All entries tagged: Center for Future Civic Media

Jack Driscoll on citizen journalism: From major metro to hyperlocal

Jack Driscoll spent 39 years with The Boston Globe, ending his career as its top editor. But his most recent clips have covered topics like leash laws and school renovations.
Driscoll is a leader-among-peers at Rye Reflections, a citizen-journalist site staffed primarily by retired residents of his hometown, Rye, New Hampshire. He thinks that [...]

2 comments | Posted by Edward J. Delaney | April 15, 2009 | 9:00 am

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Henry Jenkins leaves MIT

Potentially big news across town at MIT: According to a current grad student in the Comparative Media Studies program there, co-director Henry Jenkins is leaving MIT at year’s end to head to USC. (Southern Cal, not South Carolina.) MIT “will in all likelihood end its graduate program” in CMS, the student, Whitney Anne Trettian, writes [...]

2 comments | Posted by Joshua Benton | November 17, 2008 | 10:51 pm

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