National Survey Finds Majority Of Journalists Now Depend On Social Media For Story Research Poll Finds 89% Use Blogs, 65% Use Social Networking Sites, and 52% Use Microblogging Sites But Reliability is a Major Concern A national survey conducted by Cision and Don Bates of The George Washington University’s Master’s Degree Program in Strategic Public [...]

The caliber of the partnerships that location-based startup Foursquare keeps landing continues to be impressive. A new tie-up with VH1 will see the cable network promoting Foursquare through the commercial below — all Summer long. Foursquare has had commercials before — like this Bravo one in February — but this one should be the biggest [...]

Back in October, we covered a new sharing service called NeighborGoods. When you see the term “sharing” associated with a startup, your eyes may glaze over at this point — but NeighborGoods is a bit different because it’s all about actually sharing stuff. Like, in the real world. Sadly, the site was previously only open [...]

Today is National Donut Day and to celebrate, Dunkin’ Donuts is giving out free pastries. Currently, more than 80,000 people have RSVP’d to the event via Facebook.… Mashable!

The month of May, named after the Greek goddess Maia, is National Photography Month. What better way to celebrate than to buy a whole bunch of “Happy National Photography Month!” cards at Hallmark. What? Hallmark doesn’t sell any such cards? Okay, Plan B: what better way to celebrate National Photography Month than with a CrunchGear [...]

Location-sharing service Gowalla has just revamped its website and expanded its Trips feature. The Foursquare competitor is launching the new feature set with two big business partners — National Geographic and The Washington Post — who have produced their own collection of Trips with hand-picked destinations. The National Geographic-branded Gowalla Trips include 15 walking tours [...]

Epix, the movie and entertainment streaming network that works across your TV, computer, and mobile phone, has landed another cable deal: Dish Network. In the past few months, the network also landed a deal with Cox Communications, Charter Communications and Mediacom Communications. We wrote about the service here and here. Specific terms of the agreement [...]

AP – Communications regulators are unveiling a sweeping proposal to overhaul U.S. broadband policy. Their aim: to bring affordable, high-speed Internet connections to all Americans and make access much faster for people who already have broadband. View full post on Yahoo! News: Technology News

Google advertisers can now add click-to-call phone numbers to their mobile ads. The move expands the offering from just local advertisers to national advertisers. The setup is quite simple and means that all advertisers running mobile ads can add a phone number via the adwords phone extensions menu (make sure to select the “iPhones and [...]

Cyber media is the field in the present media scenario which is the backbone of the functioning of all the media and any other field. No system can work with out the help of cyber space these days. Symbiosis Institute of Media and Communication (SIMC) organized the first ever National Cyber Media Conclave in [...]