Archives: 2018

Christine SchmidtJanuary 24, 2018
Here’s how to build a better newsletter, according to a bunch of self-professed newsletter nerds
Laura Hazard OwenJanuary 24, 2018
“Punchier and stronger” and with way more women: How Outside Magazine got to be badass online
A lot of publications are paying lip service to inclusiveness and diversity. Outside is actually doing it.
Christine SchmidtJanuary 24, 2018
🤔: As emojis become further embedded in our lives, how can journalists find the stories inside?
“The hard part is not the technical stuff. The hard part is how to tell a story about this or ask the right questions. This is the most personal form of data science.”
Ricardo BiltonJanuary 23, 2018
A new $650K grant will help pay for newsrooms to adopt tools like Hearken and GroundSource
Nicholas QuahJanuary 23, 2018
Subcast wants to bring podcast publishers and smart-speaker users together
Plus: A new media format from Spotify, Vox partners on the official NBC Olympics Podcast, and where Relay FM is at.
Shan WangJanuary 23, 2018
Ich bin ein Berliner: How a California NPR affiliate ended up running an English-language station in Germany
Now KCRW wants to make the station more local to Berlin and less about American programming. FYI, “totebag” in German is Tragetasche.
Laura Hazard OwenJanuary 22, 2018
The Financial Times is giving high-schoolers around the world free access to FT.com
Shan WangJanuary 22, 2018
A network of news outlets and data agencies wants to unlock untold data stories across Europe
Data-driven news stories produced by members of the European Data Journalism Network are translated into English, French, German, Italian, Polish, and Spanish and then made available for free to all partner and non-partner news organizations.
Natasha MadovJanuary 22, 2018
Volt Data Lab grew from a personal blog for coding experiments to a full-fledged data storytelling agency
Volt started as a passion project, rode a wave of interest in Brazil for better online data stories, and today builds data-based stories and reports for a wide array of Brazilian organizations from legacy newsrooms to ad agencies.
Shan Wang, Christine Schmidt, and Laura Hazard OwenJanuary 19, 2018
Publishers claim they’re taking Facebook’s News Feed changes in stride. Is the “bloodletting” still to come?
“Let’s put the nail in the coffin of chasing clicks and likes.”
Laura Hazard OwenJanuary 19, 2018
What (if anything) do Facebook’s News Feed changes mean for fake news?
Plus: Lessons from Bolivia and Slovakia, and what’s the reach of fake news in the EU?
Ken DoctorJanuary 19, 2018
Newsonomics: NPR’s Ross Levinsohn scoop delivers a double blow to Tronc
The Tronc rollercoaster continues: Just as it tries to unveil a familiar strategy (“gravitas with scale”!), its top digital leader’s past catches up with him.
Joshua BentonJanuary 18, 2018
Media companies should open up an HQ2
If it’s good enough for Amazon, why not for news publishers? Trade in your New York rent for a wider, subway-phobic pool of talent.
Christine SchmidtJanuary 18, 2018
One year in, is Axios “worthy”?
Christine SchmidtJanuary 18, 2018
This California journalism nonprofit is finding hope for the news industry in voices behind bars
Voices of Monterey Bay is amplifying less-heard voices (prisoners, the children of farm workers), building a community base of support, and publishing in both English and Spanish.
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