: This week’s biggest news is happening right now, as Facebook goes public after months of buildup. There were plenty of developments this week leading up to Facebook’s IPO, most of them not particularly good for Facebook. We’ll start with one pos...
In the tech world, it’s the glossy customer-facing companies — Apple, Google, Instagram — that steal headlines. The stable and steady brands that power the world’s electronics often go overlooked. If Intel, the$54B semiconductor chip company that ...
The explosion of mobile content creation and sharing has enabled journalists all over the world to upload and broadcast news immediately, wherever it’s happening. But citizen journalists and freelancers on the ground at a news event rarely are pai...
Ahoy there, blogarinos! For those of you participating in Blogathon 2012, I salute you—you’re 20 days deep into one of the most rewarding blog challenges on the Interwebs. You’re probably exhausted, but your blog muscles are getting stronger, your...
Dear Steve, I was thinking of getting a lower back tattoo of Hillary Clinton, only with her playing guitar and with her face painted as the Starchild character from Kiss. Awesome or what? STEP ONE I’m going to be honest, I think you’re trying too ...
Vyclone for iPhone brings collaborative video clips from multiple users shooting at the same event. It allows users to hook-up with others and will edit the results together into a 60-second clip. A new video-sharing app for iPhone will connect us...
A new biography of Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee has caused a sensation with its revelations about Watergate. Lee Siegel on the perilous relationship between biographer and subject—and reactions from biographers of Steve Jobs, V.S. Naipaul, a...
Jay Rosen, media critic and professor of journalism, on the shift in power between new and old media. Post your comments on the Search Engine blog at: http://www.tvo.org/s
Further to articles from John Prescott (For me, life is Tweet, 16 May) and Charles Arthur (What a lot of characters, 16 May), I feel I should point out the glaringly obvious but unstated conclusion. Twitter offers a remarkable opportunity for anyo...
“Boy was I ever important,” New York Times columnist David Carr declared during his Internet Week keynote. That’s when the newspaper’s presses – located one floor below — would come to life after he had submitted an important scoop, “and you would...
British newspaper the Times of London has an exclusive story on the private pastimes of UK Prime Minister David Cameron. The story — running at the top of the site right now, over other big stuff like Greece and the Facebook IPO — is an excerpt of...
Friday's panel on 'Future of Media' pretty was pretty much a microcosm for the entirety of Internet Week, as media professionals gathered to dissect the changing media landscape and the uncertainty of the future for the industry. A diverse panel, ...
In the last decade British newspapers have seen ad revenues tumble from $7.6 billion to $4.6 billion, according to figures from Carat, the Sunday Times reports today.The paper also says British newspapers have seen their share of total marketing s...
Last week we told you about easel.ly for creating beautiful infographics in your browser, but we had a few gripes — it didn’t let you manipulate data or change color schemes, two things that are vital to custom infographics. Infogr.am, also a tool...
My most recent Forbescolumn is entitled, “We All Hate Advertising, But We Can’t Live Without It.” It’s my attempt to briefly (a) defend the role advertising has traditionally played in sustaining news, entertainment, and online service, and (b) di...
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With the future of journalism up for grabs, Investigating Power reminds us in high-definition why the world needs courageous people to produce original, independent, investigative reporting.McCarthyis
PrintPublished April 13, 2012The Narrative Arc Conference, hosted by Boston University College of Communication and co-sponsored by the Poynter Institute, brought together the best nonfiction writers, teachers and editors in the country March 23-2...
Audio for this story from Morning Edition will be available at approx. 9:00 a.m. ET Tina Brown, editor of The Daily Beast and Newsweek,tells us what she's been reading in a feature that Morning Editionlikes to call "Word of Mouth." This month, Bro...
Jeremy Hobson: Well speaking of Apple, it's being sued by the federal government. The Department of Justice is accusing Apple and five publishers fixing prices for electronic books, or e-books. Three of the publishers have already settled. Hobson:...
We are living in an age of information obesity – or ‘infobesity’, to borrow from MRS Conference keynote Magnus Lindkvist. Consumers are bombarded with an unprecedented level of information thanks to the growth of digital media; an amount far beyon...
