A one-day conference jointly sponsored by the European Journalism Training Association and the Department of Journalism at City University London.

The Knight Digital Media Center (in partnership with the USC Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, and the Online Journalism Review) is seeking applications for its special News Entrepreneur Boot Camp to be held May 15-20, 2011, in Los Angeles, CA. This intense one-week boot camp plus 6-week online learning program is designed for 20 competitively selected digital entrepreneurs with great ideas for community news and information initiatives in the public interest. Topics to be covered included:

People don’t know how to survive in the jungle of information online, and they are turning to experts and specialists to guide them. If in 2006 the main source of trust was “people like me, my peer”, in 2010 academic, experts, CEOS, NGOs and government representatives gained positions.

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"The world wide web offers the promise of greater freedom. But in practice press freedom in the world has been shrinking since September 11, 2001. Independent journalists and those who work for small organizations are particularly vulnerable.

"What might be needed is the right legal defender at the right time to protect the free flow of information."

How did he become so influential so quickly? How does anyone? It takes the right piece of information at the right time, passed across small overlapping social circles, starting with just a few hundred people.

The Observer was the first to report, back in November, that the staff of the iPad app was working with "a journalistic secret weapon," the Parrot AR.Drone quadricopter, also known as "The Flying Video Game." Now they're finally putting the thing to use, with a new feature called "Daily Drone."