All entries tagged: news alerts
Talking Points Memo explores a membership model, but no paywall
Talking Points Memo spent the weekend asking its readers for advice on building a mobile strategy. (See these three posts.) Two of their findings are of interest to future-of-journalism types:
— The Kindle remains a half-hearted medium for news, an awkward mix of book-centric tech and news organizations searching for marginal revenue. Here’s TPM top boss [...]
How a CNN user propelled the network into Twitter’s top slot — or why CNN headlines are so short
James Cox just wanted the news on his phone. But the year was 2006, and if you can remember that distant age, getting the latest headlines on your mobile device wasn’t yet trivially easy.
CNN already had a longstanding email news alert that hit inboxes whenever a plane crashed or foreign capital fell. And out in [...]
