On Monday, Time Magazine Washington Bureau Chief, Jay Carney, announced he was leaving his post to take the job of Communications Director for incoming Vice President Joe Biden. Mark Halperin broke the story on The Page blog writing simply “Outgoing newsmag bureau chief Jay Carney to be assistant to the vice president and his director […]
Today we’re announcing two new programs to support innovation and social entrepreneurship with media – and to help incubate the next generation of game changers and world changers. Here’s how: 1. The We Media Pitch It Challenge. We’re offering two visionaries up to $25,000 each in seed funding to help turn their bold ideas into […]
A study released last week suggests “that the media may be entering a climate trance (or ending a bubble, depending on your view).” The study was conducted by Maxwell Boykoff, who studies the media and climate change at Oxford University, and posted by Andrew Revkin, the New York Times’ climate writer/blogger. Revkin quotes Dr. Boykoff […]
McDonald’s has decided to pick a fight with Starbucks. In addition to offering espresso drinks to their billions of customers served, the fast food chain has launched a massive online/offline/outdoor marketing effort to distinguish itself from the world’s most popular coffee chain. The concept is not original – Dunkin’ Donuts has been comparing itself to […]
During a recent presentation at the New America Foundation, Google chief executive Eric Schmidt said “The vast majority of information is still not searchable or findable either because it’s not published or it’s on Web sites which the government has put up which no one can index.” He was referring to the U.S. government, one […]
Mark I. Pinsky, a former religion reporter for Tribune Co.’s Orlando Sentinel, makes a modest proposal in TNR.com for a government-funded program to hire out-of-work journalists. The historical precedent is the Federal Writers Project, which hired 6,000 writers from 1935 to 1939 – among whom were some rising American literary superstars, including John Steinbeck, John […]
Does how much the media spends covering the candidates imply there was a bias in their coverage? Even now, more than a month after Election Day, people are still debating whether the media was biased in favor of Barack Obama. The latest ‘evidence’ was the amount of money the media spent to cover the Obama […]
We asked Timothy Karr, the Campaign Director for Free Press, to offer some thoughts on broadband policy and President-Elect Obama’s pledge to make the Internet available to all. His guest post is below: In a Saturday morning YouTube address, President-elect Barack Obama gave the nation a first glimpse at his administration’s stimulus plan – and […]
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 David Dunkley Gyimah at www.viewmagazine.tv. We tell stories. Everything we do is about stories. From the young child skipping home from school, the mother navigating a […]
The arrest of Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich on corruption charges (including a claim that he tried to profit from the selection of a replacement for now President-Elect Obama’s Senate seat) is a huge story. But, within this huge story there were two other huge stories from the standpoint of the media. First, among the examples […]
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 submitted by Jim Turner, Media Relations, Humana Inc. As one of the nation’s largest health care companies, Humana, Inc. is dedicated to improving the health of Americans. As […]
Recipients include digital storytellers, social networking activists, mobile media pioneers and a foundation focused on journalism. RESTON, VA – Online media star ZeFrank, mobile texting service Twitter, Obama campaign mastermind David Plouffe, Japanese digital designer Yugo Nakamura, Kenyan mobile alert service Ushahidi, and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation are among the inaugural […]
The Tribune Co. has declared bankruptcy – to no one’s surprise. That’s what makes the demise of one of the great U.S. news companies so tragic, in the Greek sense. The seeds of failure were set a decade ago with a misguided focus on acquisitions and local market monopolies across media. Community interests, journalistic passion […]
The Pew Internet & American Life project released a new study today that said “More than half – 53% – of all American adults play video games of some kind, whether on a computer, on a gaming console, on a cell phone or other handheld device, on a portable gaming device, or online.” I play […]
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 Jory Des Jardins, BlogHer co-founder and President of Strategic Alliances. In early 2005, my co-founders, Lisa Stone and Elisa Camahort Page, and I wanted to put […]