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GEN Launched To Foster Mutualization and Cooperation Among World's Editors

Magda Abu-Fadil | Posted 06.18.2011

Read More: Newspapers, French, Apps, Knight Foundation, Broadcast, Journalist, Media, Paris, Multimedia, Broadband, Peru, Sylvie Kauffmann, Gallo Multimedia, World Editors Forum (WEF), Argentina, spot.us, Nigeria, David Cohn, Engineers, World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA), Spanish, Shaping the Future of the Newspaper, Bertrand Pecquerie, Germany, Morocco, Tv Stations, Hyperlocal, Conference, El Pais, Digitization, Czech, France, Roman Roman, Martha Stone, Le Monde, Xavier Vidal-Folch, Cross-Media, Press Association, Developers, Webinar, Global Editors Network (GEN), Media News
Magda Abu-Fadil

A new worldwide organization is bringing together editors from different platforms, engineers and developers in news media in a bid to foster more sustainable professional journalism.

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Nonprofits: Open Up Your Data, Become a Platform Organization

Tanja Aitamurto | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Social Change, Open Data, Platform Organization, Crowdfunding, Nonprofits, Non-Profits, Open-Data-Environment, KickStarter.Com, spot.us, Impact, Funding Nonprofits, Impact News
Tanja Aitamurto

Nonprofit organizations are facing a similar challenge to other organizations: the old structures don't apply to this era, and the new structures are yet to be found.

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Will Perez Hilton Cover Immigration?

CyberFrequencies | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: MacArthur Park, Queena Kim, Susannah Breslin, Immigration, Daniel Hernandez, Off-Ramp, spot.us, Gustavo Arellano, Knight Foundation, Tanya Jo Miller, The Entryway, Cyberfrequencies, Los Angeles News
CyberFrequencies

The Entryway is a multimedia project where a couple white chicks move in with immigrant Latino families to learn Spanish. The project lit up the world of new media a couple of weeks ago.

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The Obama-Effect in Journalism: Decentralized Editorial Power

Tanja Aitamurto | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Public Interest, Donations, Fundraising, Crowdfunding, Micropatronage, spot.us, Journalism, Liberal Society, Media News
Tanja Aitamurto

Donors tend to feel empowered after the donation. Donating seems to create a sense of belonging to the community, and the donors also feel a sense of participation in the journalistic process.

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spot.us: Community Funded Journalism

Craig Newmark | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New Media, spot.us, Media News
Craig Newmark

People are trying to find new ways to fund reporting, particularly investigative reporting. spot.us offers means by which people in the community can fund reporting via small donations.

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