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In case anyone reading this is interested, the Newspaper Department at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, Syracuse University, seeks an experienced journalist with strong multimedia skills to join a department committed to preserving core journalistic competencies while teaching students to tell stories in online media. Work in [...]
Recently, I learned from Joshua Landis' Syria Comment, my main source for news and analysis concerning Lebanon's eastern neighbor, that Google has blocked the use of its new web browser, Chrome, in Syria.
A quick Google search turned up a post by Syrian blogger Yaser Sadeq with an [...]
BusinessWeek's Los Angeles Bureau Chief Ron Grover reports:
In perhaps Hollywood’s worst kept secret, Steven Spielberg’s newly created studio is signing a distribution arrangement with NBC Universal to distribute as many as six films a year. Spielberg, along with producing partner Stacey Snider, left its three-year deal with Viacom's Paramount Pictures [...]
Here’s a little prediction that’s been spinning around my head lately. I’ll release it here on my blog to leave room in there for something else. 
As newspapers (especially the larger metros, which face the worst declines) continue to lose staff, lose ad revenues, and in [...]
Here’s a little prediction that’s been spinning around my head lately. I’ll release it here on my blog to leave room in there for something else.
As newspapers (especially the larger metros, which face the worst declines) continue to lose staff, lose ad revenues, and in [...]
e college and album-oriented FM stations, late [...] I have been co-hosting TECH cocktail events in local technology communities for over two and a half years now. In that time I have hosted events in Boulder, Boston, D.C. and Chicago. Recently, we hosted our first event on a college campus by hitting the road and heading down [...]
What does it mean to be truly literate with new media?
Certainly, it means more than the ability to send email and browse websites. Recent commentaries on new media literacy have emphasized the importance of the ability to analyze media critically and the ability to participate actively in online communities. Those [...]
Over the past couple of months I have been following a new African news portal, Africa News, the latest in the 12-year history of African online news media. Africa News goes much further than previous attempts to create online news communities serving Africa; the site includes content submitted [...]
Last week, we spoke at length with 42 Entertainment founder Elan Lee, who managed to break down in 10 minutes concepts that we had derived over the course of many months of debate.
Over a year ago as we pieced together our game conceptually, much of our time was spent scrutinizing [...]
