We Media Fellowship Recipients

The Media Center offered 15 fellowships for nonprofit, academic and independent media to attend the We Media conference at The Associated Press word headquarters on Oct. 5. We received about 140 applications from all over the world. It was a highly qualified, exceptional applicant pool, making it very difficult for us to select just fifteen […]

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Blogging in the spotlight on election day

Cynthia Webb at washingtonpost.com reports “In the thick of a historic and obsessively watched Election Day, bloggers shook up the mainstream media by providing an early look at election exit polls, proving once and for all their influence not only in the coverage of politics but perhaps in the electoral process itself.” (registration required) Meantime, […]

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Media Future: Join the dialog

The away teams are still hard at work. Here’s a summary, from our perspective, of what happened last month in Newport Beach. It boils down to this: Technology is driving or enabling profound changes in how individuals access, assess and respond to information. These changes, and emerging technologies that will propel them further, are visible […]

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Next: Webcast, Simultaneous Media, Join In

In a few moments we’ll be conducting a a webcast to review what we learned in Newport Beach, the SIMM simultaneous media consumption study we released to the public this morning, and where we’re going with all this. Comments and additional discussion are always welcome. The most important outcome of MediaMorphosis was the initiation of […]

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Mediamorphosis: Manifesting a viral network

Last week, we launched Morph, a real-time conference blog for the Mediamorphosis conference sponsored by the American Press Institute. Ezra Klein, Britta Gustafson, and Mary Hodder worked with me on covering the discussions; we also involved folks like JD Lasica and Jon Dube to comment remotely. The blog launched Wednesday; but Thursday afternoon it had […]

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The State of the Media

This morning first thing, this State of the Media report was posted on a few blogs. I started reading through the sections, which cover newspapers, online, local/cable/network TV, magazines, radio and ethnic/alternative media. It was put together by Columbia’s JSchool (and a few other folks) and funded by Pew. NPR was on it by around […]

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