“There’s a sense in which storytelling is really a deep part of our behavior — the way we relate to objects and experiences in the world.”
The value of crowdsourcing can be more than mining social media for sources. nie.mn/JLgvek 
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March 22, 2012
March 21, 2012
We crunch the numbers from Gawker’s pageview-chasing experiment. Oh, and what time does the Super Bowl start?
March 19, 2012
Listenership growth to news/talk/information radio overall has leveled off, but NPR says digital is where the growth is.
March 16, 2012
With little to go on, Twitter users rely a lot on user names and profile images to judge the veracity of tweets.
March 14, 2012
The company is a meta wire service, providing content from hundreds of publishers with a single API.
Knight News Challenge winner Waldo Jaquith says a state code should be designed like a social network.
News.me wants to reveal the conversations happening about stories on news sites.
March 8, 2012
Give a man a fact, or teach him how to fact-check? Truthiness can be more pervasive, and more powerful, than truth.
March 8, 2012
Ford worried that public media was not changing, so he left it for Silicon Valley; now he’s bringing an entrepreneurial spirit back to his roots.
March 6, 2012
Journalists, hackers, and legal scholars discuss the elusive values of truth and objectivity in news.
March 5, 2012
Rob Malda: “You could just run a newspaper into the ground, watch revenues decline, and the sun set. But what we as a culture lose in that scenario is giant.”
March 5, 2012
A new initiative at Duke University is building — and reviewing — software tools to take the drudgery out of investigative and public-affairs journalism.
March 2, 2012
The new CEO discusses connected cars, threats to public funding, and the organization’s fully multi-platform approach to news.
March 1, 2012
News.me wants to create a social network built on news, in the way Instagram is a social network built on pictures.
February 28, 2012
The magazine’s new publisher and editor want to compete with the likes of The Atlantic and The New Yorker.
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