Attention Boston-area readers: I’m speaking at three upcoming journalism events you might find interesting.
— First, on July 20, I’ll be moderating a Mediabistro panel on the evolution of journalism. The panelists include Bob Buderi of Xconomy, Laura Fitton of Pistachio Consulting, and Bob Kempf of Boston.com. The cost is normally $30, but you can get [...]

My Harvard colleague Persephone Miel unveiled the results of months of labor (hers and her associates’) today: an in-depth evaluation of how far along “participatory media” — bloggers, citizen journalists, et cetera — are in complementing (or replacing) traditional Big Media. Her answer, if I may sum up 168 pages in a sentence: It’s just [...]

Greater Boston, a news program on Boston PBS station WGBH, did a piece just before Thanksgiving on community-funded journalism models, like Spot.Us, RepJ, and others. It’s a nice summary, and there’s a bit of airtime for me and friend-of-the-Lab Persephone Miel. (Plus a rare glimpse of Lab HQ! We’re still waiting to crowdsource the blank [...]