“We knew from the outset that it was incredibly important to foster a really robust and vibrant conversation on these issues, and we knew, also, that it’s really easy for conversations about race, ethnicity, and culture to go off the rails.”
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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Read our Encyclo entry on Twitter
Twitter is a social network and microblogging platform. The service is built on 140-character messages called tweets, which live on the web and can be read by anyone, although some users opt to make their accounts private. Twitter also allows users to “follow,” or subscribe to, other users’ tweets and — through replies to and…
May 13, 2013
May 9, 2013
“Twitter is known for three things. It’s known for the Arab Spring, it’s known for Justin Bieber, and it’s known for narcissism.”
May 8, 2013
A year after a radical redesign — favoring atomized, live, streaming news over traditional stories — ITV online director Julian March explains how the site generated massive audience growth.
May 6, 2013
While Boston.com focused on community outreach and delivering “what you need to know,” BostonGlobe.com delved into traditional reporting backed by multimedia and interactive graphics.
May 3, 2013
Plus: Twitter’s security problem for news orgs, and the rest of the week’s media and tech news.
May 2, 2013
From Lockerbie to Richard Jewell to anthrax: The Boston Marathon bombings were far from the first incident to spark inaccurate reporting about an alleged suspect. Here’s what the case law tells us about liability.
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 30, 2013
It’s yet another startup in the news filtering space, trying to get the attention of a user base.
April 26, 2013
Plus: Sexism and the Times’ Jill Abramson, the AP gets hacked on Twitter, and the rest of the week’s media and tech news.
April 24, 2013
A discussion on reporting in traumatic situations — “Sandy Hook and Beyond” — highlights the gaps in perception between those being covered and those doing the covering.
April 23, 2013
“It certainly takes courage to speak — but it takes a different kind of courage to be silent, to listen, to trust, and speak when the time is right.”
April 19, 2013
Plus: Medium and Matter join forces, journalism education discussion, and the rest of the week’s journalism and tech reads.
April 17, 2013
Nieman Visiting Fellow Hong Qu analyzes the role social media played in breaking the news of the Boston Marathon attack.
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