As news production and consumption evolves with its technology, ethics are also bound to change form. The Online News Association is tackling this with a crowdsourced ethics code project: Build Your Own Ethics Code, publicly presented for the first time this week by the project manager, Associated Press Standards Editor Tom Kent, is ready for your input.
Measuring the impact of work by community journalism startups and public media newsrooms is important. We're beginning to develop ways to actually do that. They will be the focus of a free KDMC Webinar May 13.
In local news, people looking for a magic model might do better by appreciating the mess. Experimentation, messy as it is - is key to the evolution in local news.
A new survey of online local news sites offers room for optimism: More than 60 percent of the publishers responding said they increased their revenues in 2013 over 2012.
Got a hot idea related to media, data, or information? Need funding or other support to bring it from concept to demo? The next deadline to apply for the Knight Prototype Fund is May 1.
Web and social media metrics are crucial for gauging how well you're reaching your community. The catch is, metrics tools generally were not designed with community publishers in mind. On April 24, a free KDMC webinar will show how community publishers can use two popular metrics tools to serve their unique goals.
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