New Media Queen Catherine, Age 21
Thanks to bossip.com for the story of Catherine Cook, who with her brothers, just sold their start-up for $100 million to the publicly traded Latino social networking site Quepasa. It’s […]
Is the Media Ready to Give Up Its “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell?”
The breaking news tonight, word that “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” –considered kindness when it was instituted and now reviled by most fair-thinking people–is on its way out. The quote: The Pentagon is […]
Remaking America (from the Archives, as a reminder in these tough times)
In the darkness of predawn, we walked silently through the streets of Washington to take our places on the mall. As the day began, there was no noisy jubilation, only […]
Welcome to carol jenkins:media
Welcome to carol jenkins:media, a blog about media–especially media by and about women and girls and people of color. This Blog: Media is my family business. Both my father and stepfather […]
Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook COO, An Excellently Mentored Woman
Sheryl Sandberg is on her way to becoming America’s next self-made woman billionaire. There really aren’t that many–China has most of them. But Sandberg, who in her brief time at […]
Twitter? Facebook? WaPo joins the Party. Tweeters of Color
I thought Washington Post Ombudsman Patrick B. Pexton’s story today about WaPo Metro reporters & editors now being mandated to Tweet and Facebook by editor Vernon Loeb was missing a few points. We’ve […]
Hoping for a Big Bounce: TV for African Americans, Redux.
Coming this fall to some cities around the country: Bounce TV, the first broadcast 24/7 network programmed for the African American community. So far, its approach is pretty much under the radar […]
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