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Matter Accelerator Announces First Class of Media Startups
Matter, an accelerator centered around for-profit media entrepreneurship, announced today the first six startups that will receive a $50,000 investment and three months of mentorship in San Francisco. The startups are: YouTube analytics platform ChannelMeter, news discovery app InkFold, citizen watchdog-journalism project OpenWatch, text-to-audio newsreader SpokenLayer, video playlist builder/broadcaster Station Creator, and “interactive storytelling” project Zeega. Matter’s partners and backers include the Knight Foundation, KQED and PRX. Its CEO, Corey Ford, spoke with AllThingsD in December about those partners and the accelerator’s goals.
Regrets
We want to send the message that when things go wrong the best action is to admit the error and get back to work.
– From a blog post by the Knight Foundation, expressing regret for paying a speaker’s fee Tuesday to Jonah Lehrer, who was exposed last year for fabricating quotes, plagiarizing others and recycling his own material
Old Media Is the New Hotness for Chris Hughes and Larry Kramer
The business of news is a hard one, but at least two people running publishing institutions say they’re optimistic.
Out-Trending the Trendmakers: NewsWhip Says It Defeats Twitter and Facebook’s Filter Bubbles
Friends? Who needs friends when you can just fall back on everybody to keep you informed?
Meet the Mobile Media Projects That Just Won $2.4 Million
This just in from the world of news: Mobile matters.
Voices
Top Five Social Media Predictions for 2013
Brands will need to optimize for mobile and measure ROI.
Things Get Emotional on the Front Stoop
Little value for journalists or their readership is created in the race to be first. We need a media that races to be right.
– Dave Pell, in a blog post entitled “Get Off My Stoop”
Interview: Corey Ford, CEO of Media Accelerator Matter Ventures
The story behind the accelerator’s name change of this new-media experiment.
Survive.
Our overall recommendation for new news organizations is even simpler than for journalists or for legacy organizations: Survive.
–From a Columbia Journalism School report by CUNY’s C.W. Anderson, Columbia’s Emily Bell and NYU’s Clay Shirky, entitled “Post-Industrial Journalism: Adapting to the Present”
Interview: C.W. Anderson and Emily Bell Discuss the Future of “Post-Industrial Journalism”
Step one: Open Microsoft Excel. Step two: Do everything else.