Dawn Garcia and I discuss the changes in the program in a series of short videos, posted here.

I’ve written about how we planned the changes in the Knight Fellowships program, and it’s posted here on the Poynter Institute website.

Jay Rosen did an IM interview with me earlier in December and a lightly edited version of it is posted here.

Kristen Taylor, the Knight Foundation’s online community manager, interviewed me about the changes we’re instituting for Knight Pulse, a new Knight Foundation site discussing the evolution of information and its impact on communities.

Columbia Journalism Review has an excellent piece on how journalists might productively think about information overload. It makes a number of points, including these: Information overload can lead to a “learned helplessness” response. Many news media are contributing to this learned helplessness rather than helping their users; they’re diminishing the value of the information they present rather than adding to it. And journalists need emphatically to give up the gatekeeper notion, and think of themselves more as guides. The article is long, but worth it.