Nieman Foundation at Harvard
HOME
          
LATEST STORY
Audience editors offer advice for “dispiriting” times in social and search
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.
Audience editors offer advice for “dispiriting” times in social and search
Journalists assume readers are as obsessed with the news as they are. They’re wrong.
Universities are mapping where local news outlets are still thriving — and where gaps persist
“Just as the local news landscape has evolved, so has local news mapping.”
The Conversation is trying to make its academia-fueled model work for local news
“I get the challenges small startups face trying to fill this void of local news. So this is our little attempt to support them in our Conversation way.”