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Pushing to the future of journalism — A project of the Nieman Foundation at Harvard

Articles by Adrienne LaFrance

Adrienne LaFrance is a national reporter for Digital First Media’s Project Thunderdome, where she specializes in investigative reporting and breaking news. Adrienne was previously a staff reporter at the Lab. Before that she opened the Washington bureau of Honolulu Civil Beat, where she covered Congress, federal elections, and the intersection of money and politics. Adrienne has also reported and written for The Washington Post, worked as a news producer at WBUR, Boston’s NPR affiliate, and as a local news anchor for Hawaii’s NPR affiliate.
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March 25, 2013
The paper is including a print replica with an iPad-optimized layout and moving into Apple’s Newsstand.
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March 22, 2013
Goodbye The Local East Village — hello Bedford + Bowery.
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February 5, 2013
How an algorithm could change your newsroom’s social publishing strategy.
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January 23, 2013
After 13 months, The New York Times this week discontinued its elections app rather than turn it into a general politics app. Here’s what they learned along the way.
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January 22, 2013
A few hints of web-native storytelling are in the Times’ repackaged print sections.
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December 10, 2012
The tech news site, which started out in Philadelphia and spread to Baltimore, is heading to bigger markets — Boston and D.C. are coming, too.
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As retailers court holiday shoppers, news companies try to get in on the action.
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November 1, 2012
“If news organizations are about keeping you up to date, Upworthy is more about reminding you what matters.”
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October 18, 2012
Crowdsourcing and computer intelligence help reverse-engineer campaign targeting.
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October 17, 2012
You’re going to need a strong network, a project with an end point, and some luck.
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October 12, 2012
Media companies experiment with creating elections tools for social engagement.
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October 10, 2012
After being sold over the summer, the newspaper is hiring about 50 editorial staffers and adding new print sections — because print’s where the money is.
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October 9, 2012
As The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post continue to experiment with video, the challenge is not to reinvent television.
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October 2, 2012
Josh Marshall: “What I noticed is that we didn’t have really strong internal financial incentives focused on our core readers.”