How Does the Internet Give You a Voice? Help Craig Newmark Celebrate Internet Freedom Day

  Posted by Craig New­mark on CraigConnects.org, Jan.9, 2013  Inter­net Free­dom Day, Jan­u­ary 18th, that’s a big deal. Folks, I want to know: how does the Inter­net give you a voice?  I’m col­lect­ing answers about how the Inter­net gives peo­ple a voice that I will share on Inter­net Free­dom Day next Jan­u­ary 18th. Here’s the deal: Write about how the Internet […]

Clark Kent Leaves Daily Planet for Cyberspace

Super­man, Clark Kent, resigns from the Daily Planet to become a blog­ger after argu­ing with the newspaper’s man­age­ment over the decline in seri­ous coverage.

Readers Can’t Trust Sites that Run Sloppy Copy

Susan older DisplacedJournalists.com news sites lose reader trust when they pub­lish errors and sloppy copy.

Underemployed dad tests “Rent a Journalist”

Dis­placed Jour­nal­ists: Under­em­ployed jour­nal­ist tries a new method — “Rent a Journalist.”

FIJ seeks grant proposals for investigative reporting

WASHINGTON (March 8, 2011) — The Fund for Inves­tiga­tive Jour­nal­ism (FIJ) is seek­ing grant pro­pos­als for inde­pen­dent inves­tiga­tive projects from jour­nal­ists who need sup­port for travel and other report­ing expenses. The dead­line for pro­pos­als is 5 p.m. EDT, April 11. FIJ is par­tic­u­larly inter­ested in pro­pos­als from reporters inves­ti­gat­ing issues in the United States, involv­ing governmental […]

CUNY’s Jeremy Caplan chats with media entrepreneur Elizabeth Spiers

Jeremy Caplan inter­views on video media entre­pre­neur Eliz­a­beth Spiers.

Reflections of a Newsosaur: Why the Daily will succeed – or not

By Alan D. Mut­ter Reflec­tions of a New­sosaur Mon­day, Jan. 31 2011 The Daily, which is set to launch this week, could be a cap­ti­vat­ing hit, a spec­tac­u­lar miss or some­thing in between. But one thing is sure: Rupert Mur­doch, the last swash­buck­ling pub­lisher of our time, will shake up the media world on Wednes­day when he […]

HOW TO: Back Up Your Social Media Presence Before the Ball Drops

By Brenna Ehrlich, Mash­able Remem­ber how we were all freak­ing out on New Year’s Eve, 1999, con­vinced that the world as we know it would end — at the hands of machines, of course? Well, we weath­ered that storm and then some. Still, as we sham­ble for­ward into the next decade, it might be prudent […]

WRITERS LIFEGUARD: Mantrae of Our Times

Way back when — in April, 2009 — I called Writ­ers Life­guard No. 16, “Mantrae for Our Times.” It had but four mark­ers of change: Screen is the new Paper Short is the new Deep Pic­tures are the new Words Free is the new Pay Now, more than a year fur­ther into our climb — or plunge — from Gutenberg […]

Travelwritten: A Travel Writer’s Guide to Self-Publishing on the Web

Trav­el­writ­ten is a how-to site and blog for travel writ­ers who want to become writer-publishers on the Web. Author Durant Imbo­den has been co-owner, pub­lisher and edi­tor of Europe for Vis­i­tors for nine years. He was with MSN, About.com, and other online com­pa­nies from 1995 until 2001. By Durant Imbo­den, Europe for Vis­i­tors The Time­ses, they […]

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