Community publishers: Look ahead, get ready to make mobile money

This Friday at the Block by Block Community News Summit, I'll be giving a talk on how community news publishers can earn money in mobile media.

The good news is, there's much that you can do right now to position your news outlet well for mobile revenue streams. The bad news is, the actual amount of money you're likely to earn from mobile in the short term is slim.

Still there's a very good reason to get started with mobile now, even though you'll have to wait a bit for the serious money to follow: You want to keep having an audience, right?...

New Orleans plants the seeds of a new news landscape with community foundation support

Changes in the media landscape of New Orleans likely foreshadow what is coming to other communities and may help clarify the important role that community foundations can play in fostering healthy information flows locally.

Voto Latino: Promoting civic engagement through cell phones

This week, as Americans are glued to their TVs to watch the Democratic National Congress, one nonprofit organization is using cell phones to motivate young Latinos to vote...