Archives: 2016

Shan WangFebruary 5, 2016
The Conversation expands across the U.S., freshly funded by universities and foundations
The news site that uses academics as reporters and journalists as editors now boasts 19 paying member universities and is opening up posts in Atlanta (and maybe in the Bay Area).
Shan WangFebruary 4, 2016
A Boston public radio station is redesigning its site to make audio “a first-class citizen online”
But: “I’ve tried to be really disciplined about not calling this process just a redesign,” WBUR’s executive editor for digital Tiffany Campbell said. “We’ve built a brand new platform.”
Joseph LichtermanFebruary 4, 2016
Sports Illustrated’s new app has video “baked into every channel”
“Video is one of the highest priorities we have. We wanted to make it front and center.”
Joseph LichtermanFebruary 4, 2016
New Pew report: Cable news remains a popular way to follow the election, but social media reaches the young
Shan WangFebruary 3, 2016
Public radio staffers across the U.S. lay out new guidelines for podcast audience measurement
Photo by Sam Falk. Used with permission from The New York Times.
Shan WangFebruary 3, 2016
The New York Times is unearthing unpublished photos from its archives for Black History Month
The Times is grappling with the past, present, and future of its race coverage, encouraging readers to share their own materials and memories and along the way shedding a little light on the journalistic process.
Sydney FinkelsteinFebruary 3, 2016
Need to find, keep, and maximize talent today? Look to an old-school example, Gene Roberts
“Virtually every hire should be part of a long-range master plan of journalistic excellence.”
Laura Hazard OwenFebruary 2, 2016
The Boston Globe built an election app with one small twist to keep you glued to your phone
“We had a lot of people who enjoyed staring at it.”
Laura Hazard OwenFebruary 2, 2016
The Information is offering members a perk: an exclusive trip to “meet the right people” in China
The $399-a-year site covering the tech industry expects subscribers to pay their own way, but promises access to “people only the most well-known execs typically meet.”
Nicholas QuahFebruary 2, 2016
Hot Pod: Podcasts about podcasts, a new player in sports audio, and a crowded election-podcast space
“I worry about big money pouring into podcasting…I really, really hope that all the money pouring into podcasting won’t bury tiny, weird independent podcasts.”
Joseph LichtermanFebruary 1, 2016
News is a product: A new report outlines best practices for news product managers
Joseph LichtermanFebruary 1, 2016
The sun never sets on The Times: How and why the British paper built its new weekly international app
“We’re pursuing the idea of editions everywhere. An edition is something that can be finished. When you’ve read it, you feel up-to-date; you’ve been told what you need to know for the day or the week.”
Joseph LichtermanFebruary 1, 2016
Jeff Bezos on The Washington Post’s digital strategy, the future of print, and sending Trump to space
The Post and Amazon owner met with the paper’s staffers in a town hall meeting this morning.
Shan WangJanuary 29, 2016
Top departures at Politico come with hints of a new venture
Shan WangJanuary 29, 2016
A new storytelling platform hopes to move crisis reporting beyond isolated events in the news cycle
The idea of Coda Story “is to watch things unfurl at the pace of evolving trends rather than daily developments.”
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