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News Leadership 3.0
March 21, 2010
Community Information Challenge Boot Camp: Liveblog, video stream
This week, the Knight Digital Media Center @ USC Annenberg is hosting a boot camp for local news and information projects funded via Knight Foundation’s Community Information Challenge. Representatives of several place-based foundations will be learning and brainstorming on how to launch and run local projects under this initiative.
KDMC will be liveblogging this event today through March 25. Here’s the liveblog, and also information on our live video stream of some bootcamp events…
OJR: The Online Journalism Review
March 19, 2010
For many, the local newspaper isn't dying - it's already dead
By Robert Hernandez: The doomsday scenario has been on everyone's mind, including some at SXSWi, since the revenue/circulation has dropped through the floor and the brilliant mind of Clay Shirky articulated "thinking the unthinkable."
The scenario, in short, is what will happen to a city when the last major newspaper dies?
Who covers our city? Who
...News for Digital Journalists
March 16, 2010
Hunger in the Golden State: New multimedia investigative series
Thoughout California and across the US, hunger is rising at an unprecedented rate, even in affluent areas. Beginning March 19, a special multimedia series from the USC Annenberg School for Journalism & Communication and California Watch (a project of the Center for Investigative Reporting) will spotlight this often invisible problem.
March 15, 2010
New Pew Report: State of the News Media 2010
How bad was 2009 for the mainstream news business? The State of the News Media 2010 report just published by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism paints a generally bleak picture…
Upcoming workshops at KDMC@USC Annenberg
| Leadership and Professional Growth for Digital Journalists |
May 16 - May 21, 2010 News Entrepreneur Boot Camp 2010Twenty digital entrepreneurs will get intense instruction, coaching and mentoring on developing marketable business plans. |
July 1 - December 31, 2010 Transformative Leadership InstituteKDMC@USC will provide tailored, expenses-paid professional development services to 20 top newsroom leaders—help us find them! |
Upcoming workshops at KDMC@UC Berkeley
| Multimedia Story Telling and Technology Training |
March 21 - March 26, 2010 Web Publishing Skills for Independent Journalists |
May 16 - May 21, 2010 Multimedia Storytelling WorkshopIntensive short course multimedia training for mid-career journalists. |
KDMC Digital Partners
- NMWE, January 5, 2010
New Grants for Women Media Entrepreneurs - J-NewVoices, January 5, 2010
Apply Now: Grants for Community News Startups - NMWE, January 1, 2010
New Entrepreneurs: New Perspectives on News
- KCNN, February 18, 2010
A New Non-profit News Site Mirrors Others - KCNN, January 4, 2010
2010 New Media Trends - KCNN, January 2, 2010
Things We Like: MinnPost’s Real Time Ads
- KCJA, March 15, 2010
Knight Center again offering online Portuguese course, 'Introduction to Computer Assisted Reporting' - KCJA, March 3, 2010
'Digital Tools for Journalists' book now available in Portuguese - KCJA, March 5, 2010
Applications now accepted for new Knight Center course, 'Journalism 2.0 for Instructors'
- TOJ, March 14, 2010
Portrait of a great communicator - TOJ, March 10, 2010
21 examples of Flash journalism - TOJ, February 28, 2010
Spending time with Los Angeles homicides
FEATURED SEMINAR
Knight Community Info Challenge Boot Camp
The Knight Digital Media Center is sponsoring 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 is intended to jump start their efforts with experts speaking on topics that include social media, Web metrics, project planning, and Web site development and evaluation. Many of the presentations and discussions will be webcast live.
Twitter Roll Call
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March 22, 9:57am @jayrosen_nyu"There is no distributed trust solution to be had; trust is contextual" -- a post by @alevin: http://jr.ly/yafx |
March 21, 10:47pm @SusanMernitsusanmernit: 216...let the future begin #thrilled |
March 22, 9:09am @knightfdnRT @ibarguen £30m in Digital Britain for a Web Science Inst. Nigel Shadbolt and Tim Berners-Lee key advisors. http://ow.ly/1pizo |
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