Facebook Isn’t the New Google, But It’s a Very Big Deal For Media Sites
Why the Huffington Post--and every other media site--pays a lot of attention to Mark Zuckerberg: He's sending them a ton of traffic. Twitter, on the other hand...
Jon Stewart’s Media Critique: The Rally to Restore Sanity Speech
Jon Stewart's problem with cable TV, brought to you by cable TV.
Examiner.com Execs Push for Quality, Refute ‘Content Farm’ Tag
Journalists love to categorize, generalize and put everything into easily digestible chunks of information. But in our quest to explain something in simple terms, we also can oversimplify things. That may have been the case with MediaShift...
5Across: Beyond Content Farms
5Across is sponsored by Carnegie-Knight News21, an alliance of 12 journalism schools in which top students tell complex stories in inventive ways. See tips for spurring innovation and digital learning at Learn.News21.com.What are conte...
Writers Talk About Working the Hyper-Local Beat
In my first article for our special Beyond Content Farms series, I examined the opportunities available to writers at some of the biggest content farms. Today, I look at jobs covering hyper-local news.What hyper-local news organization...
How Content Farms Train Their Writers to Write for the Web
Education content on MediaShift is sponsored by Carnegie-Knight News21, an alliance of 12 journalism schools in which top students tell complex stories in inventive ways. See tips for spurring innovation and digital learning at Learn.New...
Your Guide to Next Generation ‘Content Farms’
From time to time, we provide an overview of one broad MediaShift topic, annotated with online resources and plenty of tips. The idea is to help you understand the topic, learn the jargon, and take action. We've previously covered Twitte...
Old Guard: From A Space That Wasn’t Occupied Emerges A Mighty Mutant
While the news business is shedding its old skin, a new hybrid has emerged: It’s Examiner.com, part of the vast array of assets in media, entertainment, and energy owned by billionaire Philip Anshutz. It has become the exemplar of what has come to be called micropolar journalism, as the industry leader in creating local...
Examiner.com Buys NowPublic, a Citizen-Media Web Site
NowPublic, which distributes articles from hundreds of contributors around the world, will operate independently.
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