In China, the Internet enjoys relatively greater freedom than other media. Even so, three of the articles I posted on my blog vanished without notice.'

Heeding the warning against forcing 'existing quality standards into new technology,' a journalist is cautiously optimistic about the digital future.

At The New York Times, multimedia storytelling is becoming more a part of the journalism and less of an afterthought.

A short video that describes how citizen and traditional journalism can work together.

Carr joins Terry Gross on Fresh Air to discuss his Twitter usage, the future of newspapers, error correction, his own media consumption, religion and the accountability of social media. He says that he thinks of Twitter as a personalized "human-enabled RSS [feed]" that allows him to follow what his friends are reading and thinking about at any given moment.

Media is changing. In fact, our very concept of what media is is undergoing a transformation as well. I can explain the changes or I can simply show you this video. You'll think it's adorable, but it's sure to make traditional media types' blood run cold. Watch and then we'll continue.

Alisa Miller's TED Talk brilliantly illustrates what news industry observers have been warning for years: Our news diet is distorted. We get very little news about places outside the United States, and that amount dwindles further when we remove Iraq from the equation. If you look at our supply of news from places outside the United States that the U.S. is not directly involved in, the effect is even more pronounced. the Center for Civic Media, under the leadership of Ethan Zuckerman, is embarking on a project to build the tools to empower the individual, and the news providers themselves, to see at a glance what they're getting and what they're missing in their daily consumption. We seek to provide a nutritional label for your news diet.

One thing we kicked up and shared with the group was this takeaway handout on some things we find helpful. It's filled with Twitter accounts to follow, events to attend and places to start.

We may think of our tweets as real-time snippets of information. But collectively, tweets tell stories - about media scandals, natural disasters, political speeches and more. Over time, these stories become part of an important historical record - one that's made up of a multitude of voices, opinions and ideas. If journalism is the "rough draft of history," Twitter is the "raw draft of history" - imperfect and less polished, but important nonetheless.

at the risk of sounding like I'm whistling past the graveyard, I'd like to point out that there are thousands of newspapers that are not just surviving but thriving. Some 8,000 weekly papers still hit the front porches and mailboxes in small towns across America every week and, for some reason, they've been left out of the conversation. So a couple of years ago, I decided to head back to my roots, both geographic and professional (my first job was at a weekly), to see how those community papers were faring. And what I found was both surprising and inspiring.

The way we tell stories in print has been mostly the same for some time now. Space constraints and graphic layout have made the narrative flow a broken one. With the advent of digital devices and rich new ways of shaping content, the pressure is on to rethink how we produce and present our stories. Looking into why the broken-narrative experience happens may help us figure out how to prevent it in digital publishing.

The Tiziano Project provides community members in conflict, post-conflict, and underreported regions with the equipment, training and affiliations necessary to report their stories and improve their lives. We knew early on that we wanted to focus as much on the journalism component as the tools and have since developed an online Classroom filled with openly available training curricula and lesson plans to help easily infuse journalism into any project.

Here are five prominent news events that broke on Twitter:

the launch of Twitter for Newsrooms, an official comprehensive guide on using Twitter in the world of news. The guide, also known as #TfN, was developed by the Twitter Media team and aims to be a one-stop shop, from learning the basics up to more advanced ways of using the network in journalism.

Google News is also doing a lot of thinking about the best ways to personalize news content for its users. The product currently makes use of two main types of customization, Rohe notes: the explicit and the implicit. Explicit personalization is the kind Google News emphasized in last year's redesign, the kind that asks users to tell Google their interests so their news results can be appropriately tailored. But you don't always know what you like. So, starting this April, signed-in Google News users in the U.S. began seeing stories in their "News for You" feeds that were based not on their stated preferences, but on their behavior: their news-related web historie

The internet has turned the news industry upside down, making it more participatory, social, diverse and partisan-as it used to be before the arrival of the mass media, says Tom Standage

A couple of outreach efforts by ProPublica this week caught my eye as examples of how the Web can make journalism more open and effective - and reminders that both journalists and the public need much more of this. The first was a post on the ProPublica website Monday offering a "step by step guide" and searchable database for anyone tracing the influence of a nonprofit organization called ALEC that has proven highly effective in developing "model bills" for state legislatures. The second was a conference call Tuesday that drew about 140 people to hear about using ProPublica-built data and a news application for reporting on education access issues in local schools and districts. ProPublica published a national story based on the data, examining the relationship of poverty to educational access, along with a Facebook-integrated app for looking up and comparing schools and districts.

Over the next four weeks, a very interesting experiment is going to unfold. The most exciting part about it is that it's entirely open source: You can observe it, interact with it, and improve it. We're calling this experiment the "learning lab." It's the second stage of the Knight-Mozilla News Technology Partnership, which kicked off in May with an online competition that solicited 300 news innovation ideas from people around the globe.

The Economist Online is hosting a debate on the news industry at http://econ.st/p9l5yK and we would like to hear your thoughts on Facebook. Like many other industries before it, the news industry is being disrupted by the internet. Among other things, technology is undermining the business models of newspapers: the news organisations that employ the most journalists and do the most in-depth reporting. At the same time, the internet enables new models of journalism by democratising the tools of publishing, allowing greater participation from readers and making possible entirely new kinds of organisation, such as WikiLeaks. Do the benefits of the internet to the news ecosystem outweigh the drawbacks?