Nieman Foundation at Harvard
HOME
          
LATEST STORY
Would you pay to be able to quit TikTok and Instagram? You’d be surprised how many would
ABOUT                    SUBSCRIBE
Sept. 24, 2009, 2 p.m.

Links on Twitter: Americans oppose tax-dollar support for newspapers, Gawker Media’s image-based scoops, Twitter wary of geodata subpoenas

78% of Americans oppose spending tax dollars to support newspapers in financial trouble http://tr.im/zBof »

Why a link from Yahoo drives unparalleled traffic: They have a 48% market share of U.S. portal front pages http://tr.im/zBxv »

I find Andrew Breitbart loathsome, but @jackshafer‘s praise is a pitch-perfect ode to American journalism http://tr.im/zBp8 »

Nick Denton says pictures are the common thread in Gawker Media’s big scoops http://tl.gd/icei More: http://j.mp/4lGYKL »

We might see more of this: Austin American-Statesman runs an ad for local business in its Twitter feed http://tr.im/zCf2 »

To avoid subpoenas, Twitter will scrub new location metadata from tweets after 14 days http://tr.im/zE86 (HT @citmedialaw»

POSTED     Sept. 24, 2009, 2 p.m.
PART OF A SERIES     Twitter
Show tags
 
Join the 60,000 who get the freshest future-of-journalism news in our daily email.
Would you pay to be able to quit TikTok and Instagram? You’d be surprised how many would
“The relationship he has uncovered is more like the co-dependence seen in a destructive relationship, or the way we relate to addictive products such as tobacco that we know are doing us harm.”
BREAKING: The ways people hear about big news these days; “into a million pieces,” says source
The New York Times and the Washington Post compete with meme accounts for the chance to be first with a big headline.
In 1924, a magazine ran a contest: “Who is to pay for broadcasting and how?” A century later, we’re still asking the same question
Radio Broadcast received close to a thousand entries to its contest — but ultimately rejected them all.