I've been a fan of Change.org ever since they hired my friend (and new father) Josh Levy. So when they launched a contest asking for creative ideas that coul...

Chris Amico is one of the first few journalists to fund their work via Spot.Us. If all goes well - his piece should also be the first Spot.Us article to be r...

It's that time of the month when a bunch of us journalists collectively get together to blog about something. I have the great honor of hosting this months "...

Apple';s iPhone is so much of a game changer on the news reporting front that even local media organizations are rushing to accommodate support for both user...

If you understood the title written above, skip down to the link, install the script and enjoy your FCC violation-free twitter feed that is safe to broadcast...

Arguably the country';s most respected newspaper, the New York Times, along with non-profit site Propublica, have applied for a joint $1 mil grant for their ...

Dear OffTheBus members, Back in July 2007 I showed up at HuffPost';s Manhattan office with a suitcase packed with enough clothes to get me through the month ...

Denise Lockwood is like thousands of U.S. daily newspaper reporters — she fell victim to staff reductions. But she';s not giving up reporting — she';s pu...

Rules, standard practices and policies are all null and void when confronted with communicating the news on a new medium. Such is the case with twitter, the ...

In a four-part series, Digital Journal is profiling innovative journalists, editors and institutions that are redrawing the map of citizen media. Find out ho...

Christian Grantham of NashvilleIsTalking helped orchestrate a local milestone in television broadcast news when he convinced executive producers at WKRN in N...

Well before newspapers hit a decade of exclusive Web-only coverage, they may want to take a look at how they archive articles. Rarely are instances of break...

The future of news gathering will serve the same purpose as it does today, but changes to the way its gathered might be best interpreted by King Kong — at ...

People have been clamoring for more transparency in the presentation of bills since the TARP recovery program was shoved through Congress with little time fo...

Over the course of two-hundred twenty years Congress has gradually opened their inner workings to public inspection. From the opening of its doors to the org...

Roll Call is reporting that Rep. David Obey and Sen. Daniel Inouye, the chairmen of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees, have agreed to a number o...

One of the main reasons I love the Firefox Web browser (available for Mac, Linux, and Windows) is because you can customize it with useful add-on extensions....

Obama's promise to appoint a federal CTO has created a frenzy of speculation, especially among those concerned with privacy, security, government management,...

Last month, the Federal Election Commission invited the public to participate in a January 14th hearing on how the agency can improve its compliance and enfo...

Congress has barely begun and there are already two bills up for debate this week that have been topics of discussion on the Sunlight blog. According to Majo...

Here are some stories that caught my eye heading into the new year:-- Advertising Age reports on how behavioral ad targeting is punishing Web publishers:Who'...

Since we announced the launch of News Mixer, a Web application developed by Medill master's students to demonstrate new ways of fostering conversations aroun...

Happy New Year! The Sunlight blog is back after the holidays and here';s a look back at some stories we missed covering over the past week and a half: Gov. R...

On Jan. 1, two Tennessee bloggers launched a resource site to help journalists understand and use digital media technology: NewsTechZilla. This site will foc...

Tonight is literally the end of 2008 and the beginning of 2009, so first I want to say Happy New Year to all of you. We've learned a lot since winning a Knig...

Internet Overtakes Newspapers As News Source (Pew Research Center for the People & the Press): I suspect advertising networks and agencies have noticed this ...

I wish I could say that Twitter is providing useful, on-the-ground, independent reports of the Israeli military action in Gaza and the Hamas bombing of south...

A number of years and a couple of careers ago, when I was the (exclusively) print sports editor of the Lansing State Journal, it was not unusual for a coach ...

1. Get a Twitter account. ( http:/ / www.twitter.com ) Amy Gahran offers step-by-step instructions on configuring your account.2. Follow other twitters. Try us...

President-elect Barack Obama's upcoming inauguration is going to be expensive: up to $40 million. To help pay for it, his transition team is taking donations...

Written English Version: During this holiday season, many people take the time to reconnect with their family. This is true with deaf people, too. Yet ...

Many people today who work in social change are convinced that the typical 'top down' approach to development, where bureaucrats and international agencies d...

A couple of decades ago, in recognition of the value of openness, news organizations began hiring ombudsmen (Clark Hoyt, Debra Howell and Alicia Shepard amon...

We blogged, you came, you read it. These are the top ten Sunlight blog posts of the last year based on page views. 1. 2008 was the year of bailout-mania. No ...

Around 1 a.m. yesterday, a dam burst near Harriman, TN. This wasn't just any dam: it held back millions of cubic yards of sodden fly ash -- the toxic byprodu...

Jon Henke , one of the founding editors at The Next Right, wrote an interesting post comparing the bribes Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich is accused of solicit...

Application Deadline: January 18, 2009 Rising Voices, the outreach arm of Global Voices, is now accepting project proposals for microgrant funding of up to ...

John Wonderlich, Sunlight';s program director, writing at the Open House Project Google Group, tipped me off to an encouraging development. Late last week, N...

It is the end of the year and I received some questions from the TIdes Center who are doing due-diligence reports for the Knight Foundation. I've been meani...

...it is hard to imagine what America would look like without the small and shrinking number of people who engage in painstaking, firsthand research in order...

It's hard to be the Web site for a radio station if you only consider your mission to be an audio space. But when you visualize yourself as a media site, you...

A project billed as the "first-ever online network of ethnic citizen journalists" was launched last week in Los Angeles. Called LA Beez, the effort is a proj...

Shafer homes in on the industry's expensive efforts to popularize proprietary technology - the subject of an imminent rant as I explore content management so...

I';m working my way through a few hundred pages of reading on growth and development in Columbia, so forgive the quiet. Meanwhile, I haven';t done a consensu...

But he can't stand newspapers. "I'm going to persist with trying to read the front pages of the paper, but right now, it feels like such a chore." Ouch. N...

Talk about putting video in context. This was a fantastic pointer from Will's Twitter stream. No related posts.

[Some time ago, I wrote a series of posts that attempted to address some of the revenue-related issues facing traditional news organizations and suggested so...

Brilliant. I'm very glad to see folks are starting to get serious about the accumulation of knowledge about this stuff. We should have had a site like this a...

Behind the scenes at Wired Journalists, a few of us have been talking for some time about the need for an all-encompassing database of online tools for news,...

I spent 20 minutes or so talking about Wired Journalists and Ning with Pat Thornton last week for a BeatBlogging.org podcast. Here are some highlights from P...

From Suzanne Yada';s resolutions for journalism students in 2009, this bullet point: ";Grow some cojones. Let me level with you. The world doesn't need more ...

I have a little theory. It';s my opinion that commenters — or anyone, really — is the most civil when they';re speaking in public and everyone can see wh...

Jon Marshall';s News Gems blog at SPJ.org has been a quiet, consistent resource, chronicling high-quality reporting for more than three years. Marshall is mo...

I promised RJI';s communications director that I';d put together material for an e-mail that might be useful for the Institute';s mailing list. If you';re a ...

For those of you unfamiliar with my personal and professional timeline, I worked at the Santa Cruz Sentinel from October 2006 through the end of September 20...

First, a bit of history: The first time I fiddled with a newspaper Web site, it was thespartandaily.com, after I walked into an adviser';s office at San Jose...

Howard ";yes, he';s my boss"; Owens follows up on the December 2007 post that spawned Wired Journalists with an update as the year grinds to a burly, overwhe...

This is exactly the sort of thing I had in mind when I posted about cataloguing business models earlier this week. More of this, please. No related posts.

Clearly you've already seen this. Hopefully, this will be the prod you need to get you to read it. (And don't miss part two.) Related posts:How Attention N...

GateHouse Media filed a lawsuit Monday against the New York Times Co. alleging copyright infringement after the NYT-owned Boston Globe frequently posted link...

For this month';s Carnival of Journalism, Dave Cohn is asking for positive (if possible) predictions for the new media world of 2009. How about 5? Mobile vi...

A 2008 study released by The Bivings Group showed that newspaper web sites  increasingly embraced user content and comments, launched reporter-written blogs...

I';ve been parroting Kevin Kelly';s ";1,000 true fans"; model so much recently that I forget how many people still haven';t heard it. If you haven';t, take a...

(Correction: An earlier version of this post incorrectly named the magazine that Ziff Davis Media said it would close. The correct name is PC Magazine.)It's ...

Missed this the first time around. But hear, hear. Brendan Watson hits on why I called this site Newsless. Related posts: