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Alan Mutter: Leveling the Pulitzer playing field. In an age of increasingly asymmetrical journalism, it’s time to create a two-tier system for awarding Pulitzer Prizes. The system is clearly stacked in favor of the bi-coastal Big Newspaper crowd, but so what? They’re doing the best journalism. Create new awards. Don’t create Pulitzer Lite.

Ambush TV calls itself the newest and most aggressive effort yet to provide citizens with cutting-edge tools to hold Congress and other national officials accountable to the people. Forget the media. This is all about wedia – people like you and me taking control to draw the attention of elected officials and the public to […]

I’m currently at the Free Expression in Asian Cyberspace conference in Manila, Philippines, with other prominent folks from the blogsphere, like Rebecca MacKinnon, Ethan Zuckerman, Jeff Ooi and Isaac Mao. You can check out the conference blog for a rundown of presentations on “Southeast Asia, South Asia and East Asia in Manila to share experiences […]

Wikipedia has become so popular and influential, that it was the subject of a formal evaluation by Nature magazine in 2005 (and a related dispute by Britannica afterwards). This month, BBC Focus magazine has done a similar comparision with Encarta, Britannica, Infoplease and Wikipedia. While the study is not currently online, Wikipedian Arwel Parry posted […]

Bill Woo, one of the best journalists of the past century and a fine man, died yesterday in Palo Alto, California. He was a friend, and — as many of us who’ve talked since yesterday about him would agree — an inspiration. He was a mentor to several generations of journalists. The newspaper where he […]

Over at the Beyond Broadcast 2006 blog, Colin Rhinesmith writes: On May 12th and 13th, The Berkman Center – along with a team of others – is hosting “Beyond Broadcast: Reinventing Public Media in a Participatory Culture”. The title assumes that something called “public media” exists – but what is it? You’re encouraged to visit […]

I’ve been studying up on something called “microformats” — open data formats, such as tags, that are going to help make digital information vastly more useful. If you’re interested in citizen media, microformats are important to understand. I’ll be talking much more about them in coming months. Meanwhile, if you’re curious, here are two useful […]

Jeff Jarvis, commenting on a couple of stories in the New York Times, says: The problem is that they still think the internet is something the powerful use to affect the rest of us. Wrong. It’s what the rest of us use to affect the powerful. It’s both, actually. The bottom-up (or as I prefer […]

April 5, Berkeley, California: Rise of Grassroots Journalism April 7-8, Ohio University Institute for Applied and Professional Ethics and the E. W. Scripps School of Journalism: Blogging and Online Journalism: New Media, New Challenges, New Ethics April 13, Montpelier, Vermont: Lecture and Discussion April 16-20, Cambridge, Mass. with public talk on April 19 at Harvard […]

Mark Glaser, MediaShift: Sense of Community Motivates You to Work for Free.