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By Nezua, Media Consortium Blogger Ed. Note: This week’s Diaspora is short because of the holidays. We’ll be back to full-length next week. Last Tuesday, Amy Traub dismantled a few harmful myths about immigrants for The Nation. Tr...
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By Raquel Brown, Media Consortium Blogger On Wednesday, President Obama pledged to cut U.S. carbon emissions “in the range of” 17% below 2005 levels by 2020. Ob...
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TMCmedia: @motherjones + @tmcmedia in new Michael Miner @Chicago_Reader article on burgeoning media collaborations http://bit.ly/72X1rS
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By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium Blogger Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is determined to get a health care bill passed in the Senate by Christmas. This is a momentous time, as John Nichols writes in The Nation: …Harry Reid has a health-care reform bill, and it is advancing. ...
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Everything about the web is becoming more “live,” from activity feeds, micro blogging, live streaming video to real-time analytics. Consumers’ demand for accessing news, in particular, has become more immediate and granular. Publ...
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TMCmedia: Much of digital media's still prepackaged, but microblogging+live online video R setting trends http://bit.ly/8KnVXD #bigthaw #futureofnews
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TMCmedia: In future, consumer demands 4 more immediate news will push limits of #journalism even further http://bit.ly/8KnVXD #bigthaw #futureofnews
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TMCmedia: RT @theAudit Unemployment: the next #economic emergency. http://bit.ly/8vZL0M w/@twi_news @gritlaura @alternet @democracynow #p2 #topprog
TMCmedia: RT @theAudit Unemployment: the next #economic emergency. http://bit.ly/8vZL0M w/@twi_news @gritlaura @alternet @democracynow #p2 #topprog
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TMCmedia: Time Inc.'s Squires Assembles Team of Rivals to Harness Digital Media | The New York Observer: Some of the magazine... http://bit.ly/7XJTzk
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By Zach Carter, Media Consortium Blogger Unemployment figures in the U.S. are staggering: The official rate stands at 10.2%, the highest in 26 years. A broader measure that includes people who are involuntarily working part-time or who have given up looking for work is at 17.5%...
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TMCmedia: iPhone and Android now total 75% of U.S. smartphone web traffic: It's a rather stunning number from AdMob .. http://bit.ly/5aDYl8
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Progressive publishers have brought to light many important issues, including the implosion of the housing market and predictions about the Iraq War before the invasion. Independent media’s greatest value is often helping underserved communities address unmet needs. ...
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TMCmedia: Progressive ideas, "my ideas" + the future of independent media: http://bit.ly/55QjYR #bigthaw #journalism #futureofnews
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TMCmedia: New Media Lab: A slideshow: Good 101 breakdown on the cultural/strategic shifts and 101 how to's of social.. http://bit.ly/07Vhd45
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What needs can be met, problems solved or desires fulfilled? In the old paradigm, the content that created the greatest value for mainstream media centered on the most popular and noncontroversial ideas. For independent media, the value stemmed from alternative ideas...