HOW TO: Get retweeted on Twitter --; Getting retweeted on Twitter is a great way to gain more followers. It turns out there is a science behind getting retwe...

We';ve just completed the testing phase on Help Me Investigate and already there have been some valuable lessons. 2 in particular stand out as challenging so...

This week';s Leaderboard examines what good curation/ link journalism is all about. Link journalism seems so simple. It just some links and a little text. Not...

Friends, I regret to inform you that BeatBlogging.Org';s funding will be running out in about two months. It has been a great ride. We';ve chronicled a lot i...

Centenarians show it';s never too late to tweet — If someone 100 years old can use Twitter and social media, so can anyone. Hear that journalists: Three pe...

Twitter';s power only becomes apparent to new users once they get some followers and find worthwhile people to follow. Unfortunately, many people don';t know...

YouTube Mobile Uploads Up 400% Since iPhone 3GS Launch — We said that the iPhone 3G S was a game changer and early returns support that. The 3G S makes it ...

Our reporting is getting underway. In the meantime here are some local recycling tidbits to munch on from EcoGeek. The San Francisco Board of Supervisors pa...

Robert Quigley was recently named social media editor at the Austin American-Statesman. Yes, you read that correctly: a newspaper has a social media editor. ...

During the testing period of the site the investigation that has progressed furthest has been ';Help me investigate how much Good Hope Hospital makes from pa...

There';s a great post on Spinwatch which looks at the proposals to create ';news consortia'; to support local news. ";At the heart of serious reform of the m...

Above you';ll find Clay Shirky';s excellent TED talk about Twitter, social media and the Internet and how these technologies have forever changed media. ";As...

Flickr zaps photos: Bad for citizen journalism — This troubling report about a user being deleted (and all his photos) without warning isn';t good news for...

Mobile access far outpacing Internet access --; In low-income countries, Internet access grew 700% this decade, while mobile access grew 7000%. All around t...

Via the RinconHillNeigbors blog. Make an appointment to drop off your items at the Gigantic 3 Debris Boxes - call 415-330-1300 by June 18th to set an appoin...

I make every effort to be as open and available as possible. Occasionally I receive questions about how to start a nonprofit, advice on content management sy...

Note: The most important link is this Google Form where we are asking YOU for feedback/ goals/ etc. As always to stay more current on Spot.Us development check...

When you talk to news organisations about a concept like Help Me Investigate you inevitably get what I call the Digital Divide question: How do you make sure...

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A post I did for MediaShift';s IdeaLabl blog. I tend to avoid the ";professional vs. amateur journalism"; debate, saying ";I have constructive criticisms for...

The following is from Part Two of Yochai Benkler';s excellent book The Wealth of Networks. For me it summarises beautifully the importance of projects like H...

The news that Help Me Investigate was being funded by 4iP and Screen West Midlands was broken by the Media Guardian on Monday, which described it as a ";col...

Close followers may have picked up on the fact that I don';t like the term ";citizen journalism."; Yesterday professional mind blower Henry Jenkins put it in...

I bought stamps yesterday and as I left Safeway I had an epiphany which has long since passed. The following is an attempt to recapture it. Stamps are a funn...

Since putting together this idea I';ve been seeing potential investigation questions everywhere (it';s my hope that the same will happen to users). Here are ...

It';s finally been announced that my project Help Me Investigate is being funded by 4iP and Screen West Midlands. Help Me Investigate (HMI) is a pla...

Last week I went to Stanford';s Innovation Journalism conference. For this conference they invited lots of media makers and paired them up around topics to h...

Spot.Us is gearing up for our “Follow the Trash” pitch. As such we’ve done some pre-reporting. An interview with a plastics recycling activi...

Here are a few of the more interesting media mentions of Sunlight and our friends and allies from the week: Last Friday evening';s June 26th program, CNN'...

By Robert Niles: Newspaper columnists ought to be the perfect bloggers - the best write in a lively voice and forge a strong connection with their readers. T...

As ProPublica just pointed out on Twitter, the White House today released staff salaries, as they do each year. Since 1995, the White House has been require...

ReportingOn 2.0 is live and ready for your questions. And answers. It's still the backchannel for your beat, but it's an absolute re-imagining of the netwo...

In June 2007, John McClain, who covers the NFL';s Houston Texans for the Houston Chronicle, was getting tired of a league rule that limited the Chronicle to ...

[UPDATE: Tribune Interactive has removed a photo in one of these galleries -- the image we used for our home page illustration -- because it appears to have ...

Last Thursday, I returned to Moscow from the Future of News and Civic Media Conference in Cambridge, Mass. Organized by the MIT Center of Future Civic Media ...

Why NPR turned its camera on the audience at a Senate hearing, and how its own crowd is writing the caption http:/ / tr.im/ qudz » What happens when the bank ...

Earlier today, The Wall Street Journal posted this bit of breaking news on Twitter: WSJ, via Twitter Posted July 1 by The Wall Street Journal via Twit...

But this is his bank, so it is his problem. Sen. Daniel Inouye pressured the Treasury Department and the FDIC to approve a bailout contract with Central Paci...

Today's a big day for us at EveryBlock. We're making our source code available. Over the past two years, EveryBlock has been funded by a grant from the Knig...

Are you a lawmaker in Washington wondering whether you are involved in a scandal or under investigation? Well, we';ve made a very simple game for you to play...

Dan Pacheco, creator of Printcasting and winner of $837,000 from the 2008 Knight News Challenge, announced last week that the project is going national with...

With no live programming in the morning, MLB Network had to scramble to assemble its crew after the bombshell broke Feb. 7: Sports Illustrated';s Selena Robe...

It';s been more than a week since New York Times reporter David Rohde escaped from his captors in Pakistan, so maybe now is a good time to try and look dispa...

";The Not-So-Hidden Politics of Class Online"; http:/ / tr.im/ qlWL Facebook, MySpace and privileged spaces online, by @zephoria » Instructive failure: Five l...

For any court, but especially the U.S. Supreme Court, no decision truly stands alone. Each helps to weave a tapestry of legal context that informs our unders...

By David Westphal: The University of Virginia prepared Jason Motlagh very well for his career has a free-lance foreign correspondent.When he applied to take ...

After yesterday';s discussion about discussion drafts, the Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions released a draft of their version of the public option ...

Vivek Kundra, federal CIO, and Macon Phillips, White House new media director, unveiled Office of Management and Budget';s IT dashboard this morning at the P...

The official burial for MyTopiaCafe.com will be on July 1, 2009. That's the day the hyperlocal site for the Daytona Beach News-Journal will be defunct, dead,...

[This is part two of our series on the changing relationships between sports leagues and news organizations. See the whole series here. —Josh] Before divin...

Eliazar Parra Cardenas'; new project Backbars doesn';t add any new information to a site. Its aim is to make it easier for your brain to make sense of the in...

AOL';s strategy: leanly staffed news sites focused on lucrative niches (Daily Finance, PoliticsDaily, etc.) http:/ / tr.im/ q9ga » In a study of U.S. bloggers...

I like to think that Gotham Gazette's Balance! inspired the folks over at the Washington Post to create an even better budget game of their own but I am open...

As always, the Center for Responsive Politics ferrets out the story behind the story when it comes to big votes in Congress. Lindsay Renick Mayer at CRP’s ...

Last week, I took a look at the circle of former staffers turned health care lobbyists that surround Senate Finance Committee Chair Max Baucus. The Senate Fi...

On Friday, the House of Representatives passed the cap and trade bill after an incredibly messy process left little time for congressmen and the public to di...

Mashable has published one of the best all-around guides to Twitter. If there ever was a reason to publish a printed book about a rapidly developing technolo...

ReportingOn 2.0 is live and ready for your questions. And answers. It';s still the backchannel for your beat, but it';s an absolute re-imagining of the netw...

A few days ago at the annual APSE convention, I led two sessions on Networked Journalism.  On the way down to Pittsburgh from Rochester in the car, I tried ...

I'm having one of those moments where I need to blog as a way to organize my thoughts. Longtime readers know that much of what I write here is less than perf...

Over at IdeaLab, I';ve interviewed Baghdad Brian, who I met in October 2007 at the first Networked Journalism summit Jeff Jarvis threw at CUNY.  At the time...

My colleague Mario Starks recently pointed me to a rockin'; new Firefox plugin called iMacros, which lets you automatically run a whole host of repetitive ta...

What follows is intended as a brief personal braindump from the four days I spent in Cambridge, Ma. last week, most of it deeply entrenched in the guts of #K...

I';m sad to report that funding for BeatBlogging.Org will run out on Sept. 1 of this year. Being the editor of BeatBlogging.Org has been a great ride. I';ve ...

Microsoft gets a lot of grief for many of the things that it does, but we should at least give Microsoft credit for being willing to reinvest profits into re...

As I stared at my bookshelf this evening, I got to thinking about the books I most often recommend to online journalism colleagues and workshop participants....

";When I was in college, a professor said, ';Beware of the Internet.'; Everyone and anyone is a ';journalist'; or ';writer'; because of it. Six years later, ...

Last week, I asked for some on tips on why news organizations should link to external sources. I wanted your best reasons, and you happily provided them.  S...

I have been discussing the idea of starting a new journalism podcast with some people and would appreciate your feedback. This podcast would be different fro...

I';ll be showing up in person in at least two different places outside the lush springtime confines of Western New York over the next few weeks, believe it o...

Over at IdeaLab, I';ve been way past deadline for a post, after (again) making all sorts of promises about helping out more over there.  Until now. After p...

Hey RSS readers, click on through to answer the question if you don';t mind. Trying to gather some ideas for a post I';m working on. Thank you! Previously ...

[UPDATE: Predictably, this was the wrong day to bring this up.] I get the feeling people think of MediaNews* CEO (and AP chairman) Dean Singleton as some sor...

A group of newspaper execs met this week to discuss the best ways to collude; I mean ";support and preserve the traditions of newsgathering that will serve...

Be honest. Be yourself. Assume that everything you say is public, even if you say it privately. If it';s not clear to you what';s public and what';s private,...

Howard Weaver writes a sweet, short paean to the dailiness of the newspaper: I’ve been arguing for years that newspapers �" yes, printed, daily newspapers...

Dear Sam Zell, I recently noticed that your company has filled for bankruptcy protection. I think I can help. Can I turn things around? No, but I think I can...

OK, the mention wasn';t directly referencing my fellowship project, but Marissa Mayer reiterated her recommendation that news stories become much more like W...

Last week, I had a tremendous conversation with some of the smartest folks working in the news industry about, er, ";the future of context."; Despite the lof...

Quality always matters, but with blogging so does quantity. The more often you blog, the more traffic you';ll get. It';s that simple. Someone who blogs a few...

Well, I haven';t heard from Gannett yet about my application to become their new brand/ wealth/ good will destroying CEO. So, I can only assume that either my ...

Wow. My poor neglected blog has one post from the month of April. If you';ve been wondering where I was, wonder no more. I';ve been launching Columbia Tomorr...

15 billion photos have now been uploaded to Facebook: The latest numbers the company has shared with us include 15 billion photos uploaded in total, an avera...

I'm hearing word that there have been a number of layoffs today at IDG.I don't have an exact number. Nor do I have any official confirmation from the company...

I've been running an ad in recent weeks for a live-in nanny for my toddler. It's a part-time gig in exchange for room, board and a small stipend. And it seem...

To whomever it may concern, I';m writing to apply for the position of CEO of Gannett. I think I can do the job cheaper, quicker and better-ish than your curr...

Boston Globe Globe editorial page editor Renee Loth, who has been with the paper for 24 years, says "I was once described in a magazine profile ...

ChicagoReader.com The Chicago Tribune is paying its Chicago Now bloggers $5 per 1,000 hits. Michael Miner is told that the operation has 65 bloggers and last...

WP Ombudsman's Blog Post ombudsman Andrew Alexander says reaction to the story about the Post's off-the-record salons "was immediate and ranged from anger to...

True/ Slant It's fair for a media writer like Howard Kurtz to point out the sudden presence of female faces of color among the press in the White House, says ...

GlobalPost.com "The Daily Show" and "The Colbert Report" had plenty of laughs in their reports from Iran and Iraq, says Thomas Mucha, "but they also produced...

Politico.com | WP | Hillman Foundation A Washington Post spokeswoman says a flier promoting $25,000 to $250,000 WP-sponsored sessions with "those...

Boston Globe A dozen "idiot" editors came and went between 1975 and 2000. Owner Herb Lipson -- he's the guy who fired several Boston mag staffers, then enjoy...

NPR.org Former LAT and NYT investigative journalist Doug Frantz now works for Sen. John Kerry on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and his first report...

Politico.com Mike Allen reports the Washington Post is offering lobbyists and association executives off the record, non-confrontational access t...

Washington Post That's what the Post's Robin Givhan tells Howard Kurtz, who points out that five reporters who cover Michelle Obama are African American wome...

TheStreet.com Rupert Murdoch says Michael Wolff's claim that he's planned out a Times deal in detail is "nonsense." "I don't think it's for sale ...

Women's Wear Daily "Do I like it? Well, sometimes I like it. You get in fights because there's something to fight about," Michael Wolff tells Irin Carmon. La...

NYTimes.com David Rohde is low-key by nature, and he was in character as he spoke briefly in the Times newsroom on Wednesday, reports Clyde Haberman. He didn...

MediaNews releaseJuly 1, 2009DENVER, CO ... A media report on Wednesday, citing rumors from unnamed sources, reports that MediaNews Group has proposed a refi...

Associated Press Newspaper division chief Bob Dickey informed Gannett staffers of the layoffs in a letter Wednesday. He says "there have been so...

> Corn on blogging, paying for news and the Beatles > Rohde gets a "looooong loud ovation" from NYTers > Strib wants out of machinists union's pension plan >...

WatchdogsatPocantico.com | Content BridgesThe Investigative News Network's mission is very simple, says the group's declaration: it's "to aid and abet, in ev...

Politico.comDavid Westin says TV news shops have had a strategy of covering the same news that everyone else does but trying to do it better. "That strategy ...

Vanity Fair How Michael Wolff sees it: "Obsessives everywhere in their particular narrow-focused areas of interest, flashing ever more informatio...

Pew Research Center for the People & the Press Pew found that about two-thirds of the public believe news outlets gave too much attention to Michael Jackson'...

Westword | MinnPost.com A Debtwire piece reports: "MediaNews has scheduled a July 1 lender call to provide an update on the progress of the negotiations. ......

Nieman Journalism Lab Did staying quiet about David Rohde's kidnapping save his life, as many people have suggested? "There's no evidence whatsoever to suppo...

Philadelphia Daily News A judge ordered lawyers to give up their July 4 weekend, if necessary, to share notes, documents and any other information related to...

Mediabistro.com Fast Company "I love it here. I love our newspaper," says Rob Curley, who heads the Las Vegas Sun's new-media division. "Maybe th...

Indianapolis Star The vote was 97-9. The Indianapolis Newspaper Guild says on its website: "Because this was not a last, final offer the union bargaining tea...

Iran election: faces of the dead and detained | World news | guardian.co.uk via kwout They';re at it again. Following the very domestic issue of MPs'; expen...

When Michael Jackson died, I wondered how quickly the conversation about him would fade online and how long it would persist on TV ";news."; Well, it didn';t...

The internet blows my mind. Ryan Carson opened my eyes to the power of it a few months ago. We can sit down and create a blog or web application and have it...

The latest subscriber figures (see table below, and first published in my blog's newspapers category) show that, apart from a couple of exceptions, it's time...

At the Aspen Ideas Festival, I got up to a mic to ask Eric Schmidt a question. No, it wasn';t, ";what would Google do?"; I wanted his reaction to a notion I'...

At yesterday';s Personal Democracy Forum --; where I was in the unfortunate position of speaking inbetween two of my favorite geniuses, danah boyd and David ...

I said in What Would Google Do? --; and argued the point in a talk at Google in Washington --; that Google and other technology companies have more influence...

YouTube launches YouTube Reporters'; Center, a new video site where news superstars like Katie Couric provide reporting tips for citizen journalists. Here a...

I';m late getting to the Milbank v. Pitney dust-up, largely because I find it so unremarkable. But I';ve decided to mention it because, contrary to the headl...

For CUNY';s New Business Models for News Project, we would be very grateful if local blogs and sites filled out a survey to give us data in our analysis and ...

Following the frighteningly dangerous thinking of Judge Richard Posner --; proposing rewriting copyright law to outlaw linking to and summarizing (aka talkin...

With its recent in-depth coverage of the Church of Scientology, Florida's St Petersburg Times demonstrates some interesting and sometimes imaginative ways of...

Reporters have been calling today looking into the importance of Twitter and social media in the two big stories of the month: Iran and Michael Jackson. Have...

Express.co.uk is about to undergo a redesign. I broke the news here, and there's a good review of the new look (still currently in beta) at econsultancy.

Mike Masnick on techdirt points us to some dangerous and incomplete thinking from Judge Richard Posner on his blog. At the bottom, Posner writes: Expanding c...

Salesforce.com';s Marc Benioff says the future of computing will be like Twitter --; that is, live, not batched. “Any concept of batch or delay in developm...

So I was watching Countdown with Keith Olbermann on Tuesday evening; the show included the following segment. Two lines spoken at about 4:30 minutes prompt t...

Some research from The Media Audit makes a pretty strong point about how quickly media consumers'; behaviour is changing: ";The Internet now represents 32.5%...

In March, I appealed to the Audit Bureau of Circulations to sort out its terrible ABCe website. It's had a redesign. Here's a list of its latest problems.

I follow the BBC World, the Guardian and the New York Times through my Twitter account, among other news services, but I get more news and information from t...

Paid Content reports today that The New York Times Companies'; Martin Nisenholtz is talking about charging for the paper';s mobile app. On the face of it, t...

I asked Tim Rowell, Digital Publisher at Telegraph.co.uk 3 questions about how they dealt with the MPs expenses story online. The main headline is that the...

Here';s what I think is a pretty solid business tip: I wouldn';t back or bet on a company and industry that';s described this way in today';s New York Times ...

Martin Langeveld, Jeff Vander Clute, Joe Bergeron, and Bill Densmore unveil CircLabs Inc., a concept to help sustain journalism. They will be exploring paid-...

Well, I think I've held out longer than most...  seven years in Internet time is pretty long! Since April 2002, this blog has been hosted on the "radio.webl...

The Telegraph have finally published their MPs'; expenses data online - and it';s worth the wait. Here are some initial thoughts and reactions: Firstly, the...

I am now sure that no one understands the power of this new digital era better than Robert Mackey, head writer of The Lede blog at the New York Times. Watch ...

There';s nothing unsexier in journalism than covering state government. ";Trenton bureau"; just doesn';t have the same ring as ";Paris bureau,"; does it? Do ...

When newspaper people in the U.S. aren';t wishing they were the Wall Street Journal --; ";well, they can charge"; --; they aspire to be The Economist. Dream...

 A woman called on Monday to say we had too much Michael Jackson in the paper.I protested: "But he was only on the front page once."She said: "See what I'...

You know I am a fan of Twitter. It allows us to extend and improve the journalism we do and is another good way to talk with people.I have one more reason: M...

Pondering the narrow topics John McPhee has explored in his career, a critic once wrote, “One day John McPhee is going to bite of less than he can chew.� ...

Sue Polinsky wrote a blog post that turned into a newspaper story which turned into another blog post. (Glad to help, Sue!) She passed along a question fro...

Some readers criticized us for inserting race into this story about the makeup of the city's boards and commissions and for NOT including race in this one ab...

I admit that I'm over Michael Jackson. Already.I switch the station when the tributes come on, and that means a lot of switching. My habit of watching the mo...

Ben Feller, a former N&R reporter, who now covers the Obama administration, made some news himself yesterday.He dunked press secretary Robert Gibbs in the du...

Transparency: The full, accurate, and timely disclosure of information.Transparency was a topic at the the forum on Local Government Leadership Wednesday n...

Reader Bob asked me this question: "If you were the The State, would you have any qualms about publishing the e-mail love letters?"read more

Action Greensboro's panel discussion on Local Government Leadership has sold out!Seriously. More than 250 people told the civic group that they planned to at...

There are those in our industry who seem to assume that newspapers emerged in 1835 in full flower, that many of the elements of the newspaper world that were...

I wrote my newspaper column yesterday about Twitter. In the 24 hours since publication I got 7 new followers!Given that we have 175,000 or so newspaper reade...

My newspaper column: If you followed the news out of Iran last week, you likely heard reports coming from the social networking site Twitter.Twitter became ...

I am writing my Sunday newspaper column about Twitter, and I think I've forgotten how to write without being able to link.read more

Jeff Jarvis reminds us today that UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown recently described the internet era as “more tumultuous than any previous economic or soci...

We disabled comments on the breaking news story last night about the Red Mike's arrest. We didn't have a mug shot of the perp, but some commenters quickly b...

Idle thoughts on a gray day or, my impression of Larry King:If you were running for City Council and Bill Burckley were your political counselor, would you d...

In a valentine to Twitter on the TED blog, NYU Prof. Clay Shirky declares that social media (especially Twitter) have exposed developments following the Iran...

Greensboro City Council will be asked tonight to issue a statement of regret about the 1979 Klan-Nazi shootings.Here we go again.read more

Mike Clark, who writes a column on grammar and English usage for us, is linked on the English language blog of St. Francis Xavier College of South London . I...

It's always exciting when Greensboro is mentioned in a book of fiction. It's especially exciting when that book is high on the bestseller list.Lee Child 's ...

The Crime Scene. That's the name of the newest member of the blog family here.Ryan Seals and Dioni Wise are its hosts.We are providing this blog as an addit...

To all the people who suddenly find themselves without a television picture  because the digital TV conversion caught them by surprise, breathe easy.Ther...

This story by a Miami Herald reporter who interviewed James von Brunn in 1994 reminded me of the time I had the killer of Nan Schiffman sitting in my office...

Is this an insult to Greensboro?“But what is the real reason to live in Greensboro? That is easy – it is all the people who live here. Although the thir...

Bill Mitchell at the Poynter Institute was kind enough to ask me about social networking and its relationship to our journalism. The peg was the release of ...

The morning radio DJs were talking about the future of newspapers, and one of them had done his mathematical homework. "Today's paper cost 3 cents a page," ...

I'm posting much less often here than I did while working fulltime in journalism.For starters, I know less about what's going on. I'm less engaged in the cut...

As I wrote earlier, we photo staffed every public high school graduation ceremony in Guilford County. (Two to go tonight.)Early results: More than 5,500 pag...

This is one in an occasional series on MediaShift where I discuss issues in-depth with thought leaders in online media. The format has...

Recently, those who visited the front page of the Miami Herald's website began seeing a sidebar ...

Michael Nielsen » Is scientific publishing about to be disrupted? A must read on innovation, citing the troubles of the newspaper industry: "The last people...

Like many people, I have been watching this so-called "Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, [Insert New Media Application] Revolution" unfold in Ir...

This blog is among a comprehensive list of the 100 best blogs for journalism students. The list covers everything from general blogs on journalism such as Po...

50 Free Resources That Will Improve Your Writing Skills | Developer's Toolbox | Smashing Magazine Everything a journalism student needs to know to improve th...

Recovery.gov might not be useful yet for ";following every penny"; of stimulus spending, but with a telephone, Google, USASpending.gov and some luck it might...

On June 13, bloggers around the world imagined they were under attack by the living dead, writing short horror narratives for the annual <...

Michael Jackson via last.fm The Iranian protests and the death of Michael Jackson signal a shift in the flow of news and the role of the audience. In bot...

Here's the latest 4MR audio report from MediaShift. In this week's edition, I look at the way Michael Jackson's death yesterday played out...

There's been much ado about Twitter's role in the political protests in Iran, and for good reason. With the Iranian government expelling ...

From time to time, I'll give an overview of one broad MediaShift topic, annotated with online resources and ">...