Milton Wolf Seminar: Al Jazeera English as networked journalism
Is Al Jazeera English a Jeff Jarvis test case? Back in 2006, Jarvis coined a term called “networked journalism,” an approach to news that combines the work of both professional journalists and...
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This Week in Review: Egypt’s media lessons, The Daily’s detractors, and...
Every Friday, Mark Coddington sums up the week’s top stories about the future of news. Al Jazeera, the network, and social activism: For the last week, the eyes of the world have been riveted on the...
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#DemandAlJazeera: How Al Jazeera is using social media to cover Egypt—and...
Mark noted in today’s This Week in Review that “the organization that has shined the brightest over the past 10 days is unquestionably Al Jazeera.” Most viewers in the US, though, have had to watch...
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The power of brand to inspire bias: How do perceptions of Al Jazeera English...
William Youmans and Katie Brown are Ph.D. candidates in communication studies at the University of Michigan who just published an interesting paper in the journal Arab Media & Society about how...
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A web community with a TV show: Inside The Stream’s efforts to turn...
Al Jazeera English debuted the online edition of its show The Stream before an energized crowd last week at an Online News Association meetup in Washington, DC. A hybrid of high-velocity online...
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Speaking Friday at MIT: Wadah Khanfar, formerly of Al Jazeera
Attention Bostonians and Cantabrigians: You should head to the MIT Media Lab Friday evening for a remarkable event with Wadah Khanfar. Khanfar was the main driver of one of the most compelling...
View ArticleWadah Khanfar: A look inside Al Jazeera and the Arab media
As we mentioned last week, we were very excited to see Wadah Khanfar, former leader of Al Jazeera, come to MIT to give a talk on Friday. He spoke about both the wave of revolutions in the Arab world...
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Mohamed Nanabhay on Al Jazeera’s online growth and the future of news...
Mohamed Nanabhay likes to talk about something he calls “distributed distribution,” which, aside from being delightfully alliterative, might be a kind of rallying cry for the future of media. “What...
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Signalnoi.se mines social media for real-time analytics for news
What drives an online journalist crazy? Not knowing why a story failed to get good traffic. What’s worse? Wondering why a similar story from a competitor seemed to set the Internet on fire. It’s a...
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Four reasons why an open-source newsroom is harder than it looks: Lessons...
Editor’s Note: Nikki Usher and Seth C. Lewis are academic researchers studying the intersection of journalists and technologists, or “hacks and hackers.” The latest part of their work included Usher’s...
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Postcard from Doha: At Al Jazeera English, interactive journalism built on...
Editor’s Note: Nikki Usher and Seth C. Lewis are academic researchers studying the intersection of journalists and technologists, or “hacks and hackers.” The latest part of their work included Usher’s...
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What’s New in Digital Scholarship: Teen sharing on Facebook, how Al Jazeera...
Editor’s note: There’s a lot of interesting academic research going on in digital media — but who has time to sift through all those journals and papers? Our friends at Journalist’s Resource, that’s...
View ArticleWhat’s New in Digital Scholarship: Tracking SOPA, when filter bubbles aren’t...
Editor’s note: There’s a lot of interesting academic research going on in digital media — but who has time to sift through all those journals and papers? Our friends at Journalist’s Resource, that’s...
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