A shiny new NPR.org revealed itself Monday with a simpler homepage design packed with multimedia features and customizable choices.
Like most major media websites still afloat, NPR.org aims to keep radio content its core but offer up multi-platform, all-purpose news.
The new site is a major improvement to its tightly-fonted,...
Continue ReadingGuest post by Alan Haburchak
The morning of day two here at the Personal Democracy Forum conference was all about online communities, what they mean, how they can be used and what they say about culture and global culture and society today. Randi Zuckerberg (the other Zuckerberg), Facebook's head of marketing was up first and talked a little bit about how communities have arisen on on Facebook that have lead to real-life movements like the anti-farc protests that occurred in Colombia last year....
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Guest post by Jessica Rudis
Two of the biggest announcements made at PDF this year complement each other in an interesting way. The first announcement, made on Monday, was that YouTube had launched a reporting center that teaches citizen journalists skills to improve the quality of their reporting. ...
Continue ReadingGuest post by Alan Haburchak
It seems like there is a certain generally accepted truth about age and ideology in America: Young people are liberal and vote Democratic while the older generation tends to trend more conservative. There's even that old chestnut usually attributed to Winston Churchill: "If you're young and not a liberal you have no heart,...
Continue ReadingThose of us familiar with rat race involved in nabbing a coveted internship at a well-known news organization know all too well the pressure of stacking your best clips, skills and assets against a sea of competitors.
Those who do get through are usually more than grateful to be working for that news organization for free,...
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