$$$$$$$$$$$ The Knight Foundation in the USA is offering a big pile of cash in grants for neighbourhood innovation online in their newschallenge competition.  Thanks to the generous Kevin Harris for the link. It appears that this grant scheme is focused on the technology, rather than the content.  I am not sure that the web really [...]

The Guardian’s media guru Emily Bell has predicted five years of carnage in the UK media as the economic downturn bites.  Her lecture at Polis has set the media jelly quivering.  Of particular interest is her forecast that companies that have to return profit to UK shareholders wil sufer the most – only the BBC, [...]

Good post from Gary Andrews on the latest developments in commercial local radio – reduction in news and another step in the withdrawal from genuine local production and new gathering. ‘Chief among these are the scrapping of local news bulletins between 11am and 3pm, to be replaced with a national news bulletin, and the outsourcing [...]

This looks like a timely report from Demos – covered in the Guardian – giving young people the basic skills to self publish unlocks their democratic voice. The Guardian says of the report: ‘It also suggests that creating video blogs and online diaries should be part of the school curriculum, used by schools in the [...]