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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.
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.
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.
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.
Meet us in New York April 5 and help kick off the We Media NYC conference. We’re teaming up with PBS MediaShift for a mixer from 6 pm to 9 pm at Solas Bar, 232 E 9th St (between Stuyvesant St & 2nd Ave). Click to RSVP.
Jason Linkins explains the standards, the quality of journalism and how The Huffington Post really works. Case closed.
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For the first time since the web itself was created, business, markets, governments and society as a whole are aligning around the networked culture.
Lacking respect for news, AOL tries to charm its way into your wallet with Arianna’s alchemy and a cynical master plan for low- and no-cost content.
Today I watched the movie Groundhog Day and downloaded The Daily on my iPad. Both reminded me how we live the same day over and over until we get it right. Rupert Murdoch’s much-anticipated, save-the-newspaper app debuted after several delays. You’ve got to love the serendipity of the February 2 been-here-before release: the newspaper for […]
The next exhibit in the Museum of Next may be its next museum. Take the tour at Art Project, now online. Google has scanned more than 1,000 masterpeices from prominent art museums around the world and brings images of the artworks to computers via the Web. Visitors have the option to look so closely at […]
If you seek meaning from the events in Egypt, then you know Mona Eltahawy. “An Egyptian from the inside and outside,” she is the voice of a people, an interpreter for Western media. Meet her at We Media NYC.
With most Internet services blocked, Google quickly created a “speak-to-tweet” service to allow people in Egypt to tweet with a voice connection. It allows those on the ground in Egypt to dial three international numbers and leave a voice message sent out as tweet with the #egypt hash tag. You can listen to the messages […]
Covering the news of a complex, volatile world should make you humble. It makes Bill Keller smug. What he is really saying is that something is news when The New York Times says its news.
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