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
July 12, 2010, 6 p.m.

Links on Twitter: Google’s app-making app, Newsweek’s loss/Tumblr’s gain, NPR’s blogtastic API

For your Instapaper queue: “How journalists create myths and legends, not least about themselves” http://j.mp/a4phIe »

You saw the auditions http://j.mp/av64KX…now see the cast list: JRC has selected its ideaLab staff http://j.mp/apJ5bS »

Remember Newsweek’s Tumblr guy? http://j.mp/91WdbW He’s leaving the mag to work for…Tumblr http://j.mp/c7Eo5P »

Desperate times, etc.: Detroit papers team up to launch the aggregation site Michigan.com (via @jeffjarvis) http://j.mp/9Xz6YQ »

ESPN’s World Cup coverage generated 499 million pageviews http://j.mp/99yhfP »

All of NPR’s blogs–35, with 30,000 posts–are now available on its API http://j.mp/aGasGY »

Cloud watching: how the UK Telegraph has benefited from outsourcing its web operations http://j.mp/98ue0x »

The logic of Legos: Google launches DIY app tool “to enable people to become creators, not just consumers” http://j.mp/b5g8o0 »

POSTED     July 12, 2010, 6 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.