Archives: 2017

Laura Hazard OwenJanuary 24, 2017
True 💗: The New York Times launches an interactive look at 165 years of wedding announcements
Laura Hazard OwenJanuary 24, 2017
The Internet sets writers free…to get new audiences, and also to “dive into a giant flaming garbage pile”
An extended conversation on the economics of building a career writing on the web today: “Unfortunately, it looks a little grim.”
Nicholas QuahJanuary 24, 2017
Hot Pod: What does an audio producer actually do, anyway?
Plus: Panoply grabs some big partners, question marks at Acast, and success in local podcasting through Hearken.
Ricardo BiltonJanuary 23, 2017
With Indivisible, public radio stations hope the call-in format will help Americans find common ground
The show is “about understanding the values that we hold and how we want to be — what are our shared hopes and dreams for who we want to be in the world and how are we seen,” says WNYC CEO Laura Walker.
Ricardo BiltonJanuary 23, 2017
Patreon is helping The Asheville Blade connect directly with readers — and skip over advertisers entirely
“I never have to consider if a story I run is going to make me take a financial hit. That lack of pressure gives us a huge amount of independence.”
Shan WangJanuary 23, 2017
ProPublica is leading a nationwide effort to document hate crimes, with local and national partners
“We’re not alone in trying to compile the numbers, and we’re not alone in trying to track all reports.”
Ken DoctorJanuary 20, 2017
Newsonomics: Trump may be the news industry’s greatest opportunity to build a sustainable model
Readers have finally understood that their payments for the news will actually make a difference in what they and their community know. That model needs to be extended down to states and cities.
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.
Shan WangJanuary 19, 2017
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.”
Ricardo BiltonJanuary 18, 2017
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?
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