‘Old’ media’s content is still ‘new’ media’s source of news and commentary
By Stephen Hume
Citizen journalism is the new mantra and old school doubters like me are routinely dismissed on blogs as luddites whistling past the graveyard where newspapers are about to be buried.
Some citizen sites do fine work on-line, and I’m all for that. But [...]

By Leena Rao

Todd Herman, former Microsoft and MSNBC.com employee and streaming media expert, has been named the Director of New Media for the Republican National Committee. Herman founded and ran SpinSpotter, a startup that provides tools to detect spin in news stories.
Here’s a snippet of Herman’s bio from SpinSpotter’s website:
Todd wrote the initial strategy and [...]

By Jennifer Saba

The business of journalism is quickly running of out time to transform its model, a new study from the Project in Excellence in Journalism found.
The State of the News Media Report — the foundation’s sixth edition — is also the “bleakest” confirming massive job losses, plunging advertising revenue and a drop in profit [...]