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Community News Leadership 3.0

5 ways to use Slideshare to engage communities, build traffic

6/14/2013 | by: Amy Gahran

Community news, engagement, and information projects offer a wide range of content types, but so far few have done much with slide presentations. Slideshare, a popular social platform for publishing, sharing, and embedding presentations, may help you get more mileage and benefits from your photos, maps, videos, charts and other content -- as...

News for Digital Innovators

One in three U.S. adults owns a tablet, says Pew

6/11/2013 | by: Amy Gahran

Is your community news or information tablet friendly? With astounding speed, tablets have become a significant part of the mobile media landscape. It's been just three years since the first iPad hit the market, and now one third of U.S. adults now owns a tablet computer, according to a new report from Pew Internet.

OJR: The Online Journalism Review

Practicing journalism in the Galapagos, where “hyper-local” meets “hyper-sensitive”

6/14/2013

The islands are famous for their exotic species, but the dilemma that preys upon local media here is common to small-town journalists everywhere: how to pay the bills and still report on people who are also your neighbors.

Community News Leadership 3.0

Pew survey offers lessons for funders of nonprofit news start ups

6/9/2013 | by: Michele McLellan

Results of a newly released survey of 93 nonprofit news start ups underscores the need to build business capacity in the field. That's something supporting foundations and large donors should insist on.

News for Digital Innovators

Independent Publishers Group now has 100 members

6/5/2013 | by: Amy Gahran

This week, the Local Independent Online News Publishers group announced it has welcomed its 100th member.

GigaOm - Mathew Ingram

Five questions Edward Snowden didn’t answer during his live Q&A about NSA surveillance

6/17/2013

Edward Snowden, the former CIA staffer who recently leaked a trove of documents about an NSA surveillance program known as PRISM, hasn’t exactly been a shrinking violet since he provided the information last week:...

Knight Blog

Announcing 84 finalists in Detroit Knight Arts Challenge

6/17/2013

Above: In Detroit, a large-scale video projection in which an artist’s paintings are brought to life through animation features a nearly life-size whale. Photo credit: Dlectricity.

Knight Blog

What do women want? To create a better Internet, says AOL CEO

6/17/2013

Nieman Journalism Lab

Know code, and want to know news? Apply for a Knight-Mozilla Fellowship

6/17/2013

My second favorite journalism fellowship program (behind only the Nieman Fellowships, of course) has opened up for applications again, and if you think you’re qualified, you should

MediaShift

Daily Must Reads, June 17, 2013

6/17/2013

1. Big news forges its own path (NYT) 2. Facebook releases data, including all NSA requests (Facebook Newsroom) 3. Results of the Women in Media Project, so far (New Matilda) 4. Can Buzzfeed be stopped? (TechCrunch) 5. Two ways to excel in political journalism: No politics or some politics (PressThink) 6. Can local news take on a...

MediaShift

How Do We Make Freelance Journalism Sustainable?

6/17/2013

Last month the Chicago Sun Times fired its entire staff of photographers -– 28 full-time journalists — and plans to rely primarily on freelancers. This news is just the most recent in a growing trend across the news industry, which is relying more than ever before on independent journalists and freelancers. However, despite all the...

Socialbrite

Building a loyal Facebook fan base

6/17/2013

The key differences between nonprofits and for-profits

Target audience: Nonprofits, cause organizations, foundations, NGOs, social enterprises, small businesses, general public.

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5 ways to use Slideshare to engage communities, build traffic

One in three U.S. adults owns a tablet, says Pew

Practicing journalism in the Galapagos, where “hyper-local” meets “hyper-sensitive”

Pew survey offers lessons for funders of nonprofit news start ups

Independent Publishers Group now has 100 members

Five questions Edward Snowden didn’t answer during his live Q&A about NSA surveillance

Announcing 84 finalists in Detroit Knight Arts Challenge

What do women want? To create a better Internet, says AOL CEO

Know code, and want to know news? Apply for a Knight-Mozilla Fellowship

Daily Must Reads, June 17, 2013

How Do We Make Freelance Journalism Sustainable?

Building a loyal Facebook fan base

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