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Matter Accelerator Announces First Class of Media Startups

in Media on March 6 at 6:30 am PT

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.

Out-Trending the Trendmakers: NewsWhip Says It Defeats Twitter and Facebook’s Filter Bubbles

in Social on January 25 at 7:00 am PT

Friends? Who needs friends when you can just fall back on everybody to keep you informed?
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Meet the Mobile Media Projects That Just Won $2.4 Million

in Media on January 17 at 7:30 am PT

This just in from the world of news: Mobile matters.
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Interview: Corey Ford, CEO of Media Accelerator Matter Ventures

in Media on December 14, 2012 at 4:08 pm PT

The story behind the accelerator’s name change of this new-media experiment.
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Interview: C.W. Anderson and Emily Bell Discuss the Future of “Post-Industrial Journalism”

in Media on December 4, 2012 at 7:00 am PT

Step one: Open Microsoft Excel. Step two: Do everything else.
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Ten Things About Me

Ten Things About David Cohn

in Ten Things About Me on October 26, 2012 at 2:21 pm PT

Circa’s founding editor talks video games, public transportation and why he got into journalism.
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Breaking News Is Broken and Circa Wants to Fix It

in Media on October 15, 2012 at 10:00 am PT

News, but for the Angry Birdsified attention span.
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ProPublica’s New App Explains Why the President Sent You That Email

in Media on July 17, 2012 at 7:00 am PT

We aren’t just voters anymore — we’re customers.
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It May Not Be Televised, but the (Journalism) Revolution Will Be Hacked

in Media on June 26, 2012 at 4:00 pm PT

As the media world turns.
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ScraperWiki Tries to Turn Journalists Into Hackers

in Media on June 23, 2012 at 9:00 am PT

Should reporters learn to code?
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