Censors got the best of many journalists around the world last year, according to an alarming analysis by Reporters Without Borders reported today on MediaShift: For the first time since the Internet emerged as a tool for public use, there are currently 100 bloggers and cyber-dissidents imprisoned worldwide as a result of posting their...
Why are journalists falling all over themselves trying to figure out Twitter? Because the social network is growing at epic pace, from alerting the world to breaking news to providing sources and a media audience. In a MediaShift story, journalist Alana Taylor, a student at New York University, reports on a recent panel discussion,...
Where newspapers and other media neglect to cover issues important to readers, bloggers are filling the void, according to a Simon Owens on MediaShift. He chronicles several places where bloggers have taken on a particular topic — politics, crime, land-use planning — and gained a significant following. Why? Because people passionate about those issues...
Newspapers, it would seem, are rapidly coming to the end of their press run. It’s shocking to many just how fast the bottom has fallen out of the industry. (Penny stocks, anyone?) As they struggle to continue their print editions, newspapers are joining in the scramble for the elusive online business model that will...
Thank you, Bryan Murley, for your MediaShift update on one of my favorite journalism topics, the evolution of online campus media. In “College Media Has Come a Long Way Online” Murley provides links to a number of innovative online operations on campuses nationwide. It’s instructive to see what the next generation of journalists is...
