Nieman Foundation at Harvard
HOME
          
LATEST STORY
Seeking “innovative,” “stable,” and “interested”: How The Markup and CalMatters matched up
ABOUT                    SUBSCRIBE

Articles tagged Wikipedia (56)

Also see results from other Nieman sites
When you commit to explaining the important issues in the news, you commit to a life of updating. What’s the best way to manage a corpus of news knowledge with an uncertain half-life?
Plus: Heartbleed exposes the Internet’s vulnerability, the alleged decline of the mobile web, and the rest of the week’s must-reads in journalism and tech.
Finding a great profile or in-depth interview can be like finding a needle in a haystack; Google’s new algorithm is here to help.
“What I’m really hoping to learn is actually just, how do we make use of all these new media as what is essentially publishing is becoming software, and software is becoming content? These things are sort of meeting in the middle.”
A study of the social news site’s voting behavior finds that about half of its most popular links died quiet deaths on first submission.
Money from the Knight News Challenge will be used to grow Wikipedia Zero, a project that makes the site more accessible on feature phones. Justin Ellis
The common thread through several of the eight winners: turning underpowered phones into information engines. Joshua Benton