“If you can’t make it important, it’s probably not worth doing”
Posted: May, 17, 2013
Interview by Karen Everhart and Dru Sefton
Journalism
New alliance in Mile High City
Posted: February, 01, 2013
By Dru Sefton
News, game-ified and powered by the crowd
Posted: October, 10, 2012
By Andrew Lapin
Pubcaster, college, for-profit news all meld in Macon
Posted: September, 24, 2012
By Andrew Lapin
WGBH’s Greater Boston goes nationwide on World Channel with bombing coverage
Posted: April 16, 2013Tonight’s special edition of Greater Boston from WGBH, focused on the shocking bomb blasts at Monday’s Boston Marathon, will be distributed nationally on the World Channel, the public TV multicast service produced by WGBH and distributed by American Public Television. … Continue reading
Speedskater Bridie Farrell brings story of abuse to Milwaukee Public Radio
Posted: April 5, 2013Milwaukee Public Radio host Mitch Teich could have predicted a few outcomes from his decision to take up speedskating — sore muscles, bruises from the occasional spill on the ice at high speed — but probably not the biggest story of his journalism career. Continue reading
Nova faulted for failing to disclose funder’s interest in drones
Posted: March 18, 2013A recent Nova documentary about unmanned aerial drones sparked a flurry of complaints from viewers upset by what the program’s producers didn’t say about development of the technology for military and other purposes: that Lockheed Martin, series underwriter and one of the country’s largest military contractors, is a developer of drone technology. Continue reading
Pubradio and TV audiences continue migration to digital, State of News Media study shows
Posted: March 18, 2013Audiences for public radio and television news continue to spend less time with legacy broadcast platforms as they transition to digital listening and viewing, according to the State of the News Media study from the Pew Research Center’s Project for … Continue reading
Panel urges IRS to revisit its ‘antiquated’ nonprofit rules
Posted: March 13, 2013Delays in conferring 501(c)3 status to startup nonprofit news organizations have stymied development of new models for producing community-based journalism, exacerbating the shortage of locally produced news coverage, according to a report released March 4 by the Nonprofit Working Group … Continue reading
Report: IRS needs to change “antiquated” approach to nonprofit news startups
Posted: March 4, 2013Taking too long to confer 501(c)3 status to startup nonprofit news organizations not only undervalues journalism but also has stymied new approaches to community journalism when they are needed most, according to a report released today by the Nonprofit Working … Continue reading
Latitude News meets Kickstarter goal to fund new weekly podcast
Posted: February 14, 2013Latitude News, an online news outlet exploring world events and their reverberating effects in local U.S. communities and vice versa, surpassed the fundraising goal of its Kickstarter campaign to launch a new podcast. As of Feb. 14, 307 backers had … Continue reading