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Introducing Longshot Media

Posted by on Mar 28, 2011 in Pitch It | 0 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 | 0 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 | 2 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 | 2 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 | 0 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 | 0 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 | 0 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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Announcing the PitchIt Challenge finalists

Posted by on Mar 2, 2011 in Pitch It | 0 comments

Announcing the PitchIt Challenge finalists

Here they are - introducing nine awesome ideas we'd love to see come to life, and we're going to do our best to help them. Meet the 2011 finalists of the We Media PitchIt Challenge.

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Meet the PitchIt judges and mentors

Posted by on Mar 1, 2011 in Pitch It | 0 comments

Meet the PitchIt judges and mentors

The winners and finalists of the We Media PitchIt challenge gain access to an amazing group of commercial and social venture experts. Some of the mentors will serve as judges for the challenge, some will meet the day before for a coaching session with the finalists, most will attend and join the discussions at We Media NYC - and all of them have committed to providing one-on-one advice to the challenge winners.

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