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Articles tagged Amy O’Leary (9)

Upworthy is sorry for all the clickbait, but it’s not sorry for what it’s learned about how to get people to read, watch, and share its output.
After hiring Amy O’Leary from The New York Times, the site has started using user data to inform its original content production.
Rather than pointing out solely what’s wrong with the world — think political gridlock, war, terrorism, and catastrophic climate change — solutions journalism aims to show how people are making things better.
“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.”
The Times’ “quick links” allow writers to better illustrate parts of a story through pop-up multimedia within an article. Justin Ellis
Nicholas Roerich's "Rite of Spring"
The New York Times reporter anticipated people on Twitter missing the nuance of her ideas, so she came prepared. Andrew Phelps
March 30, 2009
March 26, 2009