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Entrepreneurial media program wins Innovation award

The Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship , under the direction of Dan Gillmor, a leading expert in digital media, and FAC Board of Directors member, has been awarded the 2010 Arizona State University President’s Award for Innovation. -df Knight Center Wins ASU Innovation Award April 16, 2010 · Published By Editor East Valley Living, Greater Phoenix & East Valley PHOENIX – The Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship at the Walter Cronkite School of

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Palo Alto’s trio of newspapers staying alive in hard times

The online news boom and the busted U.S. economy have combined to make community newspapers an endangered species.  So how does Palo Alto manage to support three newspapers–The Palo Alto Weekly, The Daily Post and The Daily News? The New York Times asked that question of the newspapers’ publishers, including FAC board member Bill Johnson, who is publisher of the Weekly, as well as President and CEO of Embarcadero Media which owns the Weekly and

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Haiti Rewired: Wired.com tackles Haiti’s reconstruction with online collaboration

Haiti Rewired launched by Wired.com following the January earthquake, is an innovative response to the problem of on-going disaster relief. Editor-in-Chief Evan Hansen, a member of FAC’s board, calls the project an online “collaboration of writers, editors, technologists, researchers, geographers, infrastructure specialists, aid groups and others” dedicated to rebooting Haiti’s future. Haiti Rewired’s Mission Statement Posted by Evan Hansen on January 22, 2010 at 7:30pm View Evan Hansen’s blog Quake-ravaged Haiti faces a long-term emergency,

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