media : Innovation & Job News

“If you were to watch cable and traditional TV shows, you’d see [black] women fighting each other on reality TV. If you see black men, they're in the news as criminals. That’s not the true makeup of the African diaspora.”

Allyson Jacob, innovation news editor since Elevation DC first began publishing news in January 2013, has written her last piece for the publication.

The minds of entrepreneurs and innovators will meet in downtown D.C. Friday and Saturday as the Fosterly community combines Day of Fosterly and GovFest into one giant conference called Collaborate.

Our twice-monthly list of hot jobs in DC Tech. 

Veenome, an indexing and analytics platform for video that started in Northern Virginia in 2011, has grown into a second, NY-based location.

The creator of Openreporter, a LinkedIn for journalists, will soon launch Bulletin, a mobile app that connects citizens, reporters and experts to collaboratively improve the news.

Orate, a company born from D.C.'s 2014 Startup Weekend, is incubating at The Startup Factory in Durham, NC. When the cofounders return to D.C. in November, they will already have money in the bank.

NetRef, a product from Verite Group's newly spunoff Verite Educational Systems, lets teachers and parents control Internet device access from one screen.

Betterific, a digital suggestion box that facilitates user feedback campaigns for brands large and small, has launched its first physical product, one based on the "idea that launched the company."

YaSabe, the bilingual search engine and data crawler out of Herndon, is making waves by partnering with traditional media outlets as they expand their digital reach.

Every other week Elevation DC brings you news of tech startups that are hiring. Read on for this week's roundup.

EWC Presenter was built as an alternative to Flash. A year in, the startup has 50,000 users, a new name and lots of new features.

A curated list of job openings in the greater D.C. area.

He's a producer, he's a founder, he's a VC...he's even painted fences. This week, Elevation DC spends 60 seconds with Startupland creator and producer and Fortify Ventures managing director Jonathon Perrelli.

InSITE CONNECT DC, a semi-annual pitch event, gave InSITE fellows--MBA and JD students at Georgetown--a chance to showcase the startups they've been working with all year.