As the Republicans decide who will represent their party in the upcoming election and President Obama campaigns for a second term, the public is hearing a lot of speeches and political sound bites. But what about the campaign logos emblazoned on podiums, social media pages, and Web sites? What do the candidates’ campaign logos say about them? Three SVA faculty members—experts on design, branding, and design criticism—weighed in. Steven Heller, co-chair, MFA Design Department: Last campaign’s ...  show all text

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President Obama reverses his position on the influence of special interests in campaigns and joins the sleazy “super PAC” money race.

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Donald Trump sits down with CNN anchor Ashleigh Banfield to discuss GOP candidates for president as well as what position he would want in Mitt Romney’s cabinet. Trump says, “Rick Santorum was a sitting senator who in re-election lost by 19 points, to my knowledge the most in the history of this country for a sitting senator to lose by 19 points. It’s unheard of. Then he goes out and says oh ‘okay’ I just lost by the biggest margin in history and now I’m going to run for president. Tell me, how...  show all text

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Rick Santorum won the Minnesota and Colorado caucuses and a nonbinding primary in Missouri on Tuesday, raising fresh questions about Mitt Romney’s ability to corral conservative support.

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Rick Santorum told CNN Wednesday morning that Mitt Romney didn't always want to be such a Washington outsider. "It's not that Gov. Romney didn't want to be Sen. Romney," Santorum said, but he lost his bid for Congress.  Santorum said Romney has undoubtedly had a great career in the private…

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This is one of a series of blog posts from the first ONA class of MJ Bear Fellows describing their experiences and sharing their knowledge with the community. Fellow Laura Amico, along with her husband, Chris, is the founder and editor of Homicide Watch D.C. in Washington, D.C., a website that covers every homicide in the nation’s capital, and includes news, obituaries, profiles, court documents and memorials. Chris and I spoke at Mark Pott’s New Media Entrepreneurship class at the University of  show all text

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Republicans today are holding caucuses in Colorado and Minnesota and a primary in Missouri. We'll be bringing you data-driven analysis, historical perspective and results as they become available.

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Philly.com is your source for all Philadelphia. 24-hour breaking news, sports, weather, entertainment and more. Keep up with your Philadelphia News and Philadelphia Sports. Find Philadelphia Restaurants, entertainment, cars, homes and jobs.

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Even as some news outlets like Associated Press hire social-media editors to try and figure out how to make use of tools like Twitter for journalistic purposes, others seem to be intent on locking these tools down and removing as much of the social aspects from them as possible. According to a report in The Guardian, broadcaster Sky News has come out with a new policy that bars reporters from posting anything other than work-related content on Twitter, prevents them from breaking news through t...  show all text

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I swore I wasn’t going to write about Pinterest again for a while after finishing a six part series of blog posts, but major developments keeping coming and no major news organizations seems to be covering them. If you post a pin to Pinterest, and it links to an ecommerce site that happens to have an affiliate program, Pinterest modifies the link to add their own affiliate tracking code. If someone clicks through the picture from Pinterest and makes a purchase, Pinterest gets paid. They don’t ...  show all text

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Confession time: I used all these hackneyed words and phrases during my nearly 20 years as a news reporter and editor. But that doesn’t make it OK. Like many journalists, I often got lazy with words. I took the easy way out. I didn’t think. I hedged. Here are some obnoxious examples of journalese … all from the Star Tribune. I don’t mean to single out the Strib. It’s just local and handy. I could’ve picked on any of my former employers — Minnesota Public Radio, the St. Paul Pioneer Press, the N...  show all text

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The story of the day is definitely about Path (a CrunchFund portfolio company). The company has been copying address book information to their servers without user knowledge. The company was apparently already aware of the issue and was taking steps to address it prior to this post coming out. The Android app has an opt-in, and a version of the app with an opt-in is awaiting approval at Apple, says CEO Dave Morin in the comments to the original post. Morin has also flat out apologized. This is a  show all text

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In a new tactic for countering the data assault, offices are giving workers a second computer screen and sometimes a third.

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There’s a reason why The Onion’s recent HuffPo-tweaking satire — ‘Huffington Post’ Employee Sucked Into Aggregation Turbine / Horrified Workers Watch As Colleague Torn Apart By Powerful Content-Gathering Engine — resonated with so many reporters. “It’s because nobody wants to feel like a cog,” Salon editor-in-chief Kerry Lauerman told me. “I think it’s our fear as journalists that we’re turning into cogs of a machine.” Lauerman referenced that Onion piece in a Tuesday blog post that outlined a ...  show all text

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The study found that arrests of Muslim Americans in plots or violent attacks have dropped sharply since 2009.

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The paper, struggling to overcome the decline in advertising, has reduced the size of its newsroom staff by more than 200 people over the last three years.

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Jeremy Lin, an Asian-American Harvard graduate, couldn’t find a role in the league. Then he scored 53 points in two games for the Knicks.

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It's beautiful, it's addictive, and now Pinterest is having its glorious hockey stick moment. TechCrunch has attained exclusive data from comScore showing Pinterest just hit 11.7 million unique monthly U.S. visitors, crossing the 10 million mark faster than any other standalone site in history.In fact, users are spending so much time sharing their favorite images that now only Facebook and Tumblr have more social media time on site than Pinterest. Who's propelling its rise? 18-34 year old upper...

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Advocates say that New York's former archbishop reopened wounds in a new interview in which he said that he never should have apologized for the church's handling of the sex-abuse crisis and that no abuse had occurred on his watch.

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Whatever your perspective on how likely Mitt Romney was to lose the Republican nomination race prior to Tuesday evening, it should be acknowledged that he had about the worst results conceivable.

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You can follow someone on Twitter and friend them on Facebook, but real friends are people you break bread with.

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