Helen Havlak | Nieman Journalism Lab

Articles by Helen Havlak

Helen Havlak is engagement editor at The Verge.

Platforms shine a light on original reporting

“Google and Facebook are actually late to the party compared to some of their smaller competitors.”

Keywords, not publishers, power the world’s biggest feeds

“Between Google, YouTube, Instagram, and Spotify, many of the world’s most influential feeds are now betting that their algorithms can do a better job of guessing what we want to see than we do ourselves.”

Chasing mobile search results

“Some outlets will even choose what stories to cover based on anticipated search demand, walking the increasingly fine line between service journalism and content farming.”