Archives: 2013

Cake featuring the likeness of Nick Denton
Justin EllisFebruary 12, 2013
Jalopnik redesign shows how Gawker Media plans to open up blogging to its readers
The auto blog has a streamlined look and behind-the-scenes features that let the audience create blogs and contribute posts to the site.
Joshua BentonFebruary 11, 2013
“In the struggle against silence, human life is at stake”: Mexican journalist Marcela Turati on reporting during the drug war
The winner of the Louis Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity in Journalism talks about how the perils faced by Mexican journalists caught between the government and the narcos.
Jesse Thorn hits a Bullseye, moves his show to NPR
Thorn hopes the show, which focuses on culture and interviews, will be a good fit for NPR weekends. Justin Ellis
Joshua BentonFebruary 10, 2013
Sky diving algebra teachers, Sudoku-playing baristas: Carl Kasell would like to see you now
Joshua BentonFebruary 10, 2013
Financial Times editor Lionel Barber: “News now is not the newspaper”
February 10, 2013
Nieman Lab News Quiz: February 10, 2023
Mark CoddingtonFebruary 8, 2013
This Week in Review: Paywall dominoes keep falling, and Twitter keeps moving into video
Plus: The debate on aggregation do’s and don’ts, the state of media reporting, and the rest of the week’s news.
Mark ArmstrongFebruary 7, 2013
Mark Armstrong: The death of EveryBlock and why I suddenly care about local
“This is all to say: I think the app or company that ‘solves’ local will probably be a parenting app. Not necessarily a ‘local’ app.”
Ken DoctorFebruary 7, 2013
The newsonomics of pressing innovation
In Ohio, The Columbus Dispatch is finding returns on reinventing its oldest platform — print.
Dan KennedyFebruary 7, 2013
The Boston Globe tightens up as executives seek ‘the optimal balance’ between free and paid
Want to share Globe stories on Twitter? Your readers will hit a paywall after just two clicks a month.
Press Publish 5: C.W. Anderson on metro newspapers’ decline
The author of “Rebuilding the News: Metropolitan Journalism in the Digital Age” talks about what he saw in Philadelphia as the business came tumbling down. Joshua Benton
Chris Hughes on turning The New Republic into a technology company that adapts to readers
The co-founder of Facebook says the relaunched magazine will need to experiment with how its content is delivered and how they engage with advertisers. Justin Ellis
Justin EllisFebruary 5, 2013
Better together: Colorado nonprofit news site I-News and Rocky Mountain PBS join forces
The three-year-old I-News leaves the ranks of small nonprofit news startups and finds a broader audience by merging with Colorado’s largest public TV station.
Adrienne LaFranceFebruary 5, 2013
Social media editors: Do you have a robot deputy?
How an algorithm could change your newsroom’s social publishing strategy.
Mark CoddingtonFebruary 1, 2013
This Week in Review: Vine’s potential and problems, and the new face of The New Republic
Plus: The Washington Post’s real-time fact-checking, hacking attacks against The New York Times, and the rest of the week’s news in media and tech.
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