NewsCloud
Media Coverage
Jun. 24, 1011: Rockville news blog abandons its Web site, goes all Facebook all the time (Washington Post)
Apr. 2011: Bright Idea: Using Social Media to Promote Healthy Youth Development (HHS)
Jan. 6, 2010: Facebook is a local news ‘frienemy’ (Lost Remote)
December 14, 2009: In the electronic age, is it possible to vanish without a trace? (Patt Morrison on KPCC) (mp3)
December 7, 2009: Wired Magazine’s “Vanish” Contest — A Special Report Offramp on KPCC (mp3 13:17)
November 23, 2009: How He Got Found (Knight Foundation Blog)
November 20, 2009: Writer Evan Ratliff Tried to Vanish: Here’s What Happened (Wired Magazine)
November 17, 2009: The End of Privacy: Evan Ratliff and the Vanish Contest (CNN with Campbell Brown). Ratliff’s own media roundup of contest coverage.
November 16, 2009: New evidence points to benefits of online social networks (mp3) (Future Tense, American Public Media)
November 9, 2009: NewsCloud Helps Locate Missing Writer (Knight Foundation Blog)
September 21, 2009: Micropayments for news: The holy grail or just a dangerous delusion? (Slashdot)
September 2009: Roundup of media appearances related to capture of Evan Ratliff in Wired Magazine’s Vanish contest including CBS News interview with NewsCloud founder, Jeff Reifman
August 17, 2009: Community Sharing, There’s an App for That! (World Changing)
August 14, 2009: 12 Things Newspapers Should Do to Survive (Mashable)
July 8, 2009: The End of News Websites? (Online Journalism Blog)
May 27, 2009: Experimental Facebook Use Rewards News Readers (Poynter Online)
May 12, 2009: Facebook app translates online efforts into real-world environmental change (Grist.org)
April 30, 2009: Plugged in: UW is tweeting its way into a new social media ecosystem (University Week, University of Washington)
April 28, 2009: Social networking and relationships (MPR “Mid-morning”, Minnesota Public Radio)
April 22, 2009: Trash concerns: Hot Dish encourages young adults to get involved in global issues (WWAY3, ABC, Wilmington, NC)
April 22, 2009: UW journalists unveil In:Site (TechFlash.com)
April 21, 2009: UW class launches news app on Facebook (Seattle P-I)
April 7, 2009: Facebook: Engaging young people in news. (Knight News Leadership 3.0)
April 2, 2009: Watch Facebook 101. Dr. Greenhow on Facebook basics and MnDaily. (Twin Cities Live KSTP 5)
March 31, 2009: Come get your news points everybody! (Minnesota Public Radio)
March 31, 2009: Researchers test new ways to involve people in news through social media (ScienceCentric.com)
March 31, 2009: Mondale & Jones: Gary Kebbel from the Knight Foundation talks about the craze online of Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace. (WCCO Radio)
March 31, 2009: Social media experiment to get people involved in the news (Softpedia.com)
March 30, 2009: An interesting experiment by the Minnesota Daily student newspaper (Minneapolis/St. Paul City Pages)
March 29, 2009: The Daily on Facebook (MnDaily.com)
March 11, 2009: Can social networking save the environment? Watch video (WWAY3 ABC, Wilmington, NC)
March 8, 2009: Hot Dish: New Climate Change News Application on Facebook (EarthFirst.com)
March 5, 2009: Check out the Hot Dish! (350.org Blog)
March 5, 2009: Hot Dish on Facebook: current events reach the youth (Editors Weblog)
March 4, 2009: A Facebook experiment to help save the Earth and journalism? (TechFlash.com)
March 4, 2009: Seattle’s Grist fuels Facebook’s climate-change forum (The Seattle Times)
March 3, 2009: Hot news + hot earth = Hot Dish (Grist.org Blog)
August 2005: High-tech playground for news junkies (Seattle Times)
March 2005: Peek at TV’s Web Potential (Seattle Times)
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News Releases
May 4, 2011: NewsCloud Receives Knight Foundation Grant to Make Facebook-Connected Communities Easy
February 2, 2010: NewsCloud Receives Knight Foundation Grant to Launch Facebook Sites for Twelve News Organizations
November 16, 2009: Could Facebook Make America Smarter?
September 3, 2009: Research Findings Released: Engaging Youth in Social Media – Is Facebook the New Media Frontier?
July 14, 2009: GenOmics News Community Launched on Facebook!
April 21, 2009: University of Washington students deliver news where young people live: on Facebook
March 30, 2009: U of M researchers using Facebook application to engage youth in news
March 4, 2009: Groundbreaking Facebook Application to Engage Communities Working Together to Stop Climate Change
December 15, 2008: New Facebook Applications to Engage Youth in News
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Related Materials
September 8, 2009: How We Caught Missing Wired Magazine Writer Evan Ratliff
August 28, 2009: NewsCloud Launches Quick Response VanishTeam Facebook Application to Find Evan Ratliff in Wired’s Vanish Competition
August 21, 2009: The Evolution of Community Newspapers in the Age of Twitter and Facebook (NewsCloud Blog)
March 10, 2009: Applying Hot Dish Technology to Online Organizing (NewsCloud Blog)
March 4, 2009: Placing Hot Dish in the Context of Newspaper Industry Turmoil (Jeff Reifman’s Blog)