Creating Technology for Social Change

This Week in Civic Media 10.22.10: HuffPo, CPI and Knight create non-profit investigative enterprise

From the Center

From our Friends/Fellow News Challenge winners

  • Big non-profit for investigative journalism created. HuffPo + Center for Public Integrity + Knight Found. funding http://cot.ag/9MFrCw
  • ProPublica Editor Paul Steiger Discusses Emerging Ethical Questions for Journalists http://cot.ag/9U4vPy
  • Knight Foundation awards Sunlight $1.2m for “National Data Apps”–data that affects everyday life http://cot.ag/as8Yut
  • If you want to read the world’s best job description and work for a great Cambridge startup, here: http://cot.ag/cTp3FI via @placeblogger
  • MIT CoLab’s roundup of responses to Malcolm Gladwell’s “revolution will not be tweeted” argument http://colabradio.mit.edu/?p=5797
  • How Useful Is Humanitarian Crowdsourcing? http://cot.ag/bhtYhH via @mobileactive
  • Ushahidi asks for solidarity on the 6-month anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon explosion http://cot.ag/b5kU6b
  • Great outsider breakdown of newspaper content costs http://cot.ag/cQIqUD via @pbsmediashift
  • BookBrewer Makes Major Self-Publishing Deal with Borders http://cot.ag/b1O0r9 Congrats, Dan

Evolution of Knight Fellowships

  • Q&A on how Knight Fellowships have necessarily morphed from sabbaticals into hands-on research http://cot.ag/abaDhJ

WaPo Disengages, Tribune gets smacked back, NYT only loses $4.3m

  • @techdirt: Washington Post Tells Reporters To Stop Engaging Readers On Twitter http://dlvr.it/7Fkc7
  • @Poynter: Blogger to Chicago Tribune’s John Kass: I don’t live with my parents or work in the basement. http://journ.us/d4viKH
  • @NickKristof: NYT Co. reports quarterly loss of $4.3 million. Better than last yr, but…. — http://nyti.ms/9cGGXi