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John WihbeyJuly 29, 2014

What’s New in Digital and Social Media Research: What makes commenters less civil, and the rise of digital longform

When journalists factcheck politicians (or don’t), how to flag bad behavior on social media, and getting past slactivism: all that and more in this month’s roundup of the academic literature.

Mark CoddingtonSeptember 6, 2013

This Week in Review: Bezos’ vision for The Post, and covering Syria on the ground and abroad

Plus: the latest in government surveillance, studies on online anonymity and campaign journalism, and the rest of the week’s future-of-news news.

Mark CoddingtonJuly 26, 2013

This Week in Review: Nate Silver takes his talents to ESPN, and can Google’s Chromecast change TV?

Plus: The death of Helen Thomas, James Risen and the shield law, and the rest of the week’s journalism and tech must-reads.

Caroline O'DonovanJune 12, 2013

Would you click a “Respect” button more than a “Like” button? Experiments in tweaking news reader behavior for democracy

The Engaging News Project want to know if that and other small cues and prompts can encourage people to seek points of view different from their own.

What news orgs can learn from political campaigns, starting with the tough stuff

Mark CoddingtonFebruary 22, 2013

This Week in Review: Negotiating the press’s presidential access, and does Yahoo’s redesign matter?

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.

Herbert J. GansFebruary 1, 2013

Journalism for democracy

“Journalists have to consider how American politics has changed since modern journalism first formulated the conventions and norms for covering politics.”

Lessons from The New York Times’ app graveyard: When an app has an expiration date

After 13 months, The New York Times this week discontinued its elections app rather than turn it into a general politics app. Here’s what they learned along the way. Adrienne LaFrance

Press Publish 3: Jay Rosen on the public, how the press thinks, and the production of innocence

The NYU professor and scholar talks about his intellectual influences, how he thinks the press did in 2012, and how much of an audience there’ll be for civic-minded journalism. Joshua Benton

Herbert J. GansNovember 28, 2012

Citizen news: A democratic addition to political journalism

Sociologist Herbert Gans argues it’s time for political reporting to stop focusing solely on the elites and experiment with new models for bottom-up journalism.

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