Jacob Harris » Nieman Journalism Lab » Pushing to the Future of Journalism

Articles tagged Jacob Harris (12)

Joseph LichtermanJune 10, 2014

Chatting with bots: How Slack is changing how newsrooms talk amongst themselves

Only a few months old, the chat app has gotten major uptake in digitally savvy newsrooms. Death to email!

When print constrains digital: layout, workflow, structure

New York Times improves its recommendations engine

Think twice before using Twitter as a data source

The New Yorker launches Strongbox. What are the experts saying?

Not an April Fool’s joke: The New York Times has built a haiku bot

Times Haiku are generated from stories on the homepage of NYTimes.com, just in time for National Poetry Month. Justin Ellis

OpenNews Learning wants to provide lessons to developers in and out of newsrooms

The latest project from the Knight-Mozilla collaboration is a set of online case studies written by developers and designers working in journalism. Justin Ellis

Chrys WuMarch 6, 2013

Data science, commoditized backends, and the need to know code: A roundup of NICAR 2013

The annual gathering of data journalists, stats junkies, and other assorted investigators just wrapped up in Louisville. Here are some of the highlights from Chrys Wu’s annual summary.

Tyson EvansDecember 20, 2012

“Updated horse parser”: The year in journo-code commit messages

People who work with code leave messages with each update they make. These are their (short) stories.

Andrew PhelpsMay 25, 2012

How a New York Times developer reverse engineered @Horse_ebooks –An Interesting

Journalists should always be hacking, trying to tell stories in surprising new ways.

Older articles

789 tweets	Snapchat’s new Discover feature could be a significant moment in the evolution of mobile news By putting mobile-native news adjacent to messages from friends, Snapchat could be helping create part of the low-friction news experience many want and need.

750	Snapchat stories: Here’s how 6 news orgs are thinking about the chat app From live events to behind-the-scenes tours, The Huffington Post, Fusion, Mashable, NPR, Philly.com, and The Verge tell us how they’re approaching Snapchat.

714	Here’s how the BBC, disrupted by technology and new habits, is thinking about its future The British broadcaster released a new report looking at the future of news as it looks toward its royal charter renewal in 2017.