All entries tagged: Boston Phoenix
Clay Shirky: Let a thousand flowers bloom to replace newspapers; don’t build a paywall around a public good
NYU professor and Internet thinker Clay Shirky gave a talk Tuesday at the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, our friends just on the other side of Harvard Square. His subject was the future of accountability journalism in a world of declining newspapers. Even for those of us familiar with his ideas, [...]
Knight News Challenge: Building a new tool for communication across neighborhood boundaries
Newspapers have long viewed themselves as a kind of virtual public space — a place for community members to trade information and learn about each other. New media, however, has largely thrived on specialization: think clubhouses, not the town square.
With a $40,000 grant from the Knight News Challenge, Boston artist John Ewing hopes to [...]
