Archives: 2017

Nicholas QuahMarch 7, 2017
“The radical act of women making media and owning it, too”: The (podcasting) future is female
Plus: Anchor takes another crack at social audio, a Midroll producer starts her own shop, and Uber wants to create a “content marketplace” for riders.
Joseph LichtermanMarch 7, 2017
Forbes rebuilt its new mobile website as a Progressive Web App
PWAs are backed by Google and promise one thing above all else: speed.
Shan WangMarch 6, 2017
Here are roundups, links, and other resources for those who didn’t make it to this year’s NICAR conference
Shan WangMarch 6, 2017
Sidewire is civil, thoughtful, and either exactly right or exactly wrong for this political moment
The closed discussion platform shuts out the noise of Twitter’s eggs and trolls and is betting on — gasp! — the value of government and media elites talking to one another.
Kevin AndersonMarch 6, 2017
How four international news outlets are creating truly digitally native content (and making money off it)
News outlets are adjusting their strategies as users migrate to more closed messaging platforms.
Ricardo BiltonMarch 3, 2017
With its new book, OpenNews wants to help more newsrooms adopt open source projects
Laura Hazard OwenMarch 3, 2017
The New York Times has found a home — in print! — for its journalists’ tweetstorms
“One thing that’s cool on this project is seeing how print and digital can be friends.”
Laura Hazard OwenMarch 3, 2017
People just don’t launch non-partisan news sites anymore: Updates from the fake-news world
“Trump really does polarize people’s views of reality.”
Laura Hazard OwenMarch 3, 2017
Já ninguém lança sites de notícias apartidários nos EUA: o mundo das notícias falsas
O lucro proporcionado pelo Facebook e pelo Google ajudou a sustentar os sites de notícias de pendor ideológico e levou à criação de sites de notícias falsas.
Joseph LichtermanMarch 2, 2017
A new OpenNews survey creates a “baseline for what we can do to broaden” the news nerd community
Joseph LichtermanMarch 2, 2017
For Quartz, bots are a chance to build a new path for interacting with news (and news outlets)
“It’s basically like with anything that you do in media: Is it interesting? Is it easily accessible? Is it compelling? Are there reasons for me to come back?”
Laura Hazard OwenMarch 2, 2017
The New York Times redesigns pages A2 and A3 as “a quick and engaging roundup”
It borrows from the design language of magazines — but also of the web.
Ricardo BiltonMarch 1, 2017
With its new editor on board, ProPublica Illinois’ ambitions are starting to take shape
“I think the keys to making this kind of small operation work are collegiality, responsiveness, and flexibility.”
Joseph LichtermanMarch 1, 2017
Novo relatório: Jovens americanos têm uma definição abrangente daquilo que é notícia
“Se não o vir nas redes sociais, não vou ouvir falar disso.”
Joseph LichtermanMarch 1, 2017
A new study says young Americans have a broad definition of news
“If I don’t see it on social media, I’m not going to hear it.”
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