Comments on: Say what you will about Newsweek…but don’t forget about their Tumblr

By: Tumbling into journalism: Tumblr’s newsy tag pages » Nieman Journalism Lab » Pushing to the Future of Journalism

Wed, 02 Feb 2011 15:31:53 +0000

[...] little while ago, I exchanged emails with Mark Coatney, Tumblr’s media evangelist (we wrote about him when he was Newsweek’s Tumblr evangelist), to discuss the curated tag pages. Coatney said the [...]

By: Tumblr – the answer to light blogging? | Social Glitz

Tumblr – the answer to light blogging? | Social Glitz — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 12:46:54 +0000

[...] though Tumblr was started in 2007 and boasts over 3 million users, it seems to be picking up steam in recent months as more and more people (and businesses) get comfortable sharing in the social media space. [...]

By: Playing it by ear: The Atlantic joins the magazine-Tumbling fray in embracing experimentation » Nieman Journalism Lab

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 16:01:26 +0000

[...] popping up under the banners of national news outlets. There’s Newsweek’s praiseworthy specimen — the most buzzed-about of the bunch — but there’s also The New [...]

By: clarev

clarev — Mon, 10 May 2010 22:18:31 +0000

Do you know ANYone who is not an East Coast media producer who actually a)knows what a Tumblr is and
b)reads Tumblrs any on a regular basis –that are not produced by them or their friends? It seems to me that it is a phenomenon of NY media people talking to New York media people. Not a small group to be sure, but not exactly something to build the future of a media outlet on, however creative. Personally, I have never even heard anyone MENTION Tumblr outside these circles.