With a bonus bold prediction for 2012: Gene Weingarten will write a disapproving column about the changing news business that is funny but dead wrong.
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Archives: December 2011
December 21, 2011
December 21, 2011
Also: Say goodbye to the homepage as we know it. The future is streaming.
December 21, 2011
Paywalls may become more popular in 2012; that doesn’t mean they’ll be enough to save a flailing industry.
December 21, 2011
As the fourth estate goes digital, Columbia’s Tow Center director argues, it will question its reliance on third-party platforms.
December 20, 2011
If I can trust you to tell me what’s going on, then I don’t care if you work out of a newsroom or out of your garage.
December 20, 2011
The forces that seek to control the free flow of information are bigger than ever, the blogging pioneer argues — and a direct threat to journalism and innovation.
December 20, 2011
Keeping Martin Honest: the 2012 edition.
December 19, 2011
From local TV to journalism co-ops, 2012 may be a banner year for the local news ecosystem.
December 19, 2011
Culture and technology have an interwoven future; we need a tech press, the web pioneer argues, that can do justice to both.
December 19, 2011
Versioning, the software business standby, is making its way into journalism’s business practices.
Results of ProPublica’s annual reader survey: 49% of readers think of ProPublica as nonideological. 25% think it’s moderate. 25% think it’s liberal. (I presume the missing think it’s conservative, although ProPublica doesn’t say.)
But when describing their own leanings, ProPublica readers are 63 percent liberal, 21 percent moderate, and 13 percent non-ideological. (Again, the remaining 3% are unaccounted for, presumably self-identifying conservatives.)
December 16, 2011
Plus: Twitter’s redesign, the debate over how to legally define journalism, and all the rest of this week’s must-reads in media and tech.
December 16, 2011
Owni “doesn’t carry advertisements and publishes all of its content under a Creative Commons license. Selling products — including e-books — is its big bet.”
Our sister publication Nieman Reports is out with its new issue, all about the intersections of journalism and book publishing. To go along with that issue, one of our other sister publications, Nieman Storyboard, had this smart post on the mistakes journos make when they transition to book-length work.
Check out this Marshall Allen ProPublica story and switch on “Explore Sources.” Cited facts get a highlight and an an onclick popup showing the DocumentCloud annotation that supports it. Pretty cool. Built by Al Shaw on the ProPublica end and Ted Han on the DocCloud end.
Two thoughts: The hooks built for this are available to other DocumentCloud users to build similar tools. (ProPublica plans on open sourcing the annotizer, but it may be a while.) And this on/off UI makes me think it could be useful to built a generic UI for this sort of optional annotation (with links to supporting documents instead of embeds).
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