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 […]