[Source: Free Press, by Josh Stearns, August 15, 2012]
Mark Thompson, director general of the BBC, has been named the new CEO of the New York Times. The choice of Thompson comes just weeks after the Times announced that it now ...
[Source: GigaOm, by Matthew Ingram, August 10, 2012]
As Twitter and Facebook continue to fight a variety of skirmishes in the ongoing “platform wars,” with both companies trying to control as much of their networks as they can in order ...
[Source: ZeroDivide, by Laura Efurd, June 14, 2012]
Imagine an Internet so powerful that it is virtually unlimited. What kind of world would this be? How would it change our society and solve our most pressing social issues?
[Source: Fast Company, by Jeremy Lehrer, July 2, 2012]
Tomorrow Partners introduces a free, open-source tool designed to help nonprofits tell their stories. Here, they share the guiding principles behind its creation.
[Source: The Chicago Community Trust, by Ngoan Le, June 12, 2012]
If you’re concerned about the paucity of good reporting on issues facing low-income communities, you might want to take a look at the results of a recent experimental initiative by a collaborative ...
[Source: WITNESS, June 1, 2012]
For 20 years, WITNESS has been empowering activists to expose human rights abuse through video. Together, they have seen men, women and children speak out about the injustices they have ...
[Source: MediaShift, by Josh Stearns, May 29, 2012]
This month, federal agencies and local officials sent two powerful but conflicting messages to the American public about our right to record.
On May 14, the Justice Department submitted a
[Source: The New York Times, by Eduardo Porter, May 29, 2012]
Casual observers would find little in common between the smartphones in their pockets and the funky backbeat of the Beastie Boys’ "Car Thief." But these two creations will go down together in the ...
[Source: MediaShift, by Josh Stearns, May 14, 2012]
Since September, police have arrested dozens of journalists and activists around the country for the "crime" of trying to document political protests in public spaces. People using smartphones and ...