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.”
Nick Denton says Gizmodo's new design focus is aimed at taking advantage of Gawker's discussion platform, Kinja. nie.mn/18QzLAz 
Articles tagged curation (69)
May 6, 2013
April 2, 2013
“People have grown a little skeptical of companies that don’t seem to have a business model and you wonder when they’re going to do something.”
November 21, 2012
Content produced by news companies is increasingly being sent down new paths — from the new advertorial to repurposing old archives.
July 30, 2012
The founder of paidContent wants to grow his new travel venture Skift through curation and data products.
July 25, 2012
There’s too much news for anyone to consume. Three key words should determine who gets served what: Interest, effects, and agency.
July 18, 2012
The Guardian’s U.S. site enlists readers in an ongoing effort to help aggregate news and analysis for top stories.
July 11, 2012
Algorithms can help, but more fundamentally, we need to figure out what we want a diverse pool of information to look like.
June 15, 2012
Plus: Debates over the role of print and paywalls in newspapers’ future, the value of curation, and the rest of the week’s news in media and tech.
May 30, 2012
In the start of a regular column for Nieman Lab, Jonathan Stray argues that a too-narrow definition of the work of journalism limits the field’s potential.
March 16, 2012
Plus: Kony 2012 and the value of online activism, more News Corp. arrests, SXSW news, and the rest of the week’s big stories in media and tech.
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.
Three former Harvard students are mining in-country social media sites to deliver news and viewpoints from Chinese citizens.
December 31, 2011
The cultural critic on what 2012 will bring for branding, diversity, and serendipity…and what hipster angels have to do with the media’s future.
December 23, 2011
Plus: A look at the world of news in 2011 and 2012, a SOPA update, and the rest of this week’s news and commentary in journalism and technology.
December 21, 2011
In the real-time news cycle, social media can — and should — be about much more than conversation.
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