Convention coverage: Awaiting the You Tube moment
Four years ago, a handful of of bloggers received credentials to cover the Democratic National Convention. The controversial credentials,...
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What went wrong keeps going wrong for newspapers
Alan Mutter, an astute analyst who formerly served as editor of the San Francisco Chronicle, now puts the combined value of ten major news...
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A new way to rate the news: how does it make you feel?
Aggregation of news headlines and user ratings is so commonplace it’s hardly worth a second thought. Except, that is, if you’re...
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The lost summer of newspapers
Reporter: If you could’ve found out what Rosebud meant, I bet that would’ve explained everything. Other reporter: No, I...
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A preview of Poynter Online’s new design
The academy for journalists in St. Pete plans to unveil its redesign, nine months in the making, later this week. Cleaner, yet still busy,...
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Jon Stewart and trust, for those who might have missed it
Years after the rest of of us knew it, New York Times literary critic Michiko Kakutani coronates Jon Stewart as “a genuine cultural...
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Beyond MSM, many views and images of China and Olympics
Like many of you, I’ll be glued to the tube for the Olympics and fresh glimpses of the world’s oldest civilization. Fortunately, there...
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China: A view from the back of a galloping horse
Much of the world will form opinions about China from the legions of mainstream broadcasters and journalists descending on Beijing for the...
Read MoreWe Media’s Witnesses: Everything you thought you knew about the news has changed.
The 800 reporters from the world’s news organizations who descended upon Blacksburg, Va., on April 16, 2007, to cover the shootings of...
Read MoreWe Media: How audiences are shaping the future of news and information
This is the original report we published in 2004 (back when we called ourselves The Media Center). This seminal research report accurately...
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