The Associated Press and Google have announced the first recipients of a new national scholarship program targeted at college students whose innovative projects exemplify the new journalist in the digital media age. The Online News Association, the world’s largest membership organization of digital journalists, administers the program.
April Fool’s turns into March Media Madness
Already venerable media institutions are pulling pranks and being snookered by them. It’s a variation of “anniversary creep” — running anniversary stories a week early in order to “scoop” the competition and get a head start on SEO. Just like Christmas decorations start showing up around Halloween, media 9-11 anniversary stories start appearing in August, [...]
State of the News Media 2012: Tech companies ‘control the future of news’
Technology companies such as Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple “now control the future of news.” That’s one of the take-aways from the 2012 State of the News Media report, released today by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism. The news industry, the report says, “finds itself more a follower than leader shaping its business.”
The 7 Best Ways To Follow #SXSW From Home
In the next week thousands of digital media entrepreneurs, executives, investors and geeks are descending on Austin for SXSW Interactive, what many refer to as “Spring Break for Geeks.” The event is a series of more than 5,000 panels, keynotes and parties that cover every topic you could possibly imagine. Here is a column I wrote [...]
