Blog Profile / MediaShift
| URL : | http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/ | |
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| Filed Under: | Media / New Media | |
| Posts on Regator: | 1999 | |
| Posts / Week: | 9 | |
| Archived Since: | February 10, 2009 | |
Blog Post Archive
E-Books and Self-Publishing Roundup, March 21, 2013
1. Amazon Publishing promises authors faster royalty payments (PaidContent.org) 2. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act is even worse than you think (Slate) 3. Self-publishers: The new generation of cool kids (IndieReader) 4. Book email marketing site BookBub reaches 1 million subscribers (Digital Book World) 5. Show More Summary
Daily Must Reads, March 21, 2013
1. Stop making fun of the Washington Post's blogger job and start applying for it (Slate) 2. Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In: Women in tech and news share their views (Guardian) 3. YouTube now has 1 billion monthly users (Mashable) 4. Why Matthew Keys is not 'the next Aaron Swartz' (Washington Post) 5. Show More Summary
Does New York City Need a Physical 'Made in NY' Media Center?
New Media. Old Media. Film. Digital. Mobile. Lines have been blurring and mediums converging for the last few years. This summer in New York City, the Mayor's Office is making sure these convergences happen in a physical space. The area called "Silicon Alley" in DUMBO, Brooklyn, will soon become the home to the "Made In New York" Media Center. Show More Summary
Facebook Managing Editor Steps Down, Says Site 'Doesn't Need Reporters'
This piece is co-authored by Justin Runquist. Both Kaitlin Gillepsie and Runquist are with the Murrow News Service. Facebook managing editor Dan Fletcher announced Wednesday that he will be leaving the social media giant next month. Speaking before a crowded audience at the Edward R. Show More Summary
Daily Must Reads, March 20, 2013
1. The glory days of American journalism are now (Slate) 2. Time Out Chicago to nix print, go all digital (Sun Times) 3. RSS isn't dead: the best Google Reader alternatives (The Verge) 4. Amazon launches "Send to Kindle" button (PaidContent.org) 5. Show More Summary
The Challenges and Advantages of Female Media Entrepreneurs
Between Sheryl Sandberg's new "sort of feminist manifesto," Marissa Mayer's rapid post-pregnancy return to Yahoo, and The Atlantic's viral cover story on whether women can have it all, discussions on female leadership and work-life balance...Show More Summary
Journalism and Digital Education Roundup, March 19, 2013
1. Do universities hear the critics of journalism education? (Knight Foundation) 2. Knight Foundation's Newton: Many j-schools still haven't mastered the web (Poynter) 3. What do professors really think about the online courses they teach? (The Chronicle of Higher Education) 4. Show More Summary
Daily Must Reads, March 19, 2013
1. Washington Post to charge frequent web users (Washington Post) 2. In 2012, newspapers lost $16 in print ads for every $1 gained in digital (The Atlantic) 3. NBCnews.com snags Yahoo News editor-in-chief amid first wave of hires (WSJ) 4. Show More Summary
How the Boston Phoenix Kept Its Readers But Lost Its Advertisers
For the Boston Phoenix, the decline lasted years -- but the end came swiftly. Last Thursday afternoon a local journalist called to ask if I'd heard rumors that the 47-year-old alt-weekly was about to go under. I hadn't. Within an hour, Boston.com was reporting that the Phoenix would cease publication immediately. Show More Summary
Daily Must Reads, March 18, 2013
1. Nearly one-third of U.S. adults have abandoned a news outlet due to dissatisfaction (Poynter) 2. Twitter beats the sell-side after Cyprus bailout (Business Insider) 3. RSS app Feedly gains half a million users after death of Google Reader announced (memeburn) 4. Show More Summary
Journalism Students Give Helping Hand While Studying Abroad
In a rural province of Cambodia, a broadcast journalism student from California State University, Fullerton prepares a news report about an American medical missionary group that's come to the village to provide medical and dental treatment. Show More Summary
5 Key Takeaways from Pew's State of the News Media 2013
This morning, the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism (PEJ) released the 10th annual State of News Media report. To little surprise, digital operations continue to dominate change in the news media, creating opportunities...Show More Summary
Daily Must Reads, March 15, 2013
1. Reuters' Matthew Keys indicted for allegedly conspiring with hacker group 'Anonymous' (Politico) 2. Did Google just kill RSS? (Reuters) 3. Aaron Swartz to receive posthumous Freedom of Information Award (Mashable) 4. Google Maps Chief steps down to join Google X (Wired) 5. Show More Summary
Do Videogames Cause Stress in Kids? It's Complicated
Last September at Stanford's Medicine X, a conference on the future of medicine and emerging technologies, some of the most fascinating discussions I stumbled upon happened to be impromptu ones taking place in the hallways. One of these...Show More Summary
E-Books and Self-Publishing Roundup, March 14, 2013
1. Pay-as-you-read e-bookselling won't make it off the shelves (ReadWrite) 2. Apple CEO Cook ordered to testify in e-books case (Reuters) 3. Agent Mollie Glick on trends, self-publishing and truth vs. fiction (Huffington Post) 4. Cosmo, Harlequin to kick off e-book line (PaidContent.org) 5. Show More Summary
Daily Must Reads, March 14, 2013
1. Google Reader to shut down July 1 (The Verge) 2. Aaron Swartz lawyers accuse prosecutor of misconduct (Huffington Post) 3. Small but passionate online audience Kickstarts "Veronica Mars" movie (TechCrunch) 4. In Defense of Reddit: The SXSW controversy that just won't die (MotherBoard) 5. Show More Summary
Self-Publishing Takes Center Stage at the San Francisco Writers Conference
The San Francisco Writers Conference has always been strong on self-publishing, and this year the conference fully embraced the topic by inviting Guy Kawasaki to keynote. The Silicon Valley venture capitalist and former chief evangelist...Show More Summary
Daily Must Reads, March 13, 2013
1. New Report: Teens and Technology (Pew Internet) 2. Fed issues rules for social media and small screen ads (PaidContent.org) 3. How does The New York Times determine which articles have comments? (Nieman) 4. Will Google Glass drown us in data? (The Verge) 5. Show More Summary
Will Mobile Education Arrive in the Developing World?
In developing countries, where smartphones and dependable cellular networks are still scarce, it's been difficult to gauge the real impact of the mobile education movement. But with the combination of different factors -- the adventShow More Summary
Tweets vs. Smoke Signals: How to Follow the Papal #Conclave
ROME - If you're on Twitter, #conclave has been one of the best places to follow news about the next leader of the world's 1.2 billion Catholics. On Tuesday evening Rome time, between start of the vote, and the inconclusive end to the...Show More Summary