Sidekicks on the South Side: Barbara Iverson on mobile storytelling, “hybrary” cards and cooperative news

Barbara Iverson is one busy professor. In addition to teaching multi-media reporting and other journalism topics at Columbia College Chicago, she blogs at currentbuzz (“where technology meets, greets, clashes with and transforms journalism today”) and co-publishes Creating Community Connections, a community-generated hyperlocal news-site. Barbara will be with us at We Media Miami, and today she […]

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Creating crowd-sourced (and funded?) journalism that works

If you’re geeky about journalism and technology, then you’ll definitely want to search out David Cohn at We Media Miami. (Look for the cool hair.) David is chest-deep in some of the most exciting experiments in journalism these days: As editor at NewAssignment.Net and NewsTrust.net, he is helping think through, in very practical ways, how […]

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Take this digital media challenge and save a life

Joan Peckolick, the founder and director of Selfchec.org, which leverages the power of human relationships to promote health, is one of the many media activists joining our We Media Miami conversation. On a Wednesday afternoon panel chaired by Suzanne Turner of Turner Strategies, Joan will share how social media can not only encourage healthy lifestyles […]

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US Elections: The View from Everywhere Else

Reuters and Global Voices have launched a new web site called Voices without Votes that aggregates views on the US elections from bloggers in other countries. Solana Larson, co-managing editor for GV, explained the project in an email this afternoon: Global Voices challenges people to listen to people beyond their own borders. We translate back […]

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Got an idea? We’ve got a new launching pad

Let’s say you have thought up a genius idea: a new way to advertise, to network, to save the world. How will you launch it into cyberspace? Digital media means anyone with an Internet connection can be an entrepreneur or media-maker. But while anyone may have an innovative idea, not everyone has the business know-how […]

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