Meet Tracy at We Media Miami ’10. She co-authored, with Jessica Clark, the recently released book, Beyond The Echo Chamber: Reshaping Politics Through Networked Progressive Media. She’s the former publisher of In These Times magazine.
Tom Curley, President and CEO of The Associated Press, is working to make sure that The AP remains a strong and relevant force in the world of media.
Meet John John Hockenberry, online pioneer, TV and radio host and winner of multiple journalism awards.
Amazing class of We Media Miami ’10 Fellows includes: Donna Choi, Phil Daquila, Martha Diaz, Roshani Kithari, Suzanne McBride, Michael Stoll, Josh Wilson, Samantha Beinhacker, Heidi Boisvert and Ely Bonder.
Over on my Fast Company Experts blog, I have issued a challenge. Here is what I wrote: I have come to the conclusion that most (maybe all) business and strategy books are useless. They over-generalize. They offer little value. I go in with such high expectations, based on reviews and descriptions, and am almost universally […]
A few months back we asked each of our 2009 Game Changers Awards finalists to write about their projects, what they have learned along the way and what’s next. (Here’s the rest of the series). Somehow, amidst the flurry of conference preparations, this one slipped through our crack(ed) editorial process. But it’s important, so here […]
The sky is falling! Newspapers aren’t going to survive. They’re declaring bankruptcy en masse. The Seattle Post Intelligencer is the latest considering going digital-only, I was told last night at We Media, along with the San Francisco Chronicle. Others already have given up some or all of their print editions. TV networks are bleeding, book […]
The platitudes replay and recycle like a broken record: news is a conversation, it’s networked, it’s all about the crowd, we’ve got to preserve the values, the traditions, the jobs, and above all we need to discover and exploit the fucking hell out of whatever “the” business model turns out to be.
It’s rare that a blog post is so personal, or powerful, or relevant, or honest, or dignified… whatever that special quality is… that it re-defines the whole medium for me. But it happens.