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?
Nick Denton says Gizmodo's new design focus is aimed at taking advantage of Gawker's discussion platform, Kinja. nie.mn/18QzLAz 
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Facebook is the Internet’s largest social network. Facebook topped 1 billion active users in September 2012 and was the second-most-visited website in the United States, behind Google, as of 2011. Its mobile platform had 751 million active users in 2013. It is also the top source of traffic to the web’s largest portals, such as Yahoo and MSN. Facebook generated…
May 2, 2013
May 1, 2013
Article pages now have added depth and context, providing more opportunities for readers coming from social media to discover more content.
April 5, 2013
Plus: Alternatives to the metered model, Roger Ebert’s death, changes at the Cleveland Plain Dealer, and the rest of the week’s media and tech news.
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.”
April 2, 2013
The Arizona State professor is working on a book project that also looks at journalists’ poor understanding of online security.
March 28, 2013
WorldStream, the Journal’s stream of brief videos built on Tout, is getting premium ad rates and substantial audience numbers.
March 27, 2013
When NGOs act like news organizations, narratives of the Arab Spring, and predicting who you are from what you “like”: all that and more in this month’s roundup of the academic literature.
March 26, 2013
“If we could start to really connect people around story ideas before they’re reported, in a way that makes sense and is using technology in a savvy way and make it efficient to do, we would be really interested in doing that.”
March 21, 2013
Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon are dominating online advertising. How can publishers find profitable niches in their shadows?
March 12, 2013
Der Mundo mashes up translation software to let you share the news no matter what language it was written in.
March 8, 2013
Plus: The Washington Post drops its ombudsman position, a new News Corp. sports venture, and the rest of the week in the future of news.
February 27, 2013
What does an ideal front page look like, can social media usage predict political involvement, and how is user-generated content coming into newsrooms: all that and more in this month’s roundup of the academic literature.
February 22, 2013
Plus: The New York Times Co. tries to sell The Boston Globe, more corporate hacking victims and clues, and the rest of this week’s news.
February 21, 2013
Will The New York Times Co., in a final act of stewardship, take less money for the Globe if it means selling to a buyer who’ll keep its journalism strong?
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