This Week in Civic Media 07.16.10: Center job opening, @digidave becomes a Reynolds Fellow
Andrew Whitacre
Communications Director
Andrew conducts the communications efforts for CMS (websites, press relations, and project and event publicity) as well as those for MIT's Center for Civic Media and the MIT Game Lab.
A native of Washington, D.C., he holds a degree in communication from Wake Forest University and an M.F.A. in creative writing from Emerson College. His marketing and P.R. skills were honed at Houghton Mifflin and Tufts University. He was also the long-time fiction editor for Identity Theory and followed up with a literary tool website, called Readsfeed.
This Week in Civic Media 07.16.10: Center job opening, @digidave becomes a Reynolds Fellow
Submitted by Andrew on July 16, 2010 - 9:48am
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From the Center
- "My job, let me show you it": @chrysaora tells you why you should apply for our Outreach Coordinator position http://cot.ag/9N2pcV
Friends of the Center
- Congrats to @digidave and five others on becoming '10-'11 Reynolds Fellows! http://www.rjionline.org/fellows-program/index.php
Future of Newspapers
- Mass. newspaper combating offensive commenters with one-time $0.99 charge and use of real names http://cot.ag/bNnbaB
- @Poynter: Gannett papers to add jobs for hubs. // Charles Apple says there are smart aspects to Gannett's plan. http://journ.us/cukqJ4
- Best of luck to Khoi Vinh, who's announced he's leaving his design director position at nytimes.com http://cot.ag/awvX43
Past of Newspapers
- Columbia U.'s Bollinger makes compelling ethical (if not technical) case for public funding of old-school journalism http://cot.ag/bVIuUo
Oil and Gas
- "For Gas-Drilling Data, There’s a New Place to Dig" http://cot.ag/cKl2p9 @propublica touts FracTracker
- Superb @pbsmediashift post from Ian Capstick: "5 Digital PR Lessons from BP's Oil Spill Response" http://cot.ag/cpv3kd
- If you missed it last week: Coast Guard assisting B.P. in keeping reporters away from affected areas http://cot.ag/cMBL2z
- @gaslandmovie: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (&RT) : Josh Fox responds word by word to claims in "DEBUNKING GASLAND" http://ow.ly/2ac9pvia
Data, Data Viz
- "Sunlight's Contextual Content & Data Stream" feature is pretty much all sorts of awesome http://cot.ag/arg4yf @EllnMllr
- Funding data indicates that, despite progressive stances on many issues, Barney Frank is captive to Wall Street http://cot.ag/cmQoOl
Elsewhere
- Great stuff: "Where Did We Go Right? How to Be a Successful Entrepreneur". CJ Connell via @PBSMediaShift http://cot.ag/9mKbhQ
- @mediatwit: Holy moly! Just got the nearly 500-page "Yahoo Style Guide" to online writing. Congrats to @chrisbarr http://bit.ly/9aCqBF
- Knight Foundation funds Lex Mundi to provide free legal support to social entrepreneurs http://cot.ag/cuY6Up
- MIT's Abelson helps Google bring apps-making to non-techies http://cot.ag/9YQHqA
