WeThink
I am excited to announce the launch of a new project that we are calling WeThink. What is it? WeThink is a conversation...
Read MoreRising: Nonprofit media
When Suzanne Turner begins the discussion at next week’s We Media Miami conference about the game-changing journalism nonprofits are doing, the spotlight will be on four groups who’ve found some creative ways to navigate the ever-changing media landscape.
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iPad: Publishing savior or evil empire?
Last week Apple banished a bunch of raunchy pictures from its iPhone App Store. As Apple rolls out the iPad later this month, and media companies support the frenzy with iPad apps and subscription services for it, that leave us all to wonder what other content, speech or ideas might be kicked out next.
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PBS CEO Paula Kerger to speak at We Media Miami
The decline of US news companies has led to a call for expanded public media. But in the UK the BBC is blamed for stifling the news market - and it's shrinking.
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BBC’s global news chief moves to PR
Richard Sambrook, director of BBC Global News since 2004, is saying goodbye to one of the world's most influential jobs in journalism, and hello to, what should I say - the murky, spin-meisterly, lucrative? - world of public relations. Or should that be creative, innovative and transformational?
Read MoreThe first We President
President Obama has a historic opportunity to communicate more directly with the American public – and with the entire world. The world, in turn, has an opportunity to monitor, inform and influence the Obama Administration’s actions and policies.
Read MoreNewspapers fall out of orbit
Late last year William Dean Singleton, the CEO of MediaNews, announced he had identified the problem behind years of steep...
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Raising Voices: Amra Tareen at We Media
Amra Tareen, the savvy and ebullient founder of AllVoices, has just closed a $3 million funding round for the innovative,...
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Tabula Rasa: iPad’s blank slate
The biggest surprise from yesterday’s unveiling of Apple’s iPad was that print publishers and journos...
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Oops, there goes local
A few months after three, young software architects launched an obscure social networking and microblogging service,...
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Copenhagen: It’s the future of news
The future of the world's news and knowledge system is on full display in and around the stories from the Copenhagen Climate Summit.
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Robots, copyright and the whine at WAN
We couldn’t get to Hyderabad for this year’s group hug of the world’s newspaper publishers, but it sounds...
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How Tiger took our eyes off the ball
Fifty-six million stories. Where's the one about transparent government?
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Mr. Murdoch saves the news
Dear Mr. Murdoch: We’re so fortunate that we can entrust you with the future of the news business in the U.S. Such a shrewd...
Read MoreHyper-Local Media. The 4th Branch of Gov2.0
This is a true testimony to the magic of a system that allows for open communication and collaborative problem solving around public concerns. You can really see how media, industry, government and private citizens can work together to improve their communities:
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