A one-man media operation that is devoted to reporting on news affecting the Jersey Shore area is another great example of a non-professional journalist stepping in to fill the needs of… Read more »
The day that US Airways Flight 1549 crash-landed in the Hudson river was a turning point for Twitter, says co-founder Jack Dorsey — the moment when it became obvious that it… Read more »
As with so many other news events, there was plenty of speculation and misinformation flowing on Twitter about the crash of an airplane at San Francisco airport — but for better… Read more »
Twitter may not want to be seen as a media entity, but when news breaks and traditional media outlets are not around — as in Texas and Turkey — it quickly… Read more »
The Chicago Sun-Times’ decision to lay off its entire staff of 28 photographers was widely criticized as a knee-jerk response by clueless managers, but the fact remains that newspaper cost structures… Read more »
Eliot Higgins, an unemployed British blogger with no military background, has become a crucial source of information about illegal weapons being used in Syria for both human-rights organizations and traditional journalists. Read more »
How’s this for tearing things up? A big TV news agency is tapping citizen video journalists as producers, Reddit users as editors and YouTube as financiers, for a new online journalism… Read more »
Could a mobile app have rooted out #FakeSandy storm images that ruffled so many feathers? Scoopshot thinks it can, but others say editors must rely on human research to validate UGC… Read more »
Glocal wants to become the Hulu for local news and entertainment content, and help local publishers earn more money than on YouTube. That’s ambitious – but it’s also a good reminder… Read more »
Despite all the gloom in the newspaper business, which he says will likely still have to suffer more pain and possible bankruptcies, New York Times media writer David Carr says he… Read more »