What jobs can community news do?

Community news startups are part of the wave of disruptive innovation that's been overhauling journalism and the news industry. But how might they avoid the same fate plaguing many major daily news outlets? Harvard Business school professor Clayton M. Christensen recenly proposed that news outlets start looking for media jobs need that need doing in your community...

Election 2012: The First Data Election?

On Tuesday, October 30, the Knight Digital Media Center is offering a free online seminar, "Diving Into Data," focusing on the ways that news organizations and mission-driven organizations can use data effectively.  

We're entering an explosion in the level of interest in and participation in both consuming and creating data visualizations.  The web is studded with thousands of data repositories, where data is available for free downloads, and there's a burgeoning number of freely available tools to create data visualizations for the web, including tools aimed at entry-level users.   

It's a wonderful time for those of us who are interested in finding new ways to express information about complex topics in a simple, visual, and shareable way.  One great example of this is the huge variety of data visualizations about this year's US presidential election.  Here are a few examples...

Small site, big tools: Local nonprofit news site switches to Armstrong content management system

Charlottesville Tomorrow in Virginia was found its old Typepad blog platform very limited. Now the site has relaunched on Armstrong, a content management system designed for large nonprofit news sites.