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Funding Funds: The Huffington Post Investigative Fund Finds Support From Big Name Foundations
The set of crises facing publishing today is enough to make the most hardened of journalists curl up in the fetal position: a waning advertiser base, demands from advertisers that remain, depleted and overworked staffs, declining circulation-the list
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Detroit Expands Internet in Low-Income Areas
Detroit, a big metropolis and home to many auto factories, was hit hard in late 2008 with the onset of the recession. With many factories and companies struggling to keep their doors open, one school is partnering with the community to help get things
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Teach for America not best for students who need most help
Re the Feb. 26 editorial, Exciting future for Miami-Dade's poor kids : The Miami Herald trumpeted the Knight Foundation grant of $6 million to boost Teach for America in Miami-Dade County. While I agree that we need to do everything we can to get as
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Shorty Award Winners Unveiled in New York City
NEW YORK, NY -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 03/03/10 --
The second annual Shorty Awards winners demonstrated the diverse ways Twitter can be used to create the best real-time short form content. Newark Mayor Cory Booker, who won a Shorty Award in the government
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The Shorty Awards: Twitter’s night of nights
NEW YORK - The second annual Shorty Awards (@shortyawards) winners demonstrated the diverse ways Twitter can be used to create the best real-time short form content. Newark Mayor Cory Booker, who won a Shorty Award in the government category, used his
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Letter from the epicenter
Editor & Publisher Editor Mark Fitzgerald notes that with the departure of Rusty Coats from E.W. Scripps and the newspaper industry, "that's two Internet thinkers gone from the business in this young year. E&P's current Editor of the Year departed
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In Our Towns | Economic forecast to be released
If you spend any time in Horry County, you'll soon come across something that bears the Chapin name or traces its roots to the foresight of Simeon Brooks Chapin.
Considered one of the area's founding fathers, Chapin came to the area in 1912 in
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FCC Creating Digital Literacy Corp, Ponders Free/Low Cost Broadband Service
The FCC wants to create a digital literacy corps to help
boost broadband adoption by training people in low-adoption areas, which
include rural and low income communities, and at the same time boost the skills
of those doing the training.
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Alexander Howard: National Broadband Plan takes shape with Digital Literacy Corps, USF update
An"Apps for Inclusion" Challenge
Secretary Donovan said they'll need to work with nonprofit and private sectors to "bring down the cost of computers and monthly service." He observed that "our most creative housing developers and civic institutions
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FCC Commissioner rips ISPs on broadband prices, competition
Federal Communications Commissioner Mignon Clyburn solidified her role as the agency's tail gunner on Wednesday with a warning to the big ISPs that the FCC's patience with rising broadband subscription rates is wearing thin.
"When prices rise across
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Huffington Post Investigative Fund has produced 50 stories since September
The Huffington Post Investigative Fund, the journalism nonprofit launched by Ariana Huffington in September 2009, has produced roughly 50 stories since its inception.
Nick Penniman, executive director of the fund, estimated that his editorial staff of
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Video: Texas Tribune's Evan Smith: 'I Was A Hater, Then I Became A Zealot'
One of the side benefits of coming to Austin for South By Southwest Interactive: spending some time at the Texas Tribune, the non-profit news site launched last November to cover statewide politics, public policy and government. The enterprise started
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Get ready to put your arms around obesity
It's no secret that Americans are getting fatter, with alarming spikes in obesity among our children.
All that ends this week, when Minnesotans will transform magically into the fittest, healthiest populace in the United States.
All right, I'm lying,
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Social Media Skills You Need to Qualify for Journalism Jobs
In February we looked at how people can use targeted Facebook ads to try to land job interviews. Now, let's look more specifically at what social media skills you need to qualify for some journalism jobs.
According to Indeed.com, which posts jobs and
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Loose Canon: She Got Jobs
Liz Robinson has an interesting problem: She has a growing number of good-paying, light construction jobs with good benefits, and not enough takers. Qualified takers.
Robinson, 60, runs the Energy Coordinating Agency (ECA, ecasavesenergy.org), a
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NYTCO Partners with Fwix for Hyperlocal Content
Another big news publisher is beefing up its hyperlocal content offerings, with Thursday's announcement that The New York Times Co. has signed a deal with Fwix, which aggregates hyperlocal content.
The deal gives NYTCO's various newspaper properties
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Jay Rosen on SXSW, Future of News Context, Prophecy of Max Headroom
This year, none of us here at the @Newshour were lucky enough to get to #SXSW (that's Twitter shorthand for the South by Southwest conference/festival/gathering in Austin, Texas), so we lived vicariously through the posts of some public media friends