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With two major partnership moves, The Guardian’s Andrew Miller is trying to find a stronger position for premium publishers in a Google/Facebook-dominated world.
The broadcaster is following up on an experiment using WhatsApp to provide updates on the fight against Ebola in West Africa.
The annual omnibus report from Pew outlines a story of continued trends more than radical change.
Mexico is the viral giant’s latest target for expansion. Will it continue leading with listicles and nostalgia, or is there more room for news in how it introduces BuzzFeed to new territories?
Language barriers make cross-border work tricky, but for complex multinational topics, it can one of the only ways to get the true measure of a story.
In a new book, a group of academics look at how the big defining questions of the field — what is journalism? who is a journalist? who decides? — are changing.
“We’re continuing our experiments with seeing what kinds of great archival stories people want to read and what formats seem to be most popular.”
It wants to be a “real-time magazine” on the web, connected to its print heritage. But stripping out the visual noise won’t please everyone.