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    Archives: October 2012

    Wednesday Q&A: Jake Levine on the fate of News.me, personalized news, and reinventing Digg
    “One of the things that happens to come with this notion of social discovery is just information overload. Twitter is a great social product, but it’s also a product that will give you 50 articles to read every hour.” Justin Ellis
    The Next Web redesigns to be more app-like
    Justin EllisOctober 31, 2012
    Game on: How Polygon wants to rethink video game journalism
    The new gaming site from Vox Media wants to emphasize engaging community and telling untold stories from the world of gaming.
    Jonathan StrayOctober 31, 2012
    Data, uncertainty, and specialization: What journalism can learn from FiveThirtyEight’s election coverage
    Nate Silver’s number-crunching blog is perceived as a threat by some traditional political reporters — but its model has lessons for all journalists.
    Mark CoddingtonOctober 26, 2012
    This Week in Review: The new iPad mini and Surface tablets, and a BBC scandal hits the Times
    Plus: Newsweek’s demise and magazines’ future, possible newspaper targets for Rupert Murdoch, and the rest of the week’s media and tech news.
    Justin EllisOctober 24, 2012
    BuzzFeed adapts its branded content approach to political advertising, and Obama’s in
    Obama for America becomes the first political group to experiment with BuzzFeed’s new approach to advertising.
    Gary Knell
    NPR CEO Gary Knell: We need to “smash together the digital and so-called audio journalists”
    In a visit to the Nieman Foundation, the NPR boss discusses digital transformation, his earlier work at Sesame Workshop, and political perceptions of Big Bird. Justin Ellis
    Ken DoctorOctober 23, 2012
    The newsonomics of Rupert Murdoch, American publisher
    With his position attacked in the U.K., Murdoch is looking to the United States. Will he find newspapers a worthwhile investment?
    Monday Q&A: Pulitzer-winner Sara Ganim on working the crime beat in the digital age
    “I use Twitter mostly to get the word out, especially when it’s a really intense situation where news is breaking by the minute or second, and a lot of people are working on a story.” Justin Ellis
    Joshua BentonOctober 22, 2012
    Have an idea to help improve journalism? Apply for a new Nieman visiting fellowship
    It’s a chance to come work on a journalism-related project at Harvard, but for a shorter period of time than our traditional Nieman Fellowships.
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