Minnesota Public Radio's Linda Fantin and Sunlight Foundation's Ellen Miller discuss how new ways of gathering and presenting information are evolving from a nexus of government openness and digital connectedness.
David Carr and Dan Kennedy discuss the best and the worst examples of news on the net, online-only news sites, hyperlocal news and collaborative journalism, business models for online newspapers, and the impact of social media on journalism.
Micah Sifry and Daniel Schuman address the question: "What are the legal dangers for publishing secrets in the crowdsourced era?"
As newspapers continue their mutation into digital formats and as news and information are available from a seeming infinity of websites, what do we actually know about the dynamics of news-consumption online?
Our Center for Future Civic Media is a proud member of the local host committee for the National Conference for Media Reform (April 8-10, here in Boston). We'll be staffing a table if you'd like to hang with us.
This Forum will assess the state of local journalism, paying special attention to the changing environment for news in New England.
Otto Santa Anna presents findings from his book, Juan in a Hundred: Faces and Stories of Latinos on the Network News.
Heather Chaplin on "emerging thinking on ideas about game literacies and the acceptance of games as facilitators of transformative experiences."