Today, David Ardia, Sam Bayard and I launched the first Citizen Media Law Podcast. This new weekly podcast series, produced by the Citizen Media Law Project at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society, will cover a range of issues relating to the intersection of citizen media, journalism and the law.
Here’s more from [...]

Here’s a quick tip for the Boston Globe: Learn a thing or two from the BBC and provide more context for your online stories.
This is how the Globe currently uses its right webpage columns (from: “Nonprofit takes over local cable station”):
1. “ADVERTISEMENT” = I understand you have to pay the bills, but 1/4 webpage ads [...]

From Bill Densmore:
“On Aug. 7-8, the Media Giraffe Project at UMass Amherst helped convene ‘Journalism That Matters: The DC Sessions,’ at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. The event brought together more than 150 journalism editors, mainstream and web/citizen journalists and mission-driven activists with the aim of planning ‘The Next Newsroom’ prototype.
OVERALL LINK: http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Jtm-dc
A couple [...]

In “Verizon officials catch static over cable TV plan“, Globe staff reporter, Caroyln Johnson writes
Over and over, local officials appeared before the committee noting the current franchise process was working fine, with 49 Verizon cable franchises in place and 19 more pending. Critics voiced concerns that public, educational, and governmental access programming would suffer, that [...]

From Cambridge Community Television:
“Do you live in Cambridge, have video production skills, and think that media should be used to empower local communities? Cambridge Community Television is launching a new project called Neighbor 2 Neighbor, to embed citizen journalists in each neighborhood of Cambridge, and we need you.
The idea is to produce media about local [...]

Amy Gahran of Poynter Online’s E-Media Tidbits is looking for News organizations who have in the past or are currently using a wikis. If so, she asks
please comment below, explain what you’re doing, and give us your wiki link(s). Also, if you’ve seen something like this, please speak up. I’d love to have some current [...]

The Project for Excellence in Journalism recently released the fourth edition of The State Of The News Media. From their website:

The fourth edition of the Project’s Annual State of the News Media report released March 12. This year, the report includes a unique topographical analysis of journalism Web sites. The report also reveals changes ahead [...]

Inspired by a number of recent events this past week, including:
1. Jay Rosen’s talk at the Berkman Center on Open Source Journalism (and Steve Garfield’s excellent interview with Jay),
2. Rebecca MacKinnon’s exploration into Journalism Education and the Internet, and
3. The CIS Presents podcast with Holmes Wilson,
I wanted to consider these conversations in relation to today’s [...]

Rebecca MacKinnon’s at the Berkman Center right now inviting comments from those in the room and out in cyberspace on “how best do we engage a class when the goal is to [give] students a clear undestanding [between] doing journalism and doing journalism on the web.”
“How do you do that journalism in new ways, to [...]