Archives: 2013

Jeffrey HermesJanuary 24, 2013
A court case against those skeezy mugshot websites raises First Amendment issues
In going after mugshot sites, a plaintiff in Toledo is seeking to make the right of publicity extend to non-endorsement uses of people’s images.
Lessons from The New York Times’ app graveyard: When an app has an expiration date
After 13 months, The New York Times this week discontinued its elections app rather than turn it into a general politics app. Here’s what they learned along the way. Adrienne LaFrance
Joshua BentonJanuary 23, 2013
The new American newspaper is shorter and narrower
Sam PetullaJanuary 23, 2013
Feelings, nothing more than feelings: The measured rise of sentiment analysis in journalism
Tools to derive opinions from social media postings are far from perfect, but they also offer hope for getting beyond pundits claiming to speak for others.
Joshua BentonJanuary 23, 2013
Not a good 24 hours for Facebook Comments
Press Publish 3: Jay Rosen on the public, how the press thinks, and the production of innocence
The NYU professor and scholar talks about his intellectual influences, how he thinks the press did in 2012, and how much of an audience there’ll be for civic-minded journalism. Joshua Benton
Joshua BentonJanuary 22, 2013
Google and Paris, on a tightrope
Joshua BentonJanuary 22, 2013
New survey on library usage: Internet access right behind books as an “important” service
Joshua BentonJanuary 22, 2013
Do media companies “own” the social media profiles of their talent?
Joshua BentonJanuary 22, 2013
Building news for the mobile context
For The New York Times, redesigns happen in print, too
A few hints of web-native storytelling are in the Times’ repackaged print sections. Adrienne LaFrance
Is it real? Witness builds an app to verify user-submitted content
The InformaCam app, which uses metadata to help authenticate videos and photos, is being developed with funding from the Knight News Challenge. Justin Ellis
Andrew DonohueJanuary 22, 2013
Andrew Donohue: How to redesign the beat for engagement, impact, and accountability
The former editor of Voice of San Diego, now a Knight Fellow at Stanford, wants to rethink how journalists think about and find stories in the community.
C.W. Anderson: The public is still a problem, and other lessons from “Rebuilding the News”
“Rather than the public being eclipsed or forgotten, there are instead too many publics.” C.W. Anderson
RootIO wants to take radio back to the local level in Uganda
The Knight News Challenge winner will experiment with using cheap tools and existing networks to produce radio programming through mobile devices. Justin Ellis
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