Nieman Foundation at Harvard
HOME
          
LATEST STORY
The media becomes an activist for democracy
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.
The media becomes an activist for democracy
“We cannot be neutral about this, by definition. A free press that doesn’t agitate for democracy is an oxymoron.”
Embracing influencers as allies
“News organizations will increasingly rely on digital creators not just as amplifiers but as integral partners in storytelling.”
Action over analysis
“We’ve overindexed on problem articulation, to the point of problem admiring. The risk is that we are analyzing ourselves into inaction and irrelevance.”