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Archives: May 2014

Crowdsourcing tiny snippets of time, building the news around analytics, and how Twitter is weird during big news events: all that and more in this month’s roundup of the academic literature.
Plus: Conversation continues on changes at The New York Times, and the rest of the week’s journalism and tech news and commentary.
Human, bot, or something in between? We asked ABC News, the AP, CNN, NBC News, The New York Times, USA Today, and The Wall Street Journal how they power their Twitter and Facebook accounts.
Putting a person at the controls increased traffic and engagement by just about every measure. Now the question becomes: Is that boost worth the extra human effort?
A survey of business executives from Quartz finds that one of the oldest digital formats — the email newsletter — is one of the biggest ways they get news.
The Times’ director of news analytics explains its new Package Mapper tool: “Every URL is a potential starting point for readers.”