Jaclyn Schiff

News About Nonprofit News & New Project Announced

I work for Kaiser Health News, a new nonprofit news organization that focuses on health policy. Working at KHN has really piqued my interest about the nonprofit news model and I’ve been thinking a lot about its strengths and weaknesses.

Shortly after KHN launched, I searched to see what people were writing about us, and I came across The Nonprofit Road.

Twitter Contains News, But It’s Not a News Source

I just read an article describing Twitter’s role in perpetuating rumors and poor information since news of the global swine flu outbreak broke. In this regard, the Web is actually a gift to journalism. Content is exploding, allowing journalists to do what they do best – vet, think, create and explain.

An NBC Correspondent’s Path to Twitter

These days, NBC’s Luke Russert manages to tweet on occasion, but he wasn’t always on the micro-blogging site. In fact, he was a bit of a late adopter. Eventually when he did join, he sent me a DM crediting me and anchor David Shuster with getting him to sign up. This post describes how it happened.

Interviews: Video is King

Each time I watch one of Jun Loayza’s interviews I think about how this probably wouldn’t work as well in text. The same is basically true for almost any blogger who wants to feature an interview in a blog post. Video works better than print. Here are some reasons why.