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Pulp Magazines Struggle to Survive in Wired World

Every year Locus Magazine, "The Magazine Of The Science Fiction & Fantasy Field," publishes a year-in-review of the genre. This summation ...

Burmese Blogger Sentenced to 20 Years For Reporting on Protests

In many countries, you have to commit a serious crime to be sentenced to 20 years in jail, but in Burma this ...

How Newspapers Can Increase Their Google Juice

There isn't much difference between what appears in a small newspaper's print edition and online. Many photographs make it online that don't ...

Can Crowdfunding Help Save the Journalism Business?

Bands do it. Filmmakers do it. President-elect Barack Obama made an artform out of it. "It" is crowdfunding, getting micro-donations through the ...

Canadian Court Rules Linking to Libel Isn’t (Necessarily) Libel

Linking to content is the essence of the online experience -- it's the "Web" in the World Wide Web. But there's a ...

Nigeria Joins List of Countries Harassing Bloggers

On October 19, U.S.-based Nigerian blogger and journalist Jonathan Elendu of Elendu Reports was arrested by the Nigerian State ...

Video Report from Jeff Pulver’s Tel Aviv Breakfast Meetup

I thought I was going to a breakfast where people actually ate food. But food is hardly the top priority at a ...

Poll Crashers Tilt Unscientific Polls Their Way

During the Republican National Convention, NOW, a PBS weekly TV news magazine, posted an unscientific poll on ...

Poll Crashers Tilt Unscientific Polls Their Way

During the Republican National Convention, NOW, a PBS weekly TV news magazine, posted an unscientific poll on ...

FriendFeed Widget Motivates Reporters to Use Social Media

Blogs should be conversations. At least, that is how we think about blogging at Mediafin, Belgium's leading publisher of business newspapers and ...

NYU Local Blog Connects a School with No Campus

The idea for NYU Local, the newest addition to New York University's list of publications, was born ...

LIVE Election Day Chat with Special Guests!

I will be joined by an all-star lineup of new media experts, academics, and social media gurus to look at how online ...

Citizens, Media Use Social Media to Monitor Election

In a YouTube video uploaded on October 24, a husband and wife couple from Oregon sit at their kitchen table and ...

Judges Rule Anonymous Commenters Protected by State Shield Laws

Political campaigns often produce a blizzard of ancillary election-related litigation -- for an example, just look to the 2000 presidential campaign. When ...

Current TV’s ‘SuperNews’ Comedy Gauges Success on Web Views

I live about 7 minutes' drive from the headquarters of Al Gore's innovative Current TV in San Francisco, yet my cable system, ...

Econ Bloggers Gain Clout in Financial Crisis

Late last month Dean Starkman, a writer for the Columbia Journalism Review, penned a scathing piece titled "Ouryay Eatbay Just Ewblay ...

Learning How to Make Multimedia Story Decisions

Multimedia journalism is one of those terms often used to refer to a wide range of online content. Recently, I began ...

6 Ways Authors Can Succeed by Self-Publishing Books

When blogger Sramana Mitra finished writing her new book, she could have done what a lot of writers do: pitched it ...

How ‘Follower Spam’ Infiltrated Twitter — and How to Stop It

When using the micro-blogging service Twitter, by default you get email notices whenever anyone signs up to "follow" you (when you ...

China Blocks Blogs, Search Results on Tainted Milk Scandal

The evidence is accumulating. The censorship imposed on the Chinese media about the contaminated milk scandal has had disastrous consequences according ...

How Political Diarists Power RedState, Daily Kos

In October of last year, a man named Leon H Wolf published a post on the front page of influential conservative blogging ...

How Audience Input Shaped Our Financial Crisis Coverage

It has been a while since I last reported about the changing work practices at Belgian business newspaper publisher Mediafin, but, as ...

Your Guide to Political Polling Sites

From time to time, I'll give an overview of one broad MediaShift topic, annotated with online resources and plenty of tips. The ...

How the Focus on Print Hurts Our Newspaper Site

Byzantine: intricately involved. I don't consider our print and online newspaper areas here at the Bowling Green Daily News to be Byzantine. ...

Teacher Fired for Inappropriate Behavior on MySpace Page

It's not just students who can get into difficulty for school-related blogging. In a recent case, a federal court rejected a ...

J-Schools Use Geo-tagging, Wikis, iPhones to Teach

Professors are commonly stereotyped as people who know more about books than technology. But as classrooms are now filled with a generation ...

Google Blocks Chrome Browser Use in Syria, Iran

Recently, I learned from Joshua Landis' Syria Comment, my main source for news and analysis concerning Lebanon's eastern neighbor, that Google ...

Africa News Empowers Citizens to Report Online

Over the past couple of months I have been following a new African news portal, Africa News, the latest in the ...

Gannett Pushes for More Tech Hires, Data Centers, Niche Sites

These are dark days for newspaper companies in the U.S. There are layoffs in print newsrooms, classified ad revenues are dwindling, ...

Welcome to the Redesigned, Revamped MediaShift

After months of planning and hard work behind the scenes, we are proud to launch a new revamped MediaShift website -- call ...

Journalists Consider Risks, Conflicts of Running Personal Blogs

Implementing strategies developed by millions of office workers who have honed the practice of flipping from computer solitaire to spreadsheets at the ...

Top Five Week Two Hundred Eight

Royalty settlement? House passes bill to lower Net radio rates Debates 2.0 Many ways to follow prez debates online AP dropped Spokesman-Review drops pricey AP feeds Social NPR Adds social networking features, ...

Project: Report::Can Pulitzer Contest Boost Serious Journalism on YouTube?

Whenever news breaks, the first people on the ground, before reporters arrive, are ordinary folks with cameras. Citizen journalists have played an important role in getting us the ...

Can Pulitzer Contest Boost Serious Journalism on YouTube?

Whenever news breaks, the first people on the ground, before reporters arrive, are ordinary folks with cameras. Citizen journalists have played an ...

Political Fact-Check Sites Proliferate, But Can They Break Through the Muck?

As the U.S. elections near the finish line, the presidential campaigns are throwing around enough verbal attacks and inflammatory advertising ...

Top Five Week Two Hundred Seven

Raja Petra Kamarudin Malaysian blogger sentenced to jail without trial Palin hack suspect David Kernell has apartment searched by FBI T-Mobile G-1 First phone with Google Android unveiled CBS Eyemobile...

Blog History 101::Scott Rosenberg Traces the Blogosphere’s Origins

In July of last year, the Wall Street Journal published an article titled “Happy Blogiversary,” claiming that it had officially been 10 years since the blog was born. ...

Scott Rosenberg Traces the Blogosphere’s Origins

In July of last year, the Wall Street Journal published an article titled "Happy Blogiversary," claiming that it had officially been 10 ...

Digging Deeper::NYU Professor Stifles Blogging, Twittering by Journalism Student

After New York University journalism student Alana Taylor wrote her first embed report for MediaShift on September 5, it didn’t take long for her scathing criticism of ...

NYU Professor Stifles Blogging, Twittering by Journalism Student

After New York University journalism student Alana Taylor wrote her first embed report for MediaShift on September 5, it didn't take ...

Top 5 Week Two Hundred Six

Palin email hack Anon group uses Wikileaks to reveal Yahoo mail Napster sold Best Buy pays less than annual revenues Hack the Debate Current TV will run Twitter posts during debate Sticky-note slinky...

YouTube Activism::How Greenwald’s Brave New Films Spreads Its Political Message Online

Last month, Politico’s Mike Allen asked presidential hopeful John McCain the seemingly innocent question of how many houses he owned. McCain’s response — “I’ll have my staff ...

How Greenwald’s Brave New Films Spreads Its Political Message Online

Last month, Politico's Mike Allen asked presidential hopeful John McCain the seemingly innocent question of how many houses he owned. McCain's ...

World View::Activists Face Obstacles Online in Winning Women’s Rights in Iran

Women in Iran have learned to unleash the Internet’s potential to promote freedom. In the country that has, according to the OpenNet Initiative, experienced the most explosive online ...

Activists Face Obstacles Online in Winning Women’s Rights in Iran

Women in Iran have learned to unleash the Internet's potential to promote freedom. In the country that has, according to the ...

Video Report from ONA::Journalism Grads Need Basic Skills Along with Multimedia

At journalism schools, professors like myself are trying to figure out what we should be teaching students so they can succeed in the newsrooms of today and tomorrow. ...

Journalism Grads Need Basic Skills Plus Openness, Flexibility

At journalism schools, professors like myself are trying to figure out what we should be teaching students so they can succeed in ...

Arab Bloggers Meet to Discuss Free Speech, Reject ‘Journalist’ Label

BEIRUT -- A quick look at the Regions sidebar on DigiActive, a nine-month old blog that catalogs how activists use digital ...

Embedded in Bowling Green::Does ‘Web First’ Strategy Make Sense for Small Newspapers?

The Bowling Green Daily News doesn’t have a “web first” strategy in the way we run our newspaper. That means that we don’t post articles to our website before ...