October 14, 2009

Fun with the POTUS-tracker

By Alison Loat
Last month, the washingtonpost.com's former executive editor, Jim Brady, was at Samara talking about the various ways that news organization works to cover politics and public policy in a changing media environment. In addition to the experiments he highlighted, it's worth checking out their POTUS-tracker, which uses the information from Obama's schedule to show how he's spending his time, wi... [More]

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October 6, 2009

Fun with the POTUS-tracker

By Alison Loat
Last month, the washingtonpost.com's former executive editor, Jim Brady, was at Samara talking about the various ways that news organization works to cover politics and public policy in a changing media environment. In addition to the experiments he highlighted, it's worth checking out their POTUS-tracker, which uses the information from Obama's schedule to show how he's spending his time, with... [More]

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September 25, 2009

The future of journalism, Can-Con style

By Alison Loat
With September comes back to school and no shortage of great talks on, among other things, the future of the media. We've already told you about our recent lunch with the WashingtonPost.com's editor, Jim Brady, Mathew Ingram's TEDxTO talk and the CJF's recent panel exploring the changing media environment. One more to add to your collection. If you care about journalism, newspapers, public de... [More]

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September 8, 2009

Covering public affairs in a changing media environment: WashPost.com editor at Samara

By Alison Loat
Jim Brady, the former executive editor of the washingtonpost.com and the U.S. consulting editor for The Guardian, came to Samara for lunch with a number of public affairs journalists, editors and producers to discuss covering politics and public affairs in a changing media environment. His talk was wide-ranging and fascinating to producers and consumers of news alike, full of great examples and... [More]

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