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How Do You Learn About Your Local Community? Most Have Multiple Sources, According to Survey

September 26, 2011
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Television remains the top source of local news for most Americans but many now turn to the internet and cast a wider net for information on specific topics, according to survey results released Monday. While local TV news was the main source for staples such as weather, traffic and breaking news, the internet was the [...]

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Q&A: Maria Armoudian, Author of ‘Kill the Messenger: The Media’s Role in the Fate of the World’

September 1, 2011

Maria Armoudian is a journalist, educator, and a consultant for Mayor Villaraigosa and other civic commissions. She hosts The Insighters and Scholars’ Circle Sundays at noon on KPFK. Her new book, Kill the Messenger examines the recent history of the media’s role and influence on cultural and political conflicts from the Holocaust, to the Rwandan [...]

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Interview: Elevator Labs’ Zack Zalon on New Funding, LA’s Innovative Tech Scene

August 15, 2011
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The state of the economy may be a big question mark but one thing’s for sure: L.A. tech is hot. Westwood-based Elevator Labs received $20 million in funding this week in another example of investors putting money into innovative Los Angeles-based startups. Managing partner Zack Zalon discussed how his years at Virgin Digital influenced his approach and why he’s excited about L.A.’s tech community.

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News Corp.’s Phone Hacking Scandal and the Public Interest

August 9, 2011
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I am now writing a weekly blog post on media in the digital age for KCET’s The Public Note and will also be contributing posts on local policy at 1st and Spring in addition to occasional posts for LAist. The ongoing “phone hacking” scandal in the UK may seem like a distant and isolated issue [...]

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Once-Mighty Myspace Acquired for Measly $35 Million

June 29, 2011
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Personally, I’ve had a Myspace profile seemingly forever, having joined at some point in 2004, having sensed early tremors of the first tectonic shift in social networking — the great exodus from Friendster to MySpace. I never used it much socially, especially after the great fake pornorific inbox spammings of 2006… I had already begun using Facebook at the time, gaining early-ish entry while a grad student.

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Tiziano Project Wins Knight News Challenge Grant

June 27, 2011
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Photo from an in-class exercise at a Tiziano Project workshop on the San Carlos Apache Reservation in Arizona this week. A Los Angeles-based startup with a mission to enable multimedia storytelling in communities worldwide that otherwise lack necessary resources and training was awarded a $200,000 grant by the Knight Foundation on Wednesday. The Tiziano Project‘s [...]

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