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Joshua BentonMay 28, 2015

The Apple Watch will expose how little publishers know about their readers

Apple’s new wearable may or may not be a big hit. But either way, it’s a harbinger of a new class of truly personal devices whose users will demand customized experiences. News companies aren’t ready to provide them.

Caroline O'DonovanJanuary 27, 2015

At Datalore, data plus storytelling means empathy, humor, and games

At the MIT Media Lab, teams of designers, developers and storytellers pulled stories from eight different data sets.

Joseph LichtermanOctober 20, 2014

Light everywhere: The California Civic Data Coalition wants to make public datasets easier to crunch

Journalists from rival outlets are pursuing the dream of “pluggable data,” partnering to build open-source tools to analyze California campaign finance and lobbying data.

Is the river behind your house rising? A British Twitter bot will tell you

Caroline O'DonovanFebruary 19, 2014

Are quizzes the new lists? What BuzzFeed’s latest viral success means for publishing

They drive huge engagement and otherworldly pageviews. From internal analytics to a flexible CMS, the recent quiz boom provide a useful peek into how BuzzFeed sees itself as a platform.

How a crime becomes political: Trayvon Martin and the way different media co-create the news

A new paper out of MIT’s Center for Civic Media uses Media Cloud and other tools to map how the story of Trayvon Martin’s death was told — and evolved. Caroline O'Donovan

Yes, the Vikings should have gone for it on 4th down, and a New York Times robot knows why

The Times’ 4th Down Bot, a collaboration with Advanced NFL Stats, analyzes whether your team should punt, kick a field goal, or go for it on fourth down. Justin Ellis

This new blended reality: Rafat Ali says companies that see data as content are the future of media

Ken DoctorOctober 17, 2013

The newsonomics of “Little Data,” data scientists, and conversion specialists

The world’s top newspaper companies are realizing they need to invest heavily in data analysis to maximize their business opportunities.

Mark CoddingtonOctober 11, 2013

This Week in Review: Twitter’s TV ramp-up, and a clash over press regulation in the UK

Plus: The fallout of government surveillance, mugshot extortion, a Philly newspaper flap, and the rest of the week’s media and tech news.

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