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The Media Deserts Project, part of the Media Deserts/News Oasis Project
1. What do you propose to do? We’re using GIS tools to create a “climate” map that tracks changes in the reach and depth of community news. 2. Is anyone doing something like this now and how is your...
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Lessons From Time, Inc.’s Assignment Detroit for Hyperlocal Operators
Buy a house in the “inner city”. Drop in a reporter to live for a year. Sounds like a recipe for a reality show. But this is the script that Time, Inc. used to launch its Assignment Detroit project...
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Changing the Language of Journalism Work
So I’m here in Denver at the Journalism That Matters gathering April 3-4, 2013 around the question “What’s possible when old embodiments of journalism die and its spirit is free to take new forms?”...
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The case for government investment in journalism, a manifesto
At the end of this discourse, someone will accuse me of fouling my own nest. That’s if you ever even see this commentary, printed or online in what used to be called the local newspaper. Regardless, it...
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Liveblogging: L. Hunter Lovins Urges Action on Sustainability at Elon University
MichelleAlf @hlovins “There’s a lot of gas down there…but it will run out.” #EarthDay #ElonCOM110 BrianTLorello Apr 22, 8:45pm via HootSuite “It is finite. It will run out.” @hlovins #eloncom110...
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Hyperlocal Online News Sites: Are They Meeting Community News and Information...
The rise of online news sites in the past seven years has been one response to the changing legacy daily newspaper environment and the relative simplicity of online publishing technologies. However,...
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Shakeups at AOL’s Patch Alter Hyperlocal News Landscape
The layoffs at AOL’s Patch sites across the country are altering the hyperlocal news landscape, and Ohio University’s Dr. Michelle Ferrier is tracking those changes using an open wiki at...
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AOL Patch Insiders Know How to Build It Better
The post mortems have already begun on AOL’s Patch, the hyperlocal online news network that recently announced sale of its majority interest to turnaround firm Hale Global. While the pundits have cited...
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Too big to fail? AOL Patch tried ‘land grab’
Between August 2013 and January 2014, I interviewed more than a dozen current and former employees of AOL Patch. Their stories form the basis of this case study on the AOL Patch hyperlocal online news...
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Culture Clash: AOL Patch Editors Despair Over Diluted News Mission
Between August 2013 and December 2013, I interviewed more than a dozen current and former employees of AOL Patch. Their stories form the basis of this case study on the hyperlocal online news network...
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The Trouble with Trolls on Twitter
Dear Twitter, Hi. I’m @mediaghosts, also Firenza Mavinelli in Second Life. But I digress. I hear you have a problem with trolls. I wonder if this is like the trouble with Tribbles on that Star Trek...
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The Trouble with Trolls on Twitter
Dear Twitter, Hi. I’m @mediaghosts, also Firenza Mavinelli in Second Life. But I digress. I hear you have a problem with trolls. I wonder if this is like the trouble with Tribbles on that Star Trek...
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The Trouble with Trolls on Twitter
Dear Twitter, Hi. I’m @mediaghosts, also Firenza Mavinelli in Second Life. But I digress. I hear you have a problem with trolls. I wonder if this is like the trouble with Tribbles on that Star Trek...
View ArticleA Letter to Ida B. Wells on the Pulitzer Prize and her Legacy
Dr. Michelle Ferrier March 5, 2020 Dear Ms. Ida B. Wells-Barnett, I was so THRILLED to hear that you were honored Monday with a Pulitzer Prize for your tenacious and courageous journalism work! Of...
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