From entrepreneurial growth, the progression of the digital media and biotechnology industries, and the development of the new multi-billion dollar medical corridor, New Orleans has witnessed an economic renaissance that is bringing new companies and investments into the region for the first time.

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The letter also urged the UK government to channel funding through a "new and accountable multi-media Welsh media commission" that could "sustain a national culture and help steer media development in Wales flexibly in a period of vital change across traditional and new media".

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The current discussion about 21st century skills leads classrooms and other learning environments to encourage the development of core subject knowledge as well as new media literacies, critical and systems thinking, interpersonal and self-directional skills.

UNESCO: EDUCATION

Led by Michael Levine, the Joan Ganz Cooney Center is doing some of the best research I know of around education, child development, and new media.

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Marketers were skilled at using the new emerging media (the mass-market newspapers that had been enabled by the development of cheap printing technologies in the 1890s) to sell, but not particularly interested in the full-spectrum risk-taking required of true entrepreneurs.

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