Topic: Mass intelligence

Last week, John Micklethwait, editor-in-chief of The Economist, spoke on NPR’s “The Diane Rehm Show”, along with Stephen Shepard, dean of the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate School of Journalism and former senior editor at Newsweek and BusinessWeek. Given the recent announcement by Newsweek and the difficulties most print publishers are going through, [...]

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Tags: advertising, content, ideas, journalism, magazines, publishing

I once made a simple observation that 95% of all advertising was mediocre or worse. That was back in the days when TV, radio and print ran the media bandwagon. I also surmised that advertising was a reflection not just of culture, but also of other media. And as the quality of movies, TV and [...]

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Tags: Facebook, iPad, tablets, TV, Twitter

Once upon a time, training print journalists was fairly straightforward. Depending on where in the world you worked, there would be variations on a common core: law, ethics, public administration, reporting skills (newsgathering and writing) and maybe some production journalism. Obviously that’s a generalisation as other skills were taught too and isn’t meant to denigrate [...]

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Tags: computers, iPad, journalism, tablet, teaching

Digital platforms are popping up everywhere. Much attention focuses on social media services like Facebook where millions of citizens, young and old, are publishing their stories. But digital media platforms are making it possible for people to analyze data and apply it to solve economic and social problems. In the days of printed news and [...]

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Tags: crowdsourcing, digital, news, PulsePoint, Ushahidi, wikileaks

Earlier this week, we launched our digital disruptors video series featuring insights from the people shaking up the media industry. Today’s disruptor is Jonah Peretti, founder and chief executive of BuzzFeed, which labels itself a “social news organization”. Famous for addictive lists such as “21 pictures that will restore your faith in humanity” and “13 [...]

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Tags: BuzzFeed, Google, journalism, news, social media

As has been suggested on the blog before, we’re witnessing a flourishing of the “mass intelligent”. Podcast lovers, computer science devotees and people who thrive on big ideas are coming out of the closet, proudly proclaiming their allegiance to all things a little nerdy. And now a new YouTube channel, THNKR, has come along, designed [...]

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Tags: ideas, nerds, TED Talks, THNKR, video, YouTube