Archives: 2016

Shan WangJanuary 29, 2016
The New York Times wants to tell you which TV shows are worth binging on with a new product
It sees service journalism as a way to build digital revenue and reach an audience interested in advice and recommendations as much as the Times’ criticism and culture coverage.
Laura Hazard OwenJanuary 28, 2016
The Economist starts publishing its charts on the messaging app Line
Why Line? The app “supports both bots and conversational interfaces,” says deputy editor Tom Standage.
Madeline WelshJanuary 28, 2016
The Programming Corporation of America has a plan to keep those digital political ad dollars local
By creating locally focused series of short online videos and partnering with local outlets in early primary and caucus states, the company aims to capture some of the digital political ad dollars that could otherwise go elsewhere.
Laura Hazard OwenJanuary 28, 2016
Amber, a plugin to prevent linkrot, is now available for download
Shan WangJanuary 27, 2016
All the news that’s fit to podcast: Newspapers try out audio
An unsolved murder, lives of the presidents, the Iowa Caucuses, and more — all delivered in podcast format by reporters who are learning for the first time how to write to be heard, not to be read.
John DyerJanuary 27, 2016
From Nieman Reports: Fifty years of the Freedom of Information Act
Data obtained through a FOIA request, for instance, gave a Colorado Springs Gazette reporter the “confidence to do something bigger.” The end result: a Pulitzer Prize-winning series.
Joseph LichtermanJanuary 27, 2016
Vice launches a paid summer fellowship for “underrepresented communities”
Joseph LichtermanJanuary 26, 2016
Knight News Challenge winners focus on data and transparency
17 projects will receive a total of $3.2 million to track police misconduct, improve the FOIA process, and more.
Shan WangJanuary 26, 2016
A survey claims 37% of global mobile users have blocked ads, despite low numbers from U.S. publishers
Nicholas QuahJanuary 26, 2016
Hot Pod: Spotify is finally ready to bring podcasting to a new audience
Plus: How Recode thinks about podcasting, a new podcast CMS, the “public radio brain drain,” and more. (Also, your faithful Hot Podder begins to fly solo.)
Laura Hazard OwenJanuary 25, 2016
As The Guardian cuts £50M, it plans to build on its membership program
Joshua BentonJanuary 25, 2016
Facebook and adblockers, podcasts and Trump: What the big media trends of 2015 will bring for 2016
The news was mostly bad for publishers and news organizations last year.
Laura Hazard OwenJanuary 25, 2016
This is what it’s like to launch a journalism school from scratch
At Morgan State, one of the few historically black colleges and universities with a journalism school, “we not only have to provide our students the knowledge in the classroom that they need to compete, but we also have to be a provider of the practical experiences that they need.”
Joseph LichtermanJanuary 22, 2016
20 years ago today, NYTimes.com debuted “on-line” on the web
“We all had a sense that something important was happening, but at the time there were actually very few users. So it was a bet on people getting online and buying more PCs.”
Laura Hazard OwenJanuary 22, 2016
A Howard project is debunking myths about African-Americans and teaching students fact-checking
“There are more black men in prison than college.” “A dollar spent in the black community stays there for only six hours.” A project at Howard University aims to dispel oft-repeated myths.
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