Archives: 2018

Ricardo BiltonMarch 8, 2018
With Lab 351, The Globe and Mail is creating both new products and a culture of “bottom-up” innovation
A driving principle for the incubator is to make it so “ideas can bubble up from the bottom, or the middle, or the top” of the organization.
Shan WangMarch 8, 2018
Quartz launches a Facebook Messenger bot (because why not, because experimentation, because people like messaging)
Craig SilvermanMarch 8, 2018
Living in a sea of false signals: Are we being pushed from “trust, but verify” to “verify, then trust”?
BuzzFeed’s fake-news reporter outlines some of the dangers ahead: “We have a human problem on our hands. Our cognitive abilities are in some ways overmatched by what we have created.”
Ricardo BiltonMarch 7, 2018
Women of color are still underrepresented in media. A new report explains why (and how news orgs can turn it around)
Joshua BentonMarch 7, 2018
Getting The Boston Globe delivered will soon cost almost $1,350 a year
Shan WangMarch 7, 2018
The Better India will show you all the positive news, on all the channels you might want it
“It was a huge revelation: If these kinds of stories, read by just a few thousand back then, could drive this kind of response, then imagine what we could achieve if we got to hundreds of thousands, then millions, of readers.”
Ken DoctorMarch 6, 2018
Newsonomics: GateHouse goes bigger, buying Austin’s daily and eyeing the Palm Beach Post
The company — a giant bet on acquisition, consolidation, and cost-cutting — now owns more than 1 out of 10 American daily newspapers. What it plans to do with them remains unclear.
Laura Hazard OwenMarch 6, 2018
The New York Times put ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ in a headline
Laura Hazard OwenMarch 6, 2018
Advertisers no longer need publishers. Should publishers give up on them?
Nicholas QuahMarch 6, 2018
Alexa, can you get my kid to brush his teeth? (Oh, and Alexa? How exactly can I make money with you?)
Plus: Spotify sees growth in spoken audio, one network goes cult-happy, and Marc Maron upgrades his garage.
Shan WangMarch 5, 2018
This new initiative deploys humans to review, research, and rate U.S. news sites
“We’re making the kinds of judgments that we think will be noncontroversial, but still are the kind of judgments that platforms, rightly, don’t want to be making themselves.”
Christine SchmidtMarch 5, 2018
Could local news driven by residents who pay fees in a special service district…work?
It’s how many communities fund libraries, build airports, or pay for hospitals. Could it also pay for local news?
Christine SchmidtMarch 5, 2018
Apologies for the clickbait, but: Public media archives. Gamified transcription. Go ahead and click
It might not be the sexiest journalism innovation, but WGBH is hoping to keep public radio and public television’s massive archives alive and useful by harnessing the power of dopamine.
Ricardo BiltonMarch 2, 2018
New data shows just how much social sharing has decreased since 2015 (and News Feed tweaks are just one factor)
Shan WangMarch 2, 2018
If your job requires you stay informed about Russia, Meduza wants to get you the right stories in English
The English edition of the three-year-old Russian news site now gets an average of 100,000 monthly unique visitors and can count among its readers everyone from European policymakers to members of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
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