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Finding journalism's Future

  • By
  • Victor Pickard,
  • New America Foundation
April 11, 2012 |

This newspaper's parent company sold last week for $55 million, a staggering $460 million less than what it fetched in 2006. The plight of the company, which also owns the Daily News and Philly.com, reflects trends afflicting newspapers across the country, which continue to bleed revenue and jobs as readers and advertisers migrate to the Internet. It seems that advertising-fueled newspapers, nearly the last institutional bastion of journalism, are not sustainable.

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The Real Problem With Google’s New Privacy Policy

  • By
  • James Losey,
  • Thomas Gideon,
  • New America Foundation
February 15, 2012 |

When Google announced impending changes to its privacy policy, users and the media alike were focused on one thing: the inability to opt-out, short of deleting your account. Though Congress keeps pushing Google for more clarification, many users have grumpily acknowledged the Gmail notifications and moved to new privacy concerns like an iPhone app that copied and uploaded users' contacts.

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Mobile Phones Will Not Save the Poorest of the Poor

  • By
  • Sascha Meinrath,
  • Jamie M. Zimmerman,
  • New America Foundation
February 9, 2012 |

Entrepreneurs, businesses, NGOs, and governments exalt mobile technology as a game-changing tool to fight global poverty. But what if our eagerness to connect the world is inadvertently exacerbating the global economic divide?

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For Middle East Democracy, Send in the Geeks

  • By
  • Tom Glaisyer,
  • New America Foundation
  • and Shawn Powers, Georgia State University
March 3, 2011 |

When the Berlin Wall fell, the western response was swift and obvious: send in the free-market economists. Soviet Communism was a system structured for failure that had left a group of governments and citizens in need of political and cultural tools, as well as knowledge of markets and the institutions they require to function.

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Washington DC Broadband Bridge Regains Momentum

  • By
  • Preston Rhea,
  • Joshua Breitbart,
  • New America Foundation
March 3, 2011 |

The BroadbandBridge is a community-based partnership seeking to bridge the digital divide in Washington DC’s Bloomingdale and Eckington neighborhoods.

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Call it '3G' or '4G,' America's Wireless Networks Are Still Slow

  • By
  • Chiehyu Li,
  • James Losey,
  • New America Foundation
February 15, 2011 |

If you've followed broadband discussions in Washington, DC, then you've heard that wireless is the future of communications.

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Turn U.S. Embassies Into Ambassadors for the Internet

  • By
  • Tom Glaisyer,
  • New America Foundation
  • and Katherine Brown, American Security Project
February 15, 2011 |

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Reboot

  • By
  • Steve Coll,
  • New America Foundation
November 1, 2010 |

Steven Waldman
Future of Media Project
Federal Communications Commission
445 12th Street, SW
Washington, DC 20554

Dear Steve,

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Does Facebook Have a Foreign Policy?

  • By
  • Tim Wu,
  • New America Foundation
October 21, 2010 |

If it hadn't already been Facebook's moment, it certainly is now. It has become obvious, even to skeptics, that the firm is not just an interesting fad (remember GeoCities?), but an integral part of the world's social architecture.

In the near future, we can expect a new intensity of international and domestic scrutiny of what has become one of the most powerful tools on the planet for planning events and mapping connections between people. How Facebook reacts to such scrutiny will give us a sense of the soul of this company, more so than any recent movie ever could.

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The Apple Two

  • By
  • Tim Wu,
  • New America Foundation
April 6, 2010 |

In 2006, professor Jonathan Zittrain of Harvard Law School predicted that over the next decade there would be a determined effort to replace the personal computer with a new generation of "information appliances." He was, it turned out, exactly right. But the one thing he couldn't forecast was who would be leading the charge.

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