21 Dec, 2009
Posted by: Mark In: rural journalism| social media
The future of journalism and new media is fun to talk about in the abstract, but things get a little hairier when we start talking about actual projects tried out at actual news organizations, especially the small, local ones that make up the vast majority of our journalistic ecosystem. So I thought it’d be helpful [...]
07 Nov, 2009
Posted by: Mark In: hyperlocal| rural journalism
Every once in a while, I read an article that reminds me just how far rural Nebraska is from the world inhabited by most of the people who write about media. That was the case this week with Justin Carder’s piece on Seattle’s teeming hyperlocal news ecosystem, “Will Hyperlocal Ever Scale? One Entrepreneur’s Story,” at [...]
21 Sep, 2009
Posted by: Mark In: this week
This week, we’ve got a few new developments, a load of nifty resources and several more go-rounds in the always-festering paid content debate. Let’s get to it. (Explanation here.)
— The biggest news in new media this week was probably the launch last Monday of Google Fast Flip, which allows you to flip through articles across [...]