Category Archives: News
Jack Shafer on the Human Desire for Self-Expression & Facebook’s Instagram Buy
Amid the blaze of criticism, speculation and punditry around Facebook’s purchase of Instagram that have lit up the web today, Jack Shafer has posted a smart commentary that resonates with modern journalism. Shafer cites Facebook’s move as one which identifies a flaw … Continue reading
Shift Change in Hawaii Media
Over the last month, Hawaii’s media has seen quite the shift change in staffers. Will this mean new jobs will open up? Or does it fit a trend noted by Robert Niles, that journalism is the fastest dying industry? Let … Continue reading
Big Isle Press Club Gives Gov. Abercrombie 2012 Lava Tube Award
To close Sunshine Week, Hawaii’s oldest continuously active press club, the Big Island Press Club, announced Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie as their 15th annual Lava Tube award winner last Friday. “Like the lava tube itself, the award recognizes the year’s most notable offense … Continue reading
Pew Research Releases State of the News Media Report for 2012
For media wonks like us, a gift has arrived in the mail today: The Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism State of the News Media Report 2102. Authored by Amy Mitchell and Tom Rosenstiel, the report is a rich trove of … Continue reading
Enjoying the Sounds of Silence
Silence has an amazing capacity to create context. In 2001: A Space Odyssey, Stanley Kubrick was able to make the silence of space more disturbing than the silence inside an evil spacecraft. This weekend, Ira Glass and the producers of This American … Continue reading
Storifying Sunshine Week Hawaii
Here’s a collection from our talk last night. The discussion was recorded at the Soundcloud link below. There’s also some background and run-up to the talk, as part of tracking Sunshine Week here in Honolulu. Enjoy! Continue reading
Tonight! – Why You Should Come to Sunshine and the Social Web
The excitement is really building for our panel discussion tonight, thanks to the culmination of a variety of events happening in Honolulu and around the nation.
