So I’ve been writing mini-rants, posting snarky comments and sending pointed tweets about the new media landscape for a while, and I decided to flesh out my thoughts more cohesively. The future of information. What should it be? We’ve already started down the road toward what will be a much more rigorous, wild, free flow […]
A Newspaper Turns into a Blog, and Other Experiments in Online Journalism
Rocky Mountain News published its final issue on Feb. 27, 2009, becoming the largest paper to succumb to the newspaper industry’s economic challenges and evolution to digital. Wondering what had happened to the Rocky writers’ unpublished stories, NPR’s “On The Media” discovered that several of the writers were publishing their pieces on a site called […]
GroundReport’s Mumbai Coverage in the Media: Citizen Journalism Arrives
I founded GroundReport to give everyone a platform for sharing pivotal world news, immediately; I felt that no one could the convey the urgency of event like its actual witnesses. The devastating Mumbai attacks illustrated that GroundReport has begun to fill its mission of democratizing the media. Beginning less than an hour after the Taj […]
Silencing Online Speech in Tunisia- Mochagheb, Ennaged, Place Mohamed Ali Blogs Banned
Three more blogs have been blocked in Tunisia this week. These blogs, Mochagheb (Disturber), Ennaqed (The Critic) and Place Mohamed Ali have all been particularly active in providing news of the struggle of The Tunisian General Labour Union (UGTT), and especially about the latest social unrest in the southwestern phosphate mining region of Gafsa, where […]
Paul Starr, Celebrity Make-Up Artist, Found Dead
Paul Starr, a make-up artist to Hollywood celebrities like Jennifer Garner and Angelina Jolie, was found dead in his apartment yesterday. A friend of Paul Starr suspected a problem after not hearing from Starr for a number of days. When Paul Starr was not able to be reached by phone or at his home, friends knocked […]
David Carr and Michael Wolff Spar on the Future of Media
The following is the transcript of I Want Media’s Future of Media forum. The webcast was produced by GroundReport and powered by Mogulus. Catch the full video on-demand on www.groundreport.com/tv. I Want Media held its first-ever discussion forum, The Future of Media, at New York University on June 4, 2008. The Future of Media presented […]