The advent of Twitter, and the ultrafast word of mouth effect that it lends to our lives, has already changed the way that we view the world and the news forever. Some of the most important stories in modern times have broken, not on the AP Wires, but as simple tweets that gain popularity like […]
Archive for November 8, 2011
When We all Have a Voice, Who do We Listen to?
Posted by: markherbert | November 8, 2011 | No Comment |Google’s Fiber Optics, A New Age of Zulu Style Control on the Horizon?
Posted by: markherbert | November 8, 2011 | No Comment |Is Google trying to own the internet? We can draw great parallels from today to the past. Before the bringing of written communication to the plains of Southern Africa, the Zulu tribe had already developed an organized system to get the news out to its people. The chief employed criers who reported each morning to […]
Tisha Thompson is a new addition to the NBC Washington news team. Her role is very specific. Thompson has joined the station to bolster the channel’s investigative news department. The Iteam is a new feature of NBC’s newscast that allows viewers and citizens of the Washington, D.C area to report issues of scandal and corruption […]
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Journalism isn’t dying — its just finding its way
Posted by: Andrew Knight | November 8, 2011 | No Comment |I swear I’m not stalling. Andrew and I met over the weekend and have decided to split up the huge topic into three blog posts (not including this one): The Before The Current State of Things The Future In “The Before”, we’ll explain how it was before the death of Borders and what e-books are. […]