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The New York Times “First Draft” and Politico Playbook picked up the “Meerkat Election” idea today, so get ready for the hype cycle to wash through the commentariat. Former Florida governor Jeb Bush “meerkatted” yesterday — which is to say, used an app integrated with Twitter on his smartphone to livestream an event online. If…
Source: en.wikipedia.org Added March 18, 2015 at 7:35 a.m. OUR SOURCES US sets new record for denying, censoring government files US sets new record for denying federal files under Freedom of Information Act Close We actually do have a lot to brag about. – Josh Earnest White House spokesman According to the AP, the government…
Chris Martino/Flickr Civil liberties advocates are adding another strike to the Obama administration’s record on transparency: on Monday, the White House announced that it is officially ending the Freedom of Information Act obligations of its Office of Administration. That office provides broad administrative support to the White House—including the archiving of emails—and had been subject…
Last week, the place I’ve called my online home for over five years — a site that has been one of the leading tech blogs ever since my friend Om Malik started it in the Starbucks at the corner of Clay and Battery in San Francisco in 2006 — suddenly shut down. Gigaom was always…
Most millennials don’t seek out news on social media, but the vast majority of them get news from social networks once they see it there, according to a report released today by the Media Insight Project, a collaboration between the American Press Institute and the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. Only 47 percent…
Whisper shut down its news division after <em>The</em> <em>Guardian’s</em> misreported story, leaving four people unemployed. Photo: Shutterstock Back in October, The Guardian published a juicy multipart feature on Whisper, an anonymous secret-sharing app that the paper said was harvesting private data without users’ consent. The series of stories alleged that Whisper tracked “anonymous” users and that it…
We are excited to announce the release of PressForward 3.5, the latest version of our free WordPress plugin for collecting, discussing, and sharing online scholarship. This latest release includes significant updates and changes to the user interface, new features and enhancements, and a few bug fixes–all designed to make best practices for sharing online content easier…
BlendleThe Blendle iPad app. Blendle, an exciting Dutch startup that has attracted 200,000 users in the region to a platform that lets readers make micropayments for individual newspaper and magazine articles rather than having to sign up to monthly digital subscriptions, has just got even more exciting. The New York Times (which is also an…
Columbia Graduate School of Journalism to reduce enrollment, cut about six positions Steve Coll, dean of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, tells colleagues: “We believe it’s best for the school to return to a smaller student body size” after years of expansion, and “with regret, I’ve reached the conclusion that we must eliminate…
by Melody Kramer Published Mar. 10, 2015 8:00 am Updated Mar. 10, 2015 1:01 pm How do you convince people to care about a local, municipal primary election in a city with historically-low voter turnout? That’s the question KPCC’s managing editor Kristen Muller posed to science reporter Sanden Totten as they were planning KPCC’s coverage of the…