The Changing Voice of News
In the early part of the 20th century, radio programs reached national audiences through newly-constructed radio networks. For the first time, mass media news had a human voice – and later with...
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A Brief History of Hyperlocal News
The term "Hyperlocal" generally refers to community-oriented news content typically not found in mainstream media outlets and covering a geographic region too small for a print or broadcast market to...
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Social Media Meet-Up at WBUR
On the evening of Thursday, February 5th, WBUR in Boston will be hosing their sixth (seventh?) monthly informal gathering at the station. WBUR regularly convenes the Boston social media community for...
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An Open Conversation on Hyperlocal News
Following a recent post and discussion on hyperlocal news, WBUR was kind enough to let me initiate an open discussion on the topic during their monthly meetup at the station. Around 15 people...
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Understanding Local Communication Needs
Internet solutions appear wherever finding, connecting, and sharing information with others is expensive or difficult. This is especially noticeable when individuals with similar interests but...
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NPRbackstory in the News
My NPRbackstory experiment got some press this week when Josh Benton from Harvard's Neiman Journalism Lab published an in-depth piece on the utility. Josh and I had discussed the project last fall,...
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Most of the blogging work I've done over the last several months has been around NPR's local news efforts.In Beyond the Blog, I point out some interesting places where Gawker Media's new proposed...
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Using Prediction Markets to Follow Election News
There are scores of news sources covering the elections, but which provide us with a clear picture of how things are progressing, especially when so many sources these days rely on sensationalism or...
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