What Newspapers Need to do NOW to Survive
December 7, 2008 by Colleen Coplick
Filed under Social Media
I’ve been thinking about the whole traditional media/new media thing – everyone trying to figure out will happen to traditional media in the future. I’ve been mulling over thoughts around this for a while now, but haven’t been able to gather all my thoughts into one cohesive post. And then, I came across Chris’s post entitled All Tomorrow’s Armies and realized that Chris managed to coalesce all my thoughts!
Stay with the old at your own risk. All tomorrow’s armies are equipped and ready to embed. We don’t need to gather. We have our own dial tone. We connect and …read more
Multimedia Fellowships offered to Pro Journalists
October 5, 2008 by Colleen Coplick
Filed under Social Media
On the heels of the last article about citizen journalists, I slightly ironically follow with something for professional journalists only.
This, along with that edit that I added to the previous article, is all going to go support a post I’m working on about how mainstream media can enter the social media sphere with few casualties. Soon, I promise. It’s still percolating.
Anyway, without further ado, here’s the info about the professional journalism fellowships:
Multimedia Reporting and Convergence Workshop
January 11-16, 2009 and March 22-27, 2009
The Knight Digital Media Center at the University of California, Berkeley is now accepting applications for week-long training sessions …read more




