Technology

Playing the News Moves Into the Classroom

RELATED ARTICLE“News-Focused Game Playing: Is It a Good Way to Engage People in an Issue?”– Nora Paul and Kathleen A. Hansen What we learned in our Knight News Challenge grant…
June 14, 2010
Kathleen A. Hansen

YouTube’s Ecosystem for News

‘Our users innovate at an extraordinary pace and in ways that amaze us, make our world more transparent, and change the way we consume information and are informed.’
June 14, 2010
Steve Grove

Twitter: Can It Be a Reliable Source of News?

‘I came to understand that there is a science to this quest for creating the right network. It’s an empirical process, one that requires lots of time and thought and…
June 14, 2010
Janic Tremblay

Establishing a Digital Value for Watchdog Reporting

‘Our impulse as digital journalists is to innovate—and this means finding stories that aren’t being covered by other news media in Baltimore and doing what we can to illuminate them…
June 14, 2010
Stephen Janis

For a Start-up, Machine-Generated Stories Are the Name of the Game

For a partner in a start-up specializing in stories written by machines, the only downside to attracting coverage in Bloomberg Businessweek was the headline: “Are Sportswriters Really Necessary?”“We want to…
June 14, 2010
Jan Gardner

Summer 2010: Introduction

Explore the emerging realms of digital territory where news and information reside—or will soon. It’s a place where game playing thrives and augmented reality tugs at possibilities. It’s where video…
June 14, 2010
Melissa Ludtke

Meditating on the Conventions and Meaning of Photography

RELATED ARTICLE“Failing to Harness the Web’s Visual Promise“– Fred RitchinFred Ritchin’s book “After Photography” is a rich stew of memoir, history (remember the darkened image of O.J. Simpson on the…
March 30, 2010
Jan Gardner
Agent Orange: Pressing the Government to Take Responsibility

Agent Orange: Pressing the Government to Take Responsibility

Words and photographs by Wendy Watriss.
March 30, 2010
Wendy Watriss

Photojournalism in the New Media Economy

Success will depend on ‘seeing oneself as a publisher of content and a participant in a distributed story, the form of which helps reshape the content of the story.’
March 30, 2010
David Campbell

A Story Rooted in a Community Gives Voice to Its People

Ali Ahmed Ali was among a community of Yemeni sailors who lived in a boarding house in South Shields, Great Britain, between trips at sea. Photo by Peter Fryer.RELATED ARTICLE“Photojournalism…
March 30, 2010
David Campbell