[Not too long ago, it was clear who was a producer of news — and who were the sources who fed them. Not so in a world where the production of media has been democratized, and the rules that governed that production are up in the air. In this essay, journalist Glenda Cooper examines several [...]

[Our sister publication Nieman Reports is out with its latest issue, and its focus is the impact of social media on journalism. There are lots of interesting articles, and we'll be highlighting a few here over the next few days. Here's a piece by Shane Richmond of The Daily Telegraph about how engagement with the [...]

Okay, question time: Imagine you’re a major national newspaper whose crosstown archrival has somehow obtained two million pages of explosive documents that outed your country’s biggest political scandal of the decade. They’ve had a team of professional journalists on the job for a month, slamming out a string of blockbuster stories as they find them [...]

Now that’s market research for you.

London Tory broadsheet The Telegraph is reversing the traditional copyflow: having reporters post their stories online, then editing them once they’re up. Assistant editor Justin Williams:
We’re experimenting with post moderation on web stories — so we have either the desk or, in an increasing number of instances, writers publishing all stories direct to the website. [...]