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Introducing Meridian Stories

Posted by on Mar 28, 2011 in Pitch It | 5 comments

Introducing Meridian Stories

Meridian Stories is designed as a YouTube-like environment, driven by regularly scheduled, global competitions between schools, around short-form storytelling using image, words, film and music.

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Introducing Stable Renters

Posted by on Mar 28, 2011 in Pitch It | 5 comments

Introducing Stable Renters

Stable Renters will assemble a profile and score for every rental property and owner based on a history of violations, lawsuits, pending charges, bedbugs, ceiling leaks and more.

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Introducing Longshot Media

Posted by on Mar 28, 2011 in Pitch It | 4 comments

Introducing Longshot Media

Longshot Media is a hybrid media company that harnesses the tools of the Web and social media to create a print-on-demaand magazine.

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Introducing Neighborhood Pages

Posted by on Mar 25, 2011 in Pitch It | 5 comments

Introducing Neighborhood Pages

Neighborhood Pages offers affordable, custom Drupal installations to get hyper-local news & community sites up and running, and ongoing support and training to help them succeed.

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Introducing NewsWar

Posted by on Mar 25, 2011 in Pitch It | 17 comments

Introducing NewsWar

NewsWar is a social media strategy game based on the real world.

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Will the NYTimes (paywall) matter?

Posted by on Mar 22, 2011 in Business, Features, Journalism | 15 comments

Will the NYTimes (paywall) matter?

Until it becomes something else - something worthy of a genuine, heartfelt, passionate backlash - The New York Times will remain a story that no paywall can re-write, no matter how porous or protective it may be.

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Introducing Pando Projects

Posted by on Mar 17, 2011 in Pitch It | 12 comments

Introducing Pando Projects

Pando Projects is a digital platform that helps Americans solve problems in their communities.

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Investigate with Twitter

Posted by on Mar 14, 2011 in How To | 0 comments

Investigate with Twitter

Six days after Ian Tomlinson’s death at the G20 protests in London, Guardian reporter Paul Lewis had twenty reliable witnesses who could be placed on a map at the time of the incident - and only one of them had come from the traditional journalistic tool of a contact number in his notebook.

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This is quite a group

Posted by on Mar 10, 2011 in We Media NYC | 7 comments

This is quite a group

The brainpower gathering for We Media NYC, on April 6th, is off the charts.

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A startup founder pays it forward

Posted by on Mar 9, 2011 in Pitch It | 8 comments

A startup founder pays it forward

The newest journalism class at the University of Miami gives digital natives a chance to research, test and pitch new business ideas - and learn a thing or two from PitchIt Challenge winner Lucas Sommer.

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