New Media

New media inspires new generation to protest? It’s an old trope, argues a China scholar taking a practiced eye at the turmoil in the Arab world.

Generation S and the coming humanization of the digital revolution.

Northwestern University researchers look to link editorial talent with audience experiences to get an elusive Web-era result — loyal readers and viewers.

The blandly titled Journalist's Resource sits on the Web, ready — with a little help from Harvard's Kennedy School — to throw substantive story ideas onto reporters' desks.

It's been said that the so-called new media are driving a stake into the heart of the traditional dead-tree model. A recent Project for Excellence in Journalism report shows that while new media are growing in popularity, old-school reportage is still important and relevant.

Although it says rumors of the death of traditional news media are exaggerated, the Project for Excellence in Journalism catalogs some methods for staving off the demise.

Can journalism schools oversee the public-interest news organizations of the future? Yes, with caveats.

In the nick of time, the digital revolution comes to democracy's rescue. And, perhaps, journalism's.

At the end of the fossil fuel era, America's premier journalism schools have staked out their place in the Digital Age. It's called News21, and it provides what may be the best multimedia coverage of the election season.

Across America, nonprofit Web sites are trying to keep public interest journalism alive at the local level. But to provide what print newspapers increasingly do not, these digitized nonprofits must overcome the challenge facing every startup: Eventually, they have to break even.