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Laura Hazard OwenJanuary 20, 2017

Ezra Klein hopes Vox can change the fact that “people who are more into the news read the news more”

“The primary cleavage in news readership is not liberal vs. conservative. It’s news junkie vs. non-news junkie.”

Joseph LichtermanJanuary 20, 2017

How The Guardian will be experimenting with push notifications on Inauguration Day

Plus a look back at some Inauguration Day digital innovations of the recent past.

Obama: “My instinct is everybody hates media right now…that has to be an opportunity”

Laura Hazard OwenJanuary 19, 2017

Can Marketplace reach an audience beyond those who already care about explainer journalism?

The stated mission is big: raising the economic intelligence of the country. “It’s our job to do more of that storytelling, but also to think more about how we are telling the story outside the traditional audience of public radio.”

Joseph LichtermanJanuary 19, 2017

A new collaboration: NPR stations nationwide are working together to spot trends in state governments

“By inviting in anybody who covers these things and letting them be participants and part of the conversation, the bar gets raised for everybody.”

Television, not the web, was the main news source for both Trump and Clinton voters, says Pew

Laura Hazard OwenJanuary 18, 2017

The Christian Science Monitor is betting big on constructive, non-depressing (but paid-for) news

The 109-year-old publication’s digital future will be based around a voice that is “calm and fact-based and fundamentally constructive, and assumes that our readers are looking to have a fundamentally constructive approach to the news.”

Laura Hazard OwenJanuary 18, 2017

Axios goes live, with a Trump interview (in 19 bullet points and a bunch of little posts)

Who needs a ton of words?

Joshua BentonJanuary 17, 2017

This is The New York Times’ digital path forward

“For all the progress we have made, we still have not built a digital business large enough on its own to support a newsroom that can fulfill our ambitions.” This new internal report outlines how the Times aims to improve its journalism to help do just that.

Joseph LichtermanJanuary 17, 2017

Here’s how Twitter is reacting to The New York Times’ 2020 report

The Times released the report on Tuesday, and Media Twitter is already dissecting its every word.

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