The Power of Us: The $50K Media & Tech Challenge - One of the lingering myths repeated like a mantra...

We Media and Ashoka's Changemakers are running a competition to launch the best new ideas for using media and technology to change the world. The best ideas will get $25K to launch. Here's the unofficial site for participants, fans and anyone who happens to find themselves here.

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One of the lingering myths repeated like a mantra by some professional journalists is that they are not only the best judges of what we should call journalism, but also the essential providers of the service. This “world revolves around us” drone earned a boost last week with publication of a study by Cornell University researchers that concluded virtually all news originates with mainstream media, typically followed by a burst of attention and links from blogs - and just 3.5…

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