One news experiment that actually aims to make a profit while generating original news is GlobalPost, an online international news source with original reporting from in-country correspondents around the world. Founded by Phil Balboni, creator of the successful New England Cable News, the prototype regional CNN television news service, GlobalPost […]
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Our friend Thomas Lowenhaupt of Connecting.nyc Inc. writes: With the arrival of the .nyc TLD (like .com and .org but just for New York City), we’ll will soon have the capacity to create neighborhood media centers such as astoria.nyc, brooklyn-heights.nyc, clinton.nyc, greenwich-village, harlem.nyc, etc. Come hear about this new development […]
How this experiment in non-profit investigative journalism is working, and whether it signals a new model for news. Funded by a rich couple from California, ProPublica aims to replace the investigative heft that is leaving the media landscape as newspapers depart. Funded by the Sandler Foundation, the MacArthur Foundaction, and […]
How this experiment in non-profit investigative journalism is working, and whether it signals a new model for news. Funded by a rich couple from California, ProPublica aims to replace the investigative heft that is leaving the media landscape as newspapers depart. Funded by the Sandler Foundation, the MacArthur Foundaction, and […]
Witness uses DIY video and online technologies to open the eyes of the world to human rights violations. For this lecture, we welcome Witness Program Director Sam Gregory, a video producer, trainer, and human rights advocate. As Henry Jenkins wrote of him, “Gregory’s comments about the strengths and limitations of […]