Bill Wasik begins his book, And Then There’s This, with a “plea to future historians.” Well, when the early history of online news is written, a crucial document will be the memo distributed at a Politico staff meeting on July 21, 2008. Written by the news site’s chief White House correspondent, Mike Allen, a veteran [...]

Behold the power of Yahoo: A link at the top of the site’s front page helped send more than 9 million page views to The New York Times in the span of two hours last week, breaking records for web traffic at the newspaper. That’s per a memo sent to staffers this morning, which said [...]

One of the most popular hashtags on Twitter today is #iagaymarriage, which people are using to comment on this morning’s Iowa Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriage. That’s fairly standard for big, breaking news, but this isn’t: The hashtag was created by Iowa’s largest newspaper, The Des Moines Register.
In anticipation of the ruling, the Register’s [...]

Today America refreshes. Browsers across the country will be furiously reloading, as very little and then a ton of news hits the web on Election Day. Here are some notes on what to look for:
— At The Washington Post, the most significant innovation won’t be obvious to readers. Elizabeth Spayd, editor of washingtonpost.com , [...]