Online News Association Offers Social Media Journalism-Camp
The Online News Association (ONA) is offering a new two-day series of panels called J-Camp where leading experts from Google News, Facebook, and Twitter will teach journalists both the basics and more advanced aspects of social media. The camp features hour-long panels filled with some impressive representatives from the technology space. Speakers include Erica Anderson, manager of [...]
Read MoreDominick Brady Talks Online Media, Tech, and Journalism [Interview]
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Dominick Brady is an independent multi-platform journalist based in Atlanta, Georgia. He has spent the majority of his career working with online content on the web doing a number of things such as web design, radio documentary, audio and video features just to name a few. Check out some of his thoughts on online media, [...]
Read MoreNon Profit Tech Company Ushadhidi Wins Knight News Challenge
The Knight Foundation, a non-profit entity that is one of the biggest funders of media-related projects in the United States announced the winners of its annual $4.7-million News Challenge, one of them a being an African American led team from non profit tech company Ushahidi. Ushahidi, which means testimony in Swahili, specializes in developing free and open source [...]
Read MoreOpinion: HBCUs Falling Behind in Digital Media
Technology and social media have become the driving force in just about all businesses, but most likely have affected the media industry the most. Social and multimedia are changing the way society consumes news, therefore it only makes sense the way media is taught in our schools be changed too. Communications at universities recognize the need for new [...]
Read MoreWhat Journalism Can Learn from Zimbabwe
There are a million and one reasons why micro-payments won’t save journalism, but ultimately the most obvious is that we are living in a time where there’s an over-abundance of news media. Think about it, where did you watch the Obama Inauguration? Did you watch it on CNN, BBC, SkyNews, Al-Jazeera, Fox News, MSNBC or [...]
Read MoreA Troubled Marriage: Journalism and Blogging
The crux of professional journalism is the first amendment of the constitution, enabling the freedom of speech and the freedom of the press. As with most interpretations, the definition of this fact is slanted with the ubiquity of perspective the internet provides. Blogging and its popularity is the quintessential example, and most bloggers just want [...]
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