Archives: 2016

Ricardo BiltonMarch 28, 2016
Bloomberg’s Hello World tech-and-travel show trades talking heads for Vice-like filmmaking
“With video on the web, the most important thing is that you meet the audience eye to eye.”
Joseph LichtermanMarch 28, 2016
Oculus Rift for news? Not quite yet
Joshua BentonMarch 28, 2016
Is there a way to save the best of the decentralized early Internet in an age of Facebook and Google?
Gabriel DanceMarch 28, 2016
From Nieman Reports: The four kinds of people you meet in newsrooms going digital
The Natives, the Naturals, the Collaborators, and the Fearful: You can guess which one The Marshall Project’s Gabriel Dance says is “a dangerous group to be in.”
Joshua BentonMarch 25, 2016
The game of concentration: The Internet is pushing the American news business to New York and the coasts
Rather than create geographic diversity, digital news has pushed the industry into a few tight clusters. That has real impacts on the journalism we get.
Shan WangMarch 25, 2016
Think you’re bad at math? A new Tow Center report explores the principles behind data journalism
“The future is very hard to know, but standards of journalistic accuracy apply to descriptions of the future at least as much as they apply to descriptions of the present, if not more so.”
Laura Hazard OwenMarch 24, 2016
Crux’s “corporate resurrection”: How the Catholic news site will live on beyond The Boston Globe
“We died and rose again on the third business day.”
Shan WangMarch 24, 2016
Cincinnati TV station WCPO decides to declare (newspaper-style) war on the local daily
The Scripps–owned local ABC affiliate wants Cincinnatians to think of their city as a two-newspaper town — even if that means ruffling feathers along the way.
Joshua BentonMarch 24, 2016
Expanding Apple Pay to websites could help solve a problem for news orgs seeking subscribers on mobile
Joseph LichtermanMarch 23, 2016
GroundSource is trying to help news sites build community through text-message conversations
“I can’t imagine many stronger indications of one’s desire to engage with a news organization than adding it as a contact in their address book.”
Jeff IsraelyMarch 23, 2016
Jeff Israely: What are the news products today’s young adults will want to consume in 10 or 20 years?
“One thing we tend to forget in this pile-on pursuit of eternal youth is that our target demographic of the moment is bound to grow older.”
Joseph LichtermanMarch 23, 2016
The Washington Post built a tool to measure the speed of its breaking news email alerts
Joseph LichtermanMarch 23, 2016
Testing its pay-per-article model in English, Blendle launches in the United States with 20 publishers
The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Time, and more are now publishing on the Netherlands-based micropayment platform. Will a market awash in free content be interested?
Shan WangMarch 22, 2016
The New York Times is still searching for the best mix of stories to curate on its homepage
The module formerly known as Watching is linking out less than it used to, but the Times says it still believes in curating the work of other news organizations.
Shan WangMarch 22, 2016
Philadelphia’s Billy Penn — live events and all — may soon be coming to a city near you
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