by cityworks | Feb 27, 2014 | Commentary, The 4th Estate
Today, we look at how images shared on social media can be used to solve or even potentially interfere with criminal investigations. Almost a year ago on April 15, 2013 one of our nation’s most prestigious sporting events – The Boston Maraton – was...
by cityworks | Feb 28, 2014 | Commentary, The 4th Estate
This past month, we showed you how throughout history images have played a big part in reporting the news. Illustrations re-created far away newsworthy events. Photos made us witness to history as it unfolded. Social media provides us access to areas of the world that...
by cityworks | Feb 7, 2013 | Commentary, The 4th Estate
While the Fourth Estate has evolved greatly over the past two hundred years, now its changing as if powered by steroids and rocket engines. Who can keep up? Newspapers are stopping their presses. Magazines, such as Newsweek, are going strictly to online formats....
by cityworks | Feb 11, 2013 | Interviews, The 4th Estate
There is a saying that it’s a journalist’s job to write “the first rough draft of history.” Nowadays, many of these drafts are blasted out in the form of tweets, blogs, and Facebook updates. The Internet and social media are revolutionizing the art of reporting....
by cityworks | Mar 8, 2013 | Online Media, Social Media, The 4th Estate
In February, we set out to meet the press, whoever that may be in 2013. For hundreds of years, the 4th Estate has been an integral part of democratic societies around the world, rooting out corruption, exposing injustice, and giving people the facts they need to make...
by cityworks | Mar 6, 2013 | Commentary, The 4th Estate
“The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information we know to be untrue.” Can you believe the man who said that had never heard of Twitter? Those are the words of legendary...
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