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Change Summit audio is available

The audio recording of last week’s Power To Change The World Summit is online and well worth a listen for anyone who cares about media as a force for change in the world. You’ll find the Change Summit audio here. The context was thinking about media for the next hundred years. You probably think in […]

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Will work for … money

The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation is offering big bucks to support innovation in community journalism. The deadline for this year’s Knight News Challenge is Oct. 15. This is a big deal, especially in the U.S. where the commercial news industry is in decline. But it’s a big deal everywhere – in a […]

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Change Summit update: MLK III, MySpace, Sunlight, UN Foundation and many others are coming

Here’s an update on who’s coming to the Oct. 24 Power To Change The World summit, a one-day event Dale and I are organizing for UPI in Washington. More details at: www.changesummit.com. The early-bird registration expires Sept. 20. To register, go here. Confirmed participants include: Tom Bosco, VP and head of sales, MySpaceTV; Merrill Brown, […]

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What a choice: Jeff Jarvis, or a smily ass?

What’s more interesting: Jeff Jarvis skewering Yahoo!, or the smiling ass next to the story? It’s an ad for a … well, never mind, see for yourself. Meetup founder Scott Heiferman rightly notes that the ass web site is not just good, smart or prolific, like Jeff. In Scott’s words, it’s … transcendent. Yes. See […]

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Old school, old news

A new report from Harvard suggests that the Internet is “redistributing the news audience in a way that is pressuring some traditional news organizations.” Stop the presses. The report from the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government purports to peer into the future […]

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Who screws up the most? Everyone.

Each month I have dinner with good friends who happen to be editors at three of the nation’s leading news organizations. Given our friendship and a common kinship to newspapers, conversation invariably turns to journalism and its current woes. As a recovering journalist turned digerati, I am left to defend “Dale’s Internet” during spirited after-dinner […]

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