Council members promote transparency bills
Published Date: May 25, 2010
At a forum organized by the D.C. Open Government Coalition May 20, City Council members Mary Cheh (Ward 3) and Muriel Bowser (Ward 4) promoted their bills to make…
Professional social groups growing in importance
Published Date: May 19, 2010
Facebook and Twitter are everywhere. No one or no organization can operate any more without a presence in at least one of these two social network sites. (Yes, the DC chapter…
Transformational moments in new media history
Published Date: May 17, 2010
The Poynter Institute columnist Bill Mitchell has a great review of a list compiled by Poynter library director about 200 key events in the past decade that transformed the news…
Digging out data and making sense of it
Published Date: May 17, 2010
Every story needs context. As journalists we not only bring the news to our readers/viewers/listeners but we also explain why that news is important. (Or at least we are supposed…