The Times doesn’t want to be “so serious all the time that you end up being just a dreadful bore at the dinner party, you know? Nobody wants that, either. We want to be entertaining as well, we want to have some fun. It doesn’t have to all be heavy and brooding.”
In Belgium, newspaper publishers collaborate to survey reader behaviors based on topics and themes. nie.mn/14euBdD 
Articles tagged aggregation (138)
May 6, 2013
May 2, 2013
Flipboard, Zite, Pulse, and their peers are giving news companies a second chance at dealing with the rise of aggregators. Will they come out of this round any better than the last?
April 30, 2013
It’s yet another startup in the news filtering space, trying to get the attention of a user base.
March 8, 2013
Kenneth Cukier, coauthor of “Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work and Think,” applies his findings to his position as data editor of The Economist.
February 8, 2013
Plus: The debate on aggregation do’s and don’ts, the state of media reporting, and the rest of the week’s news.
January 22, 2013
A few hints of web-native storytelling are in the Times’ repackaged print sections.
January 10, 2013
It’s a rare moment: Legacy media leading the way on digital strategy, and watching the web-only guys follow behind.
December 20, 2012
2013 could end up making 2012 seem calm by comparison.
December 10, 2012
As algorithms play an ever-larger role in how we get news and information, it’s important to realize the ways that bias — intentional or not — can seep into their decisions.
November 21, 2012
Content produced by news companies is increasingly being sent down new paths — from the new advertorial to repurposing old archives.
October 31, 2012
Nate Silver’s number-crunching blog is perceived as a threat by some traditional political reporters — but its model has lessons for all journalists.
October 18, 2012
What’s the right way to respond when technology disrupts the position of an established business? The Harvard Business School professor has lessons for the news business from other industries.
September 20, 2012
We access news on multiple devices. Shouldn’t those devices be smart enough to connect our actions to their presentation?
September 13, 2012
Atlantic Media’s new business site has the advantage of starting with a strategic clean slate. Now, it’s all about execution.
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