In my latest post for PBS Mediashift, I look at how the evolution towards digital media and the emergence of the knowledge economy means that student journalists need to develop their own personal brand. The shift toward the individual and away from journalistic institutions was identified as one of the major trends in journalism by the Project for Excellence in Journalism’s State of the Media Report for 2009. In the

It was a wet and cold night but “iconoclast of the blogosphere“, Cory Doctorow, packed out a hall at Simon Fraser University’s downtown campus in Vancouver on Thursday evening. Cory is somewhat of a net celebrity, perhaps best known for his immensely popular blog, BoingBoing. For his talk, Cory took on his mantle as electronic freedom fighter to speak out about our drift towards a surveillance society. As he rallied