From the video description: Sha Hwang and Chrys Wu talk about how freely available government data empowers journalists to investigate and tell stories through visualizations and how Trulia, Fast Company’s Co.Design, O’Reilly Media and Hacks/Hackers hosted a data journalist workshop in San Francisco and New York to teach others how to retell a story based… Read More »
From the video description: Jonathan Leess, President of CBS Digital Media Group, spells out the future of TV distribution amid the influx of new distribution platforms.
Hacks/Hackers co-founder Chrys Wu talks during media day for a H/H event in Argentina, 2012.
From The Social Media Bible by Lon Safko and David K. Brake page 5… Social media is all about enabling conversations. You cannot control conversations, but you can influence them. Influence is the bedrock upon which all economically viable relationships are built. page 6… Social Media refers to activities, practices, and behaviors among communities of people… Read More »
From the video description: At the #SC2ndscreen session at SXSW.
From the video description: Pat Stiegman,VP and Editor-in-Chief of ESPN.com, talks about his time at UW-Oshkosh.
Report: Adults ages 18 to 24 exchange an average of 109.5 text messages a day. Young adults are the most avid texters by a wide margin. Cell owners between the ages of 18 and 24 exchange an average of 109.5 messages on a normal day—that works out to more than 3,200 texts per month—and the… Read More »
In the summer of 2011, as social media and mobile began to take a larger role in building story packages, we were looking for a way to organize the new asks into local producers’ work routines. The illustration below was drafted as a visual aid on “what to do, when to do it” throughout the… Read More »
From the video description: Pat Stiegman of ESPN.com talks about mobile at the “Smart Phones for Smart Journalists” workshop sponsored by the Online News Association and the Freedom Forum on April 9, 2010 at the John Seigenthaler Center in Nashville, Tenn.
Paper by Jonah A. Berger of the University of Pennsylvania – Marketing Department and Katherine L. Milkman of the University of Pennsylvania – The Wharton School. Essentially, this paper is a roadmap to the creation of Buzzfeed (though I have no idea if Peretti and Johnson have ever seen it). From the abstract: Why are… Read More »