Imagine a giant rolodex of sources that newsrooms across the country can tap into to find varied perspectives on the news of the day. It might sound like I'm describing LinkedIn or Twitter, but I'm actually referring to American Public Media's decade-old Public Insight Network. T

Although often ignored and rarely understood, the FCC will be playing a powerful role in determining the future of the Internet following a court decision to strike down net neutrality. While experts in law and media are still grappling with what will come of the decision, it's b

When faced with daunting subpoenas and the threat of jail time, journalist James Risen did the only thing he could: ignore the uncertain future and keep reporting. Risen, a Pulitzer Prize-winning national security reporter for the New York Times who is fighting for the right to p

While young tech millionaires dominate people's perception of the Silicon Valley, the area South of San Francisco remains diverse with many working class families whose lives are only tenuously connected to the tech industry. More than 10 years ago Raj Jayadev helped create Silic

Dan Gillmor is a recognizable name and face in the emerging news ecology who teaches digital media literacy and digital media entrepreneurship at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State University. He's attended several JTM gatherings, including the JTM News Too

When the American people reelected Richard Nixon in 1972, Carl Jensen, a professor at Sonoma State University, was bewildered. Less than a month before the election, Woodward and Bernstein reported that the FBI had determined that the Watergate break-in was part of "a massive cam

Like a malignant tumor, trolling comments can quickly take over online conversations and transform them into a poisonous well of noise and animosity. That's partly why Popular Science announced this week that they are turning off comments on their site, but journalism has always

The unifying factor among every great conference I've attended was the awesome people who participated and the amazing conversations I had with them. In rare cases these conversations were part of the conference itself, but more often generated spontaneously with a random encount

When Jeff Bezos announced his purchase of the Washington Post, the entire news industry turned its gaze to the Amazon founder with both uncertainty and excitement. It's clear that the CEOs of today's big tech companies are the closest thing this century has to the magnates of the

It's been almost 15 years since Oh Yeon Ho, the founder of Korea's OhMyNews declared, "Every citizen is a reporter." But every reporter is also a citizen as well. While citizen journalists are allowed to freely to engage with the world around them, professional journalists are of

By looking at what's working today, we can get a glimpse of what the future of journalism will look like and play a role in shaping that future. This column has reported on the successes of both for-profit and non-profit journalism organizations, advances in media technology and

The Senate Judiciary Committee is poised to place a federal shield law before the full Senate, but some senators disagree about who should qualify for its protections. A shield law establishes a reporter's privilege against testifying about their sources and unpublished materials

Vociferous comments are the hallmark of a modern news Web site, and The San Francisco Bay Guardian is no exception. But for one week the newspaper has shut down their anonymous online battleground. Instead, readers were invited to attend a community meeting that the Guardian host

Each week The Illuminations Project examines a journalistic initiative that's working, but unless its ingredients for success are properly documented these wins could prove difficult to replicate. After a month of exploring what's working through both this blog and @jtmstream, I'

Thousands of newspapers across the country would instantly collapse if advertising completely disappeared, but for one small newsroom in San Francisco it'd just be one more story to tell in the next issue of the paper. For the past three years, the San Francisco Public Press, a 5