Caroline O’Donovan | Nieman Journalism Lab

Articles by Caroline O'Donovan

Caroline O’Donovan is a staff writer at the Nieman Journalism Lab, where she covers media, technology and the future of the news business. As a Lab staffer, she’s been heard on NPR’s All Things Considered and CBS Radio. Previously, she was a fellow at Chicago Public Media, where she reported and produced stories in the Chicago area, as well as for American Public Media’s Marketplace.

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January 16, 2015

What Knight-Mozilla OpenNews has learned about preparing non-journalists for the newsroom

What would you tell someone who’s never worked in a newsroom what it’s like to work in journalism?

January 14, 2015

Q&A: Amy O’Leary on eight years of navigating digital culture change at The New York Times

“In 2007, as digital people, we were expected to be 100 percent deferent to all traditional processes. We weren’t to bother reporters or encourage them to operate differently at all, because what they were doing was the very core of our journalism.”

December 19, 2014

What does it mean to run “product” in a news organization? Hayley Nelson’s big challenge at Wired

Wired hired Nelson as director of product management almost two years ago; soon, she’ll launch a major redesign for the magazine.

Shifting gears: An interview with BuzzFeed’s Shani O. Hilton

December 15, 2014

Can wine tastings and movie tickets really help newspapers keep subscribers?

The San Francisco Chronicle has embarked on a new membership program aimed at increasing reader loyalty, and the renewal rate.

Study: Americans don’t worry about information overload and think the Internet has made them smarter

December 5, 2014

Algorithm fatigue: What Evernote’s news-recommending product can tell us about privacy

Evernote Context integrates the research process seamlessly into the user’s workflow — why don’t (some) users like it?

New Pew Journalism report examines newsroom partnerships

December 1, 2014

Finance media’s hottest club is Ello

Business reporters flocking to the platform won’t radically change journalism, but it’s worth asking why users gather where they do.

First Look Media is shutting down Racket and letting its staff go

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