Archives: 2013

Jonathan StrayApril 10, 2013
How does a country get to open data? What Taiwan can teach us about the evolution of access
Assumptions about government openness vary from country to country. Here are a few lessons a cross-national perspective can bring to the open data movement.
Joshua BentonApril 9, 2013
When travel bloggers get paid to travel
Joshua BentonApril 9, 2013
Quartz adds offline reading for mobile and tablets
Justin EllisApril 9, 2013
Design isn’t just for the big guys: In Memphis, the Commercial Appeal retells MLK’s last 32 hours
“We’re really committed to figuring this out. It’s a big experiment for us, obviously. There’s a lot to learn.”
PolitiFact editor Bill Adair in the "Star Chamber"
Caroline O'DonovanApril 9, 2013
Tuesday Q&A: Bill Adair on leaving PolitiFact for academia and the Simon & Garfunkel theory of presidential coverage
The PolitiFact founder, headed to a professorship at Duke, reflects on the fact-checking boom and talks about preparing the next generation of journalists.
Joshua BentonApril 9, 2013
In Poland, get an online film festival with your digital news subscription
Joshua BentonApril 8, 2013
Distance to Mars, a good argument for simple web interactives
Valérie Bélair-Gagnon, Smeeta Mishra, and Colin AgurApril 8, 2013
Emerging spaces for storytelling: Journalistic lessons from social media in the Delhi gang rape case
The widely reported crime and the resulting protests were a watershed moment in India’s use of social media in hard news coverage, according to three researchers.
Joshua BentonApril 8, 2013
Four design principles for your mobile app
Loes WitschgeApril 8, 2013
Getting personal: A Dutch online news platform wants you to subscribe to individual journalists
De Nieuwe Pers is betting there’s a business model to be built on the connection between an individual journalist and an individual reader.
A Dutch crowdfunded news site has raised $1.3 million and hopes for a digital-native journalism
Says the editor of De Correspondent: “I don’t believe in ‘the news’ in the objective sense of the word. You can describe the world in infinite ways, and ‘the news’ happens to be one of them.” Loes Witschge
Mark CoddingtonApril 5, 2013
This Week in Review: What Facebook Home will do to mobile, and retiring “illegal immigrant”
Plus: Alternatives to the metered model, Roger Ebert’s death, changes at the Cleveland Plain Dealer, and the rest of the week’s media and tech news.
Joshua BentonApril 4, 2013
Bloomberg terminal, meet Twitter
Jeff IsraelyApril 4, 2013
Jeff Israely: Don’t you call me subsidized — people are paying for news
Our startup correspondent, building Worldcrunch in Paris, says that paywalls don’t have to mean getting off the open web.
Caroline O'DonovanApril 3, 2013
Intercontinental collaboration: How 86 journalists in 46 countries can work on a single investigation
Over 2.5 million files analyzed by a global team of journalists reveal financial information about politicians, fundraisers, and celebrities from over 170 different countries.
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