Archives: 2016

Nicholas QuahMarch 22, 2016
Hot Pod: Is the NPR podcast promotion kerfuffle overblown or a sign of something real?
“The key to evaluate NPR’s fate, I believe, lies in the way the institution views radio and digital/podcast audiences as two separate categories with separate strategies for audience development.”
Laura Hazard OwenMarch 21, 2016
Medium spins off Matter as “sort of an incubator” for digital storytellers
Joseph LichtermanMarch 21, 2016
By crowdsourcing moderation duties, the startup Civil is working to improve comments for news orgs
“When you moderate out the hate speech and the personal attacks, you actually end up hearing from a wider group of people.”
Shan WangMarch 21, 2016
10 NICAR lightning talks to guide you through cats, statistical resampling, fear of math, and more
Have you always wanted to read a book a week for a year or make better, faster-loading maps? Look no further.
Joseph LichtermanMarch 18, 2016
A new data viz tool shows what stories are being undercovered in countries around the world
Ken DoctorMarch 18, 2016
Newsonomics: In Southern California’s newspaper chaos, is anyone really speaking for the readers?
Well-intentioned antitrust actions by the Department of Justice are likely to deliver two newspapers to a company with a record of milking papers for profit through deep cutbacks.
Joshua BentonMarch 17, 2016
NPR decides it won’t promote its podcasts or NPR One on air
The public radio giant is letting its present impose a strategy tax on its future.
Mike AnannyMarch 17, 2016
Mike Ananny: It’s time to reimagine the role of a public editor, starting at The New York Times
“To hold future journalism accountable (not simply to describe its dynamics to interested readers), public editors must speak a new language of platform ethics that is part professional journalism, part technology design, all public values.”
Shan WangMarch 17, 2016
A friendly new Slack bot from Digg lets you ask for articles around keywords, domain names, and more
Joseph LichtermanMarch 17, 2016
The FT is launching a new analytics tool to make metrics more understandable for its newsroom
“This tool and the functionalities we’ve structured into it are very much trying to…translate into journalese, into newsroom vernacular, all of the metrics of engagement.”
Laura Hazard OwenMarch 16, 2016
The publisher of The Toronto Star, which is betting big on an expensive tablet edition, is stepping down
The paper was targeting 180,000 daily app users by the end of 2016. Today, it has about 26,000.
Shan WangMarch 16, 2016
Have an interactive, data-driven story that doesn’t fit at your news outlet? The Thrust wants to know
“In a lot of ways this serves dual purposes: one of them being a publication platform for us to do fun, interesting, or experimental things. The other is to be that platform for other people.”
Laura Hazard OwenMarch 16, 2016
Apple News opens up to everyone
Shan WangMarch 15, 2016
The Atlantic is tackling big issues like climate change and gun violence by posing more questions
Flipping the Q&A into an A&Q: “Where are the interesting, unresolved, complex, nuanced questions?”
Joseph LichtermanMarch 15, 2016
The Coral Project unveils its first product to make comments better
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