Author Archives: Ralph Hanson

Media News Roundup

Posted on August 20, 2013 by Ralph Hanson

Al Jazeera America gives viewers a more serious look at the news This summer I had my online media literacy students watch Al Jazeera English online for half an hour.  They were all surprised at how serious of a newscast … Continue reading →

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Return to Kickstarter

Posted on August 13, 2013 by Ralph Hanson

At AEJMC this year, I was part of a great panel about using Kickstarter to fund journalistic and other media projects – hence the recent number of posts on Kickstarter… Here are two more crowdfunded projects that have just popped … Continue reading →

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Tomorrow’s Washington Post Front Page

Posted on August 6, 2013 by Ralph Hanson
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Amazon’s Jeff Bezos buys The Washington Post

Posted on August 6, 2013 by Ralph Hanson

The news started breaking on Twitter this afternoon that there was a big meeting coming up at at the Washington Post today.  Not long after word came that Amazon founder and space memorabilia collector Jeff Bezos had purchased the paper for … Continue reading →

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Journalistic Projects Funded Through Kickstarter

Posted on August 4, 2013 by Ralph Hanson

Sacred Poison: A documentary Homicide Watch – A one year student reporting lab

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Kickstarter and Books

Posted on August 2, 2013 by Ralph Hanson

I’ve been reading up on Kickstarter the last few days – hence the last couple posts.  Here are a few more: Getting advance support from readers dates back to at least the early 1700s Alexander Pope used pre-funding in 17134 … Continue reading →

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Link Ch. 3 – Using Kickstarter to Help Fund Movies

Posted on August 1, 2013 by Ralph Hanson

Kickstarter Page for Spike Lee’s Da Sweet Blood of Jesus  Small-town movie theaters theaters threatened by shift to digital cinema Story from the LA Times on how smaller communities are using fundraising and Kickstarter to try to buy digital projectors for drive-ins and … Continue reading →

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Univision is winning the summer

Posted on July 23, 2013 by Ralph Hanson

Remember back in March when I noted that Spanish-language broadcast television network Univision had finished fourth in the February sweeps among adults age 18-49?  Well, for the last three weeks, Univision has been winning with that prized audience. At a … Continue reading →

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Questions Worth Asking (Maybe)

Posted on July 22, 2013 by Ralph Hanson

Why would a big name director like Spike Lee choose to fund a movie using Kickstarter? Well, let’s let him answer that question: If you had a button that would let you turn off all news about the Royal Baby, … Continue reading →

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Was SyFy’s Sharknado really the big deal that Twitter made it out to be?

Posted on July 17, 2013 by Ralph Hanson

That would be a definite NO. Some of you may have noticed last week when the SyFy Channel showed the over-the-top silly original movie that Twitter absolutely exploded with talk about the movie.  Everyone from Lost/Prometheus/Star Trek scribe Damon Lindelof … Continue reading →

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