"This focused, three-day gathering of results-driven, action-oriented participants will discover, assess, shape and create forward-looking enterprises focused on key elements of community — diversity, shared values, tolerance, participation and developing youth." June 3-6

"Twitter has just launched a new site called Twitter Media, where it's offering media organizations and journalists some case studies and guidelines to better connect with their Twitter fans. Alongside the new portal, Twitter has also launched an official Twitter Media account."

The Center for Sustainable Journalism at Kennesaw State University in Georgia has some awesome conferences coming up. Unfortunately for a lot of college media types, they're smack in the middle of the end of the semester. Aggh!

"JLocal is a blog for journalism professors, newsroom leaders and others that will share news and resource information on course work, projects and partnerships designed to teach students to cover and engage local communities, develop content for and with local media and/or do research for local media." From the Kansas J-School.

"Cheap j-school labor has a toxic effect on the already anemic journalism job market, and Columbia isn’t the only journalism school that encourages their students to work for nothing. Journalism schools around the country provide free labor to news organizations and direct their students to poorly paying jobs. This helps news executives cut pay and fire reporters."

"The service may persuade readers to buy more magazines at a time when industrywide print circulation is falling. Time Inc. now charges $4.99 for each digital issue of the weekly Time magazine on iPad, 4 cents more than the print version. Newsweek, published by Washington Post Co., costs $1.99 on the new Apple device." #

Don't understand how you charge more for a product that costs less to produce. #

No. SATSQ. #

"The Columbia program, which will accept its first 15 students (tops) in the Fall of 2011, seeks to attack the barrier between journalists and the increasingly important IT professionals whose web and digital savvy are crucial to any form of news gathering, reporting and delivery. The problem: Users really don’t know what to ask developers for (or how), and developers have no real idea what their software will need to do in the hands of the users." #