sugar Babies" highly critical of Fanjul farming interests in the Domincan Republic: the film that was banned in Miami! by gimleteye
EYE ON MIAMI —
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They banned the film from the Miami International Film Festival and, oddly, the showing of "Sugar Babies" tomorrow night at the University of Miami is not even listed on the Bill Cosford Film Center website. It could be the result of UM officials fearing the influence of Fanjul family sugar interests: Alfie Fanjul is ...5 days ago -
NewBizNews Conference Schedule: 11/11/09
News Innovation —
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Take a look at the latest lineup for tomorrow’s New Business Models for (Local) News Conference and HyperCamp.6 days ago -
Texas Tribune: Looking for its own brand of news
Knight Foundation Blog —
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From Marly Falcon, Knight Foundation contributing blogger: When the Fort Hood shootings were reported last week, The Texas Tribune stood back while other publications rushed to the scene. The New York Times explained that it wasn’t that the incident lacked interest to the journalists at the new web ...1 week ago -
It’s called Computational Journalism
Knight Foundation Blog —
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Never mind the big words. “Computational journalism” is all about using modern tools to do news in the public interest. The “computation” part refers to the use of computers to create, understand and display the news. Sarah Cohen is a Knight journalism chair focused on this new form of watchdog reporting. ...1 week ago -
Letter of Inquiry * John & James Knight Foundation
BDPA Foundation —
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BDPA Education and Technology Foundation ( BETF ) partnered with BDPA Charlotte chapter to submit a letter of inquiry to the Knight Foundation . We asked them to fund $5,000 for the chapters annual Student IT Education & Scholar ship ( SITES ) program. As a national foundation with local roots, ...1 week ago -
Tough love for news media
News Innovation —
Authority: 415
Here’s video version of the talk I keynote talk I linked below for the Munich Media Days conference a week ago. I gave them tough love, saying I was concerned about the protectionist talk I’ve heard from Germany media, not unlike one what can here in the U.S. and elsewhere. I also talked about the New Business ...1 week ago -
Fridays are for Friends & Family 11.06.09
Moving at the Speed of God —
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Welcome to another week-ending edition of FFF! This week has been a flurry of activity as we finalize plans for our organization’s Annual Meeting, which begins here in Towson, Maryland, on Sunday. You can read about it here ; in addition, you can register for several events by going to this page . I hope to see ...1 week ago -
Kicking Off the Grant Process With Monitoring and Evaluation
MediaShift Idea Lab —
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We at the Jefferson Institute began our experience as a 2009 Knight News Challenge winner with one of the more exciting and misunderstood elements of the grant cycle: monitoring and evaluation (M&E). When done properly, M&E begins with the grantee setting out clearly the objectives of the grant, the ...1 week ago -
Getting Better at Design and Crisis Mapping
The Ushahidi Blog —
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I’m really ( REALLY ) excited today. Today I get to announce that two amazing individuals who have been long-time Ushahidi community members are joining the team to help with areas that we have a great need for their expertise in. First though, a big thank you to the Cisco Foundation . Through their generous ...1 week ago -
The future of news is entrepreneurial
News Innovation —
Authority: 415
The future of news is entrepreneurial. There’s a lot in that statement. It says: The future of news is not institutional… The news of tomorrow has yet to be built…. The structure – the ecosystem – of news will not be dominated by a few corporations but likely will be made up of networks of many startups ...2 weeks ago -
Guess who monetised editorial space first?
sans serif —
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“Paid News”—editorial space being sold for a fee, without revealing to news consumers that it is an advertisement—is suddenly all the rage, with the Magsaysay Award-winning journalist P. Sainath weighing in on the issue. The Foundation for Media Professionals (FMP) conducted a seminar on the topic; ...2 weeks ago -
DocumentCloud Going Open Source Every Step of the Way
MediaShift Idea Lab —
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What does it mean to work on a project where open-source principles are written into the founding contract? A little over a month after receiving a 2009 Knight News Challenge grant, DocumentCloud released its first open-source component. The system, called CloudCrowd , performs the distributed computing that helps ...2 weeks ago -
The G-Word … government … and the future of news
Knight Foundation Blog —
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In USA TODAY , Don Campbell writes that media executives are the ones responsible for the future of news. ”Publishers and news executives face perilous challenges, but they don’t need, nor should they accept, help from government at any level,” he says. ” They have to save themselves.” Campbell ...2 weeks ago
