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Again, I think Edward Snowden deserves applause but also punishment. Most Americans agree. For instance, polls say the majority of Americans are OK with losing some privacy for increased security.  Yet, others think Snowden’s actions were heroic. Isn’t this a contradiction?  No, in fact, this is complex stuff. Actually, this is the original American theme: the individual versus the common good.  [...]

The Breaking News Network thinks it can fix hyperlocal journalism with lots and lots of Twitter feeds (via Pando Daily) By Richard Nieva On June 10, 2013 Hyperlocal news is a cruel sector that has already taken down a number of contenders, famously including ones with corporate balance sheets. So when one company tries to [...]

There are a lot of things to applaud and question from the Guardian story and subsequent interview with whistle blower Edward Snowden. Here are some of my takeaways. Snowden raises security issues that many of our leaders won’t address.  Granted, discussing some of these issues publicly could hurt national security.  But the big problem is that our [...]

Poor California, they’re so stupid.  Now the Golden Gate state is confused about what to do with a financial surplus.  That’s right a surplus. We have not seen that word — surplus — in a decade. And who knew the state that brought us entertainment, culture, and vapidness is now bringing us financial responsibility. But it’s [...]

Take a deep breath.  Block out all political yelling you’ve heard in the media this past week.  Now carefully, remove your partisan blinders.  Take a good, honest look.  What do you see? That’s right.  It’s the future. Hey I didn’t promise you a rose garden. This week we witnessed (maybe endured) four big stories: the [...]

If you’re a news service that publishes to a national audience, but your local stories aren’t being picked up by local media, then it’s not making community impact. One of the missions of The Breaking News Network is to support media networks, news services and journalists by amplifying their social media reach to local communities.  The [...]

Journalists have some great opportunities.  However, they will need to acquire some skills in entrepreneurship or form partnerships with some technologically up-to-date folks. Here’s why.  It appears that the economic theory of creative destruction is about to wipe out local TV stations and, as a result, local TV news. Making predictions on the media is [...]

One of the roles The BreakingNews Network is to be a clearing house for news services that need to reach local audiences. Local news isn’t just reported by the local press. For example, compelling local stories appear in news services like The Atlantic Cities, Colorlines, Public News Service and Investigative News Network that are intended for their national readers [...]

The Breaking News Network supports the arts as part of our mission to serve the public good. Independent filmmakers are critical to the documentation of communities, but indie films are obscure because they generally lack national ad campaigns. When indies have theatrical runs across a number of cities, they lack media access to local news [...]

This is the first of many media network collaborations for The Breaking News Network. The Breaking News Network Partners with Public News Service to Support Local Syndication of Public Interest Articles The Breaking News Network (“TheBNN”) and Public News Service (“PNS”), a member-supported news service that advocates journalism in the public interest, today announced a [...]