Nieman Foundation at Harvard
HOME
          
LATEST STORY
The California Google deal could leave out news startups and the smallest publishers
ABOUT                    SUBSCRIBE
Feb. 1, 2011, 6 p.m.

Links on Twitter: Google and Twitter team up, redesign rollout at Gawker sites and a comp. journalism reading list

Assessing Patch and its effect on hyperlocal journalism http://nie.mn/fLZOIt »

Is it time for news organizations to speak in favor of Net Neutrality? http://nie.mn/fAtKuv »

Interested in computer science and journalism? Jonathan Stray presents a computational journalism reading list http://nie.mn/fq0FrI »

CitizenTube has a constantly updated collection of videos coming from Egypt http://nie.mn/hUeA5x »

"Why did you do this to me? Change is scary!" Jalopnik among the first with new layout from Gawker Media http://jalopnik.com/ »

Post-script: The @Niemanstory editors’ roundtable examine’s Time’s coverage of the AZ shootings http://nie.mn/fAVEIX »

Americans love TV, then the Internet, and somewhere down the line, books, according to survey http://nie.mn/g0GXw3 »

USAToday and IRE team-up to offer analysis-ready Census data to members http://nie.mn/eLcM7I »

Is working in "the salt mines of the aggregator" the new "paying your dues" in journalism? http://nie.mn/g4O3Dk »

CSI: API – ProPublica is offering up its state and county level data on medical examiners in the US http://nie.mn/e8tI2w »

Project, the iPad magazine, has seen some success at $2.99, editors say http://nie.mn/dQdkgT »

Al Jazeera English is using ScribbleLive to get updates out of Egypt quickly http://nie.mn/h8Kmj7 »

Can we glean lessons on The Daily (and News Corp) from iGuide, a digital product that didn’t make it? http://nie.mn/fA424E »

Readability wants users to read later, and publishers get to get a cut http://nie.mn/gaoBCz »

How Google and Twitter teamed up to use voicemail to get Tweets out of Egypt http://nie.mn/guzBMe »

POSTED     Feb. 1, 2011, 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 California Google deal could leave out news startups and the smallest publishers
“We don’t know whether or how this nonprofit and its fund will operate, and likely won’t for some months (nonprofit governance is many things, but fast is not one of them).”
With an expansion on the way, Ken Doctor’s Lookout thinks it has some answers to the local news crisis
After finding success — and a Pulitzer Prize — in Santa Cruz, Lookout aims to replicate its model in Oregon. “All of these playbooks are at least partially written. You sometimes hear people say, ‘Nobody’s figured it out yet.’ But this is all about execution.”
Big tech is painting itself as journalism’s savior. We should tread carefully.
“We set out to explore how big tech’s ‘philanthrocapitalism’ could be reshaping the news industry, focusing on countries in the Global South…Our findings suggest an emerging web of dependency between cash-strapped newsrooms and Silicon Valley’s deep pockets.”