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Articles tagged explainers (10)

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Megan Garber    November 4, 2011
Better know a district: ProPublica adds to its music video arsenal with “The Redistricting Song”
Accountability journalism, MTV-style.
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Megan Garber    August 25, 2011
Making a market: How ProPublica blends news that wins Pulitzers with news that wins followers
The investigative outfit explores “aggregation in the public interest.”
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Andrew Phelps    July 27, 2011
A superhero can’t fix the debt crisis, but he can explain it
Lois Beckett    December 1, 2010
ProPublica and Jay Rosen’s Studio 20 class at NYU team up to build — and share — “a better explainer”
Megan Garber    August 12, 2010
Marketplace brings a Twittery approach to the explainer
Mark Coddington    April 16, 2010
This Week in Review: News talk and tips at ASNE, iPad’s ‘walled garden,’ and news execs look for revenue
Joshua Benton    April 13, 2010
Can explainers be the basis for a revenue stream? Voice of San Diego’s Scott Lewis thinks so
Megan Garber    March 30, 2010
What does This American Life look like? A designer visualizes the radio
Mark Coddington    March 12, 2010
This Week in Review: Plagiarism and the link, location and context at SXSW, and advice for newspapers
Mark Coddington    February 19, 2010
This Week in Review: iPad news apps emerge, plagiarism on the web, and a first for citizen journalism
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How NPR drove traffic to a local station by geotargeting stories on Facebook
When NPR shared links to KPLU stories on its Facebook page — only visible to people in the Seattle area — the station’s website got record traffic.
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This Week in Review: Facebook’s future and the open web, and finding balance on breaking news
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KNC 2.0: The Knight News Challenge revamps to quicken the pace of journalism innovation
The Knight Foundation is opening up its contest by changing its rules and shortening the gestation period for ideas.
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The Wall Street Journal covers Fashion Week fashionably, finding uses for Pinterest and Instagram
The Journal has found the perfect story for two image-heavy social networks.
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The newsonomics of the death and life of California news
In the Bay Area, in Los Angeles, in San Diego — the traditional boundaries of California journalism are shifting fast.
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What Charlie Sheen taught Salon about being original
The online magazine shifted its emphasis from aggregation to original content and saw its traffic jump.
OpenNews aims to satiate demand for news-savvy coders… or is it code-savvy journalists?
News organizations are sold on the need for coding skills — but but now there aren’t enough developers to fill jobs.
Anticipation and expectation: Did Esquire’s story trailer work?
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Reuters productizes social media through Social Pulse
The new effort tries to package raw social data in ways that even an exec could get into.

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