Doing journalism at its most basic level is a combination of two essential tasks. The first is reporting — gathering information via research, interviews, etc. The...

I’m honored to be giving a keynote talk at Highway Africa, which has become the biggest annual gathering of African journalists and has a strong element of how...

Paul Grabowicz, head of new media at the UC-Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, forwards these job listings. Good money for 9 months work a year: Multimedia Fellow...

I had a call last week from a researcher for a big-name journalist, asking a question about the expression “citizen journalist”: I am primarily interested in...

Engadget, the electronics blog, has a detailed iPhone 3G review today. Good overall, but then, near the top, is this whopper: And its 3G network compatibility finally...

For the past several years I’ve been involved in a variety of projects ranging from education to startups. All have involved collaboration, and in most cases the...

I’ve been advising a San Francisco startup, Flowgram, where Abhay Parekh and his team have come up with a novel Web 2.0 idea. It’s a system that lets you...

The McClatchy Washington bureau series, Guantanamo: Beyond the Law, puts to shame almost all the other reporting by other news organizations. It’s falling through...

(This is the thirteenth in a series of postings about citizen media business issues. See the introduction here. All of these entries are considered to be in...

(This is the twelfth in a series of postings about citizen media business issues. See the introduction here. All of these entries are considered to be in...

Free Press and Public Knowledge have put out a report claiming that “NebuAd Wiretaps Consumers and Hijacks Web Sites.” Quote: Consumers are having their Web...

Take a look at the great “Video speech matching” project at TheyWorkForYou.com. They’re combining BBC video of the British House of Commons and official...