Studying the intersection of journalism, interactive communications and public discourse
My international TV debut! Thirty second quote on the Al Jazeera English program “Listening Post” about managing online comments. Al Jazeera producers asked me to contribute to the program after reading my March 4, 2014 Poynter story about commenting and talk radio. Post by UCONN Journalism.
As a follow up to my Poynter piece about online audience participation and some lessons news websites can learn from talk radio, The Salt Lake Tribune invited me to participate in a Google chat about online comments. Streamed live on Mar 10, 2014. “Like newspapers across the country, The Salt Lake Tribune has grappled with …
With a 45-minute commute back and forth to UConn’s Storrs campus, I listen to a lot of NPR. One of my favorite radio shows is “On Point with Tom Ashbrook.” The show is smart, timely, features interesting guests, and includes perspectives from callers around the country. Discussions on the show are civilized and insightful, unlike …
For better or worse, social networks are an integral part of how people communicate now. It’s how people share news and their emotional reaction to it. The 24-hour online news cycle delivers a never-ending avalanche of information, misinformation, reaction, shock, surprise, disgust, satire, confusion, reposts/retweets, commentary, debate, speculation, collaboration and trolls. Online news and social …
In honor of the 2014 Martin Luther King Jr. national holiday, the Windsor Historical Society and Archer Memorial AME Zion Church in Windsor, CT invited me to give a presentation on how social media is changing activism and community building. In particular, the organizers asked me to explore how King might have used social media …
On Sunday, Dec. 8, 2013, I appeared as a guest on WFSB-TV’s “Face the State,” a political news talk show hosted by Dennis House. We discussed media coverage of the one-year anniversary of the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School and the recent release of the 911 recordings from that terrible day. WFSB Channel …
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” –Albert Einstein Post by Hartford Courant.
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A class action defamation lawsuit filed against three Connecticut news outlets has been dismissed by a federal judge. U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea rejected Lorraine Martin’s claim that archived online news articles detailing her 2010 arrest on drug charges on the websites of The Connecticut Post, The Stamford Advocate, and The Greenwich Time — …
Here are a few more insights from Patch folks who were recently laid off, and from a couple of editors who are still working in Connecticut. “I think the layoffs were done too quickly, too thoughtlessly, and without enough input from those who know the area. But, that’s pretty typical of Patch’s approach.” “One thing …