Next Wednesday the Master of Communication in Digital Media (MCDM) at UW will host an event to discuss how digital can save journalism. The panelists are well-respected journalists that have embraced digital tools and have succeeded in producing news in a whole new way and cultivating audiences. They run some of my favorite local news [...]

We (my MCDM classmates) been having a discussion in flipthtemedia.com on what we understand of the concept of media, and what is ‘flip’ the media. Although the discussion quickly turned to the practical application of the blog scope and it’s organization, there were a few reactions from my classmates worthy of note, in particular John [...]

Through the many burned-by-blog-fire examples that Gillmor gives in his chapter “The Gates Come Down,” we get the sense that we are navigating through the waters of transformation of news media, very murky waters that is. The “new” news media is, on a good day, very transparent; on a bad day, an untangled yarn [...]