We’ve recorded another podcast! WeMedia is producing a regular podcast that features in-depth interviews with prominent media, technology, and social change figures, as well as distinguished experts on current affairs and news. Today marks our second installment. Our goal is to help the WeMedia community understand the roots of the changes taking place in our […]
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer has been put up for sale by the Hearst Corporation. If it does not find a buyer in 60 days (56 days and counting…) — most analysts believe it won’t — the paper will cease production. This week, I am outlining my plan for how to save the Seattle PI, return it […]
WeMedia is podcasting! Beginning today, WeMedia will produce a regular podcast that features in-depth interviews with prominent media, technology, and social change figures, as well as distinguished experts on current affairs and news. Our goal is to provide the WeMedia community understand the roots of the changes taking place in our society, hear from the […]
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer has been put up for sale by the Hearst Corporation. If it does not find a buyer in 60 days (56 days and counting…) — most analysts believe it won’t — the paper will cease production. This week, I am outlining my plan for how to save the Seattle PI, return it […]
There is a new player in the online news space. Welcome www.globalpost.com. Their mission: “GlobalPost intends to build a community of top correspondents as well as a community of users of the site who share the need and the desire for quality news about the world.” More here.
On Friday, the Hearst Corporation announced that it was putting the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, the older of Seattle’s two daily papers, up for sale. If a buyer is not found within 60 days (57 and counting…) then the paper will cease its print production. The prospects of finding a buyer, according to analysts, is slim and […]
It’s rare that a blog post is so personal, or powerful, or relevant, or honest, or dignified… whatever that special quality is… that it re-defines the whole medium for me. But it happens.
In an article posted online yesterday, Google CEO Eric Schmidt told Adam Lashinsky of Fortune Magazine that he wished he could save the newspaper industry, but he didn’t know how. Very generous. Dan Froomkin, former Washington Post reporter and now head of the NeimanWatchdog.org wrote on Huffington Post some suggestions for how Google can help […]
I like newspapers, a lot. I subscribe to two newspapers in print, and read dozens more each morning online. But I don’t rely on newspapers for news. By the time the morning newspaper arrives (or posts online) the news is old, obsolete. I get my breaking news online, via text message and Twitter, or through […]
Barack Obama is a huge news story. His campaign generated unprecedented levels of media attention. Every move during his transition is being chronicled and analyzed by press from all over the world, in every format imaginable. And when his presidency finally begins, more media will be watching and following the President than at any point […]
For most of us, today marks the first full work day of the New Year. At very least, its the first day back blogging after a holiday hiatus. So, it seemed appropriate to share one of my media-related resolutions to get things rolling again. My first resolution is simple: to read more. I consume a […]
In the conversation about the future of media, so much of the focus naturally falls to technology and the role it will play in distributing information to the masses. Most attention is paid to the creation of media and how we can monetize it. In doing that, however, we often overlook the institutions that are […]
The end of the year is rapidly approaching, which means the media world has once again become obsessed with lists. There are top ten lists popping up in newspapers, magazines, and on radio and TV for everything: crises and controversies, news stories, celebrity train-wrecks, movies, songs, books, and tv shows, iPhone applications, games (both video […]
NOTE: We asked each of our 2009 Game Changers Awards finalists to write about their projects, what they’ve learned along the way and what’s next. This essay written by Donna Liu, Director for Strategic Initiatives, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University. UCHANNEL: ACCESS TO A WORLD OF IDEAS The Woodrow Wilson […]
The annual list of what the world searches for online has been released. No real surprises — Britney Spears and Barack Obama top the lists, which are littered with pop culture (WWE, Miley Cyrus, Lindsay Lohan) and political (Sarah Palin) references. The Olympics, the iPhone, and functional terms like credit score make a good showing […]