Jeff Jarvis, along with students and faculty at the opening of the Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism in New York City. Over the past week, I’ve written about the steady stream of books written by Knight journalism and media innovation partners. Here’s the third and for the time being final batch of highlights: ·       Jeff […]

News University celebrates its 100th webinar. Photo credit: Kenny Irby / The Poynter Institute  Last week, I wrote about the steady stream of books by Knight Foundation journalism and media innovation partners. Here are some more highlights: ·      Steve Brill’s latest book, Class Warfare, focuses on a La Brea Tar Pit of public policy, our […]

There’s a steady stream of books being written by Knight Foundation journalism and media innovation partners. Today, the hottest best-seller among them; next week, the rest: ·      Walter Issacson’s latest biography of an American giant, this time Steve Jobs, is a must-read for anyone trying to understand the complex, fast-moving psychology of Silicon Valley. In designing […]

Miami’s winter holiday breezes are usually refreshing, but this year, particularly so, thanks to a discussion paper we saw in December from Melanie Sill for the University of Southern California.  Finally, influential journalists are talking more seriously about a basic question of the digital age: How can they go beyond just informing communities to actually engage […]

Dori Maynard congratulates MediaNews on saving the Oakland Tribune after Martin Reynolds,  left, explained the paper’s new media labs — Photograph courtesy Elisabeth Pinio As I blogged, the nation’s second-largest newspaper group, MediaNews, was set on Nov. 2 to kill the Tribune. I didn’t get it. MediaNews got big through “clustering” Buy papers next to each other; Retain their names and […]