From the protests in Hong Kong to Occupy and Sandy in New York, a new generation of tools is allowing communities to connect without using the Internet. Can they have a use in news too?
| 2588 tweets | Don’t try too hard to please Twitter — and other lessons from The New York Times’ social media desk The team that runs the Times’ Twitter accounts looked back on what they learned — what worked, what didn’t — from running @NYTimes in 2014. |
| 728 | From explainers to sounds that make you go “Whoa!”: The 4 types of audio that people share How can public radio make audio that breaks big on social media? A NPR experiment identified what makes a piece of audio go viral. |
| 705 | Q&A: Amy O’Leary on eight years of navigating digital culture change at The New York Times “In 2007, as digital people, we were expected to be 100 percent deferent to all traditional processes. We weren’t to bother reporters or encourage them to operate differently at all, because what they were doing was the very core of our journalism.” |
