Archives: 2013

Press Publish 10: Tiffany Shackelford on the future of alt weeklies after the Boston Phoenix
They face many of the same financial challenges as their daily peers — how many alt weeklies can navigate a path to sustainability? Joshua Benton
Joshua BentonApril 3, 2013
A new tool for extracting tables of data from PDFs
Ken DoctorApril 3, 2013
The newsonomics of the Orange County Register’s contrarian paywall
Aaron Kushner and Co. are bucking the emerging conventional wisdom around paywalls and trying new twists on some popular ideas.
Caroline O'DonovanApril 3, 2013
Andrew Sullivan calls The Dish his “blog,” “husband,” and “Breaking Bad” — but is it working?
Eric Allen BeenApril 3, 2013
Douglas Rushkoff wants you to quit TweetDeck and just read a book (preferably his)
“Present shock is basically the human response to living in a world where everything happens at once. Where we can no longer think about the future, because this moment is everything.”
Joshua BentonApril 2, 2013
What should a story budget look like for a digital newsroom?
Tuesday Q&A: Storify’s Burt Herman on entrepreneurial journalism, advertising, and finding the right business model
“People have grown a little skeptical of companies that don’t seem to have a business model and you wonder when they’re going to do something.” Justin Ellis
Caroline O'DonovanApril 2, 2013
Dan Gillmor says journalists are uninformed about who controls the platforms they publish on
The Arizona State professor is working on a book project that also looks at journalists’ poor understanding of online security.
Joshua BentonApril 1, 2013
Inside Business Insider: The New Yorker profiles Henry Blodget
Caroline O'DonovanApril 1, 2013
Shaping technology to the story: The Brown Institute for Media Innovation is finding its niche
“Sometimes the technology leads, and sometimes, the journalism has to lead.”
Not an April Fool’s joke: The New York Times has built a haiku bot
Times Haiku are generated from stories on the homepage of NYTimes.com, just in time for National Poetry Month. Justin Ellis
Texas Tribune expands its niche email business with In the Flow
The twice-a-month newsletter on water issues is part of a broader plan to grow its email newsletter business. Justin Ellis
Mark CoddingtonMarch 29, 2013
This Week in Review: Paywall prospects in the U.K., and making sense of two Yahoo deals
Plus: Flipboard’s big edit-your-own-magazine overhaul, the future of RSS, U.S. government secrecy, and the rest of the week’s media and tech news.
Joshua BentonMarch 28, 2013
Storify debuts a premium plan for publishers
Caroline O'DonovanMarch 28, 2013
At The Wall Street Journal, a smartphone app has reporters on board for shooting video
WorldStream, the Journal’s stream of brief videos built on Tout, is getting premium ad rates and substantial audience numbers.
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