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News Leadership 3.0
August 29, 2010
Diversity challenged? Grow your network
The new public editor for The New York Times published his first column Sunday. Arthur S. Brisbane looks well qualified for the job, and I wish him well. Still, my jaw dropped in astonishment when his appointment was announced. Like his three predecessors, Brisbane is a white guy. How can it be, I wonder, that an organization with the reach of the Times, cannot find a woman or a person of color qualified to be its public editor?
OJR: The Online Journalism Review
September 01, 2010
What can journalism schools learn from watching the University of Colorado?
By Robert Niles: Last week, news reports hit that the University of Colorado at Boulder would close its journalism school. By the end of the afternoon, the story had morphed a bit - CU wouldn't be getting out of journalism education, but instead convening a commission to look at restructuring the school, putting its future as a separate entity in ...
September 01, 2010
OpenBlock launches demo site for Boston
On Aug. 26, the OpenBlock project launched its first demo site, serving the Boston area in partnership with the Boston Globe.
This project is the open-source successor to EveryBlock, a Knight News Challenge-funded project that was acquired by MSNBC one year ago. OpenBlock is “an open-source software initiative to bring hyperlocal news and data capabilities to news organizations of all sizes.”
Here’s how this project could benefit all news organizations…
August 31, 2010
Is transparency the new objectivity? Spot.us community speaks out
Objectivity, once viewed as the key attribute of mainstream journalism, is increasingly seen as unlikely or at best secondary in importance to journalistic transparency, according to a survey of the online community for open-source crowdfunded reporting project Spot.Us...
Upcoming workshops at KDMC@USC Annenberg
| Leadership and Professional Growth for Digital Journalists |
June 30 - December 31, 2010 Knight-McCormick Leadership InstituteKDMC@USC will provide tailored, expenses-paid professional development services to 20 top newsroom leaders |
October 3 - October 7, 2010 Knight Community Info Challenge Boot CampAn invitation-only conference for Challenge winners (www.infoneeds.org) |
Upcoming workshops at KDMC@UC Berkeley
| Multimedia Story Telling and Technology Training |
December 12 - December 17, 2010 Interactive Census WorkshopLearn to create cutting-edge interactive census graphics |
January 9 - January 14, 2011 Multimedia Reporting and Convergence WorkshopIntensive training that covers all aspects of multimedia news production. |
KDMC Digital Partners
- J-Lab, August 9, 2010
Apply now for ten $5,000 awards for collaborative enterprise reporting in the Philadelphia region - J-Lab, August 9, 2010
View video and photos from the AEJMC Networked Journalism luncheon - J-Lab, August 8, 2010
David Carr to keynote the 2010 Knight-Batten Awards and Symposium for Innovations in Journalism
- KCNN, August 9, 2010
Lessons Every News Site Can Learn from TBD’s Launch - KCNN, June 17, 2010
Outside-the-Box Community Engagement - KCNN, June 2, 2010
Things We Like: Grassroots Mapping
- KCJA, August 30, 2010
Venezuelans conclude online Knight Center course about electoral coverage - KCJA, August 3, 2010
Brazil’s Abraji has grown into one of the world's top investigative journalism groups - KCJA, July 23, 2010
Knight Center teaches Math for Journalists course
- TOJ, August 24, 2010
New York Times seeks multimedia journalism interns - TOJ, August 18, 2010
A fresh look at reporting skills - TOJ, August 15, 2010
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Knight Community Info Challenge Boot Camp
The Knight Digital Media Center sponsored a five-day boot camp for 22 fellows from organizations that won the 2010 Knight Community Information Challenge and received Knight Foundation funding to start or expand community news or information projects. The boot camp was intended to jump start their efforts, with experts speaking on topics that included social media, Web metrics, project planning, and Web site development and evaluation. Many of the presentations and discussions are available in video.
Twitter Roll Call
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@NeimanLabNiemanLab: How social data built a better health care app: @digiphile guest-posts at @mashable http://nie.mn/bxM0p1 |
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@knightfdnFormer British Prime Minister Gordon Brown Joins World Wide Web Foundation?s Board of Directors http://bit.ly/cWywpu |
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