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How Mother Jones is embracing social media
Mother Jones’ move into social media from JD Lasica on Vimeo. A chat with publisher Steve Katz about adapting to the mediasphere’s new realities ‘If you know Mother Jones, you probably think of us as primarily a print magazine,” says publisher Steve Katz. “That’s not really true anymore.” For the past year, I’ve been […]
OpenCalais: Serving up context on the fly
Why sharing your content is a smart business move You may have heard about the threat by online publishers to cordon off their sites’ content and put a No Trespassing sign on their lawns to ward off crawls and indexing by the search engine. That chest-thumping strategy is a dead end.* Consider the exact opposite […]
Paths to the new journalism
Paths to the new journalism View more presentations from JD Lasica. The future of journalism will be more social & entrepreneurial With the business models of traditional news media in free fall, it’s a precarious time for journalism. Earlier this month I did an hourlong video chat with a class of journalism students at the […]
GroundReport: Citizen journalism gets richer
Five years ago we launched Ourmedia.org as the first free hosting and sharing site for video and digital media (yes, before YouTube). Secretly, I wished that more of the videos, photos and text dispatches coming through the door were high-quality citizen journalism reports.It took a few years, but citizen journalism has grown up. Exhibit A: GroundReport, a citizen journalism site with an international perspective.