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Articles by Lois Beckett

Lois Beckett is currently an intern at ProPublica. She has written for newspapers in Ghana and Pennsylvania, as well as for an Indian fashion magazine. Most recently, she was a Village Voice Media fellow at the SF Weekly in San Francisco. She graduated from Harvard in 2009 with a degree in Social Studies. Lois can be reached via Twitter or e-mail: loisbeckett [at] gmail.
Instapaper, Read It Later, Byliner
July 20, 2011
Instapaper, Read It Later, Byliner: Platform founders on the pageview economics of time-shifted reading
A generation of tools make articles more readable by stripping away ads — but is it at the expense of publishers’ underlying economics?
June 21, 2011
A discovery engine for narrative nonfiction: Byliner.com launches with high hopes and a sleek site
June 3, 2011
The news/analysis divorce: Who gets custody of the cash?
May 26, 2011
Longreads is becoming more social (and making a play at sustainability)
April 25, 2011
With three cups of luck, Byliner builds pre-launch buzz for its longform-focused platform
March 17, 2011
“Please stop calling it a wall”: First thoughts on the Times’ pay plan
March 11, 2011
A WordPress for news orgs: Knight gives Bay Citizen, Texas Tribune $975,000 for open-source CMS
March 3, 2011
“The price you pay for asking people to pay the price”: Gerry Marzorati on class and the NYT paywall
March 1, 2011
A hive of long-form journalists: Gerry Marzorati and Mark Danner on a new model for long form
February 23, 2011
The context-based news cycle: editor John O’Neil on the future of The New York Times’ Topics Pages
January 21, 2011
“There’s a lot of pressure to play for the short term”: The Bay Citizen’s editor on its $15 million future
January 19, 2011
1.4 million fans can’t be wrong: NPR’s Facebook page
January 19, 2011
“Gee, you guys are spending an awful lot of money”: The Bay Citizen editor on funding quality news
December 20, 2010
Maybe not much will change at all: 2011 journalism predictions from Malik, Gillmor, Golis, Grimm, more
December 17, 2010
DDoS attacks on the U.S. media, Twitter history searching, and a big blog deal: More predictions for 2011
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