From the Center
- Are you a journalist or programmer in Boston? Have you RSVP’d yet? We’re cohosting Hacks/Hackers Boston: http://meetupbos.hackshackers.com/calendar/15033657/
- Anatomy of a Shutdown http://cot.ag/9vKuUL Jack Driscoll reflects on Rye Reflections
- Towards a New Civic Ecology: Addressing the Grand Challenges http://cot.ag/bCMve2 by @henryjenkins
From our Friends/Fellow News Challenge winners
- Big non-profit for investigative journalism created. HuffPo + Center for Public Integrity + Knight Found. funding http://cot.ag/9MFrCw
- ProPublica Editor Paul Steiger Discusses Emerging Ethical Questions for Journalists http://cot.ag/9U4vPy
- Knight Foundation awards Sunlight $1.2m for “National Data Apps”–data that affects everyday life http://cot.ag/as8Yut
- If you want to read the world’s best job description and work for a great Cambridge startup, here: http://cot.ag/cTp3FI via @placeblogger
- MIT CoLab’s roundup of responses to Malcolm Gladwell’s “revolution will not be tweeted” argument http://mv.ezproxy.com.ezproxyberklee.flo.org/?p=5797
- How Useful Is Humanitarian Crowdsourcing? http://cot.ag/bhtYhH via @mobileactive
- Ushahidi asks for solidarity on the 6-month anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon explosion http://cot.ag/b5kU6b
- Great outsider breakdown of newspaper content costs http://cot.ag/cQIqUD via @pbsmediashift
- BookBrewer Makes Major Self-Publishing Deal with Borders http://cot.ag/b1O0r9 Congrats, Dan
Evolution of Knight Fellowships
- Q&A on how Knight Fellowships have necessarily morphed from sabbaticals into hands-on research http://cot.ag/abaDhJ
WaPo Disengages, Tribune gets smacked back, NYT only loses $4.3m
- @techdirt: Washington Post Tells Reporters To Stop Engaging Readers On Twitter http://dlvr.it/7Fkc7
- @Poynter: Blogger to Chicago Tribune’s John Kass: I don’t live with my parents or work in the basement. http://journ.us/d4viKH
- @NickKristof: NYT Co. reports quarterly loss of $4.3 million. Better than last yr, but…. — http://nyti.ms/9cGGXi