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Reuters, Gizmodo Hacks Are Cautionary Tales for News Orgs
The Syrian civil war is also a propaganda war. With the Assad regime and the rebels both attempting to assure their supporters and the world that they are on the brink of victory, how the facts are...
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Why Self-Publishers Should Care That Penguin Bought Author Solutions
Should self-publishers care that Pearson, the corporate parent of Penguin Group, has acquired Author Solutions and its subsidiaries? Maybe. Because among them are Author House, Booktango, Inkubook,...
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Irish Times Brings Five Startups into Newsroom for Shakeup
Do we define the future of the newspaper based on the product and its medium? Or do we look to the interaction between the product and the reader, and ask the digital realm to reinvent the...
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4 Tech, Social Innovations at the RNC -- And One Clever Tweet
TAMPA, Fla. -- For those who haven't experienced it, a national political convention in America is something like a post-apocalyptic police state crossed with the Super Bowl and an Academy Awards red...
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Can PayPal Cut Off 'Sugar Daddy' Dating Sites?
Online dating services have been around for quite a while, and through them, members of just about any social subgroup can get help looking for that perfect match. But an online dating service may be...
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Literary Agent Jason Ashlock: Big Book Publishers Not Innovating Fast Enough
When I saw Jason Ashlock take part in a panel on the future of book publishing at the Aspen Summer Words conference a few months ago, I immediately noticed something different about him: He lacked that...
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NYFF: Inside the Transmedia Buzz
For its 50th anniversary, the New York Film Festival, which wrapped up this weekend, went transmedia. Matt Bolish of the Film Society of Lincoln Center said the transmedia focus -- to which the entire...
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Digital First? Print First? Both Should Work Together
Let's learn a lesson from the past. When the news first started going digital, that is when it started appearing on the World Wide Web and print saw it as a competitor that would give the product away...
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Why I Left American Public Media to Start GroundTruth
At the end of September, I left American Public Media after 13 years as a reporter and co-founder of the Public Insight Network. I have three young kids. I had a good job in an industry where good jobs...
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We Need a 'Truth' Campaign for Digital Literacy and Data Tracking
Earlier this year, Bill Diggins, a marketing executive at Verizon Wireless, revealed a chilling fact about how much information the company collects about its customers. "We're able to view just...
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Mediatwits #63: Digital Literacy for Online Tracking; Ford Foundation Funds...
Welcome to the 63rd episode of the Mediatwits podcast, with Mark Glaser and Dorian Benkoil as co-hosts. Rafat Ali is off this week. Who's watching you online and what do they know about you? A lot of...
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News Corp.'s The Daily: Successful Experiment, Failed Publication
As news spread on Monday that The Daily, the 100,000 subscription, tablet-only news magazine would shutter before the end of the year, a torrent of analysis sprung up to explain how and why 2010's...
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Data Security 101 for Journalists
"Security is the chief enemy of mortals." - Shakespeare As the story of former General and CIA Director David Petraeus has unfolded, we continue to get surprising insights into the digital breadcrumbs...
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Can You Still Spot.us? Crowdfunding Pioneer Slumps Under APM
Crowdfunding has skyrocketed in the past couple of years as entrepreneurs bypass traditional keepers of the purse and instead appeal to individual donors to help get their projects off the ground --...
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The 10 Most Disruptive News Apps of 2012
According to research produced by Nielsen, as of 2012 the majority of phone owners in the U.S. now operate smartphones. Accordingly, the growth in app markets for Apple and Android continues unabated,...
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Whatever the Criticism, CEO Jason Kilar Made It Work at Hulu
The quickest way to set off at least one media exec I know is to praise Jason Kilar for making Hulu work. I can almost set a timer for the refrain. Look at what he had to work with -- content from...
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5 Pitfalls Hulu Avoided That Could Have Killed It
Jason Kilar's departure from Hulu has prompted many retrospectives on his time at the premium video service. Staci D. Kramer wrote a nice piece on MediaShift about the emphasis on user experience....
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CES 2013: Goodbye Megapixel Race, Hello Hybrid Innovation
There's a love-hate relationship with the Consumer Electronic Show, the annual celebration of digital delights and unstoppable innovation that engages Las Vegas with 150,000 rabid buyers, sellers and...
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5 Tips for Transmedia Storytelling
With readers juggling their tablets, mobile phones, laptops and more as they consume the news, journalists have an opportunity to create a new kind of story. Transmedia storytelling means dividing...
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How to Succeed as a Voiceover Artist in the Digital Age
In most people's thinking, being in a small padded room would not be a good thing. But to voiceover artists, such as the incomparable Mel Blanc of Warner Brothers' Looney Tunes fame, such a room is the...
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