YouTube launches Reporters’ Center
June 29, 2009
YouTube today launched a new resource to help people learn more about how to report the news today, called The YouTube Reporters’ Center.
Why news organizations can police comments and not get sued
February 10, 2009
In this video and transcript, David Ardia, the director of the Citizen Media Law Project at Harvard and the former assistant counsel for The Washington Post, explains Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act and how it provides wide-ranging immunity to website publishers for what goes on in their comments.
Add quote Bubbles to any video
December 1, 2008
Add Bubbles to any video with BubblePLY - and post it anywhere you wish!
Seven Myths of Innovation
July 16, 2008
Krisztine “Z” Holly, Vice Provost for Innovation and Executive Director of the USC Stevens Institute for Innovation, introduced “Seven Myths of Innovation” to newspaper editors at the Knight Leadership Conference this week. Read more »
Lessons From One Year of Blogging
July 15, 2008
Guest Post by Craig Stolz
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One year ago I launched this blog with a notion but no clue. The notion was that I wanted to make sense of the baffling, bad but somehow occasionally powerful stuff that was emerging under the aegis “Web 2.0.” [It has lately been usefully redubbed "social media"]. Read more »
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New ways to detect doctored photos
July 6, 2008
PBS reports on a “digital detective” inventing new ways to tell if photos have been faked. Watch the video of the story and then take the test: Examine nine photographs and guess if they are fake or real.
Seven Traits of Highly Effective Community Managers
June 17, 2008
Tish Grier says community managers “should understand people well and be good at creating and maintaining relationships and ability to create relationships, regardless of which tools are available.”
Running an Online Community Like a Political Campaign
May 27, 2008
Michelle Ferrer, who oversees the Daytona Beach News-Journal’s hyperlocal online community, MyTopiacafe.com, offers some pointers on managing online community on Poynter.org. Read more »
Inside a Citizen Journalism Newsroom
April 3, 2008
The Chi-Town Daily News shares its techniques for developing a corps of volunteer reporters and keeping them on track.
Front Porch Forum uses closed email forums
April 3, 2008
PBS MediaShift looks at the closed email forums run by Front Porch Forum in Burlington, Vermont.