Stories from the Field

We Need a 'Truth' Campaign for Digital Literacy and Data Tracking

[Source: MediaShift, by Josh Stearns, November 13, 2012]
Earlier this year, Bill Diggins, a marketing executive at Verizon Wireless, revealed a chilling fact about how much information the company collects about its customers. "We're able to view just ...

An unusual pubTV marriage

[Source: CUrrent, by Dru Sefton, October 24, 2012]
The merger of KCET in Los Angeles and satellite programmer Link TV pairs two noncommercial outlets with a shared focus on serving non-traditional public TV audiences, complementary ...

The Fight Over PBS Should Be to Broaden Its Scope, Not to Threaten It

[Source: The Chronicle of Philanthropy, by Vincent Stehle, October 28, 2012]
If Big Bird were on the ballot on Election Day, he’d probably win in a landslide. But in our closely divided partisan election cycle, public broadcasting has once again become a sign of divided ...

Africa: Tracking Killers and Healers - a Research and Reporting Collaboration

[Source: AllAfrica, by Tami Hultman, October 8, 2012]
Over the past several weeks, AllAfrica's crack investigative team has documented scientists acting strangely. At summits, symposia and scholarly consultations – and in exclusive interviews – ...

Robert R. McCormick Foundation Funds Community-Based Approaches to News Literacy

[Source: Robert R. McCormick Foundation, October 3, 2012]
“Why News Matters” Grants Encourage Citizen Engagement

How Transmedia Storytelling Could Revolutionize Documentary Filmmaking

[Source: MediaShift, by Amanda Lin Costa, September 27, 2012]
While documentary films have come a long way since 2004 when Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 became the highest-grossing documentary of all time, paving the way for feature documentaries to carry ...

Producing a Collaborative Media Fellowship Model at Stanford

[Source: MediaShift, by Geoff McGhee, September 26, 2012]
In our small lab at Stanford University, we've been prototyping new models of collaboration that bring journalists together with university researchers and scholars. We're eager to share them ...