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Articles tagged linking (52)

Joshua BentonJuly 14, 2021

I have come to bury Knewz, not to praise it

News Corp’s painfully named news aggregator promised to somehow battle “crass clickbait,” filter bubbles, media bias, and two trillion-dollar companies, all at once. It ended up being a D-minus Drudge clone and OnlyFans blog.

Dan Gillmor and Kristy RoschkeApril 13, 2020

Linking to older stories is usually noble, but for coronavirus, it can be a recipe for a misinformed audience

“Through today’s lens, many U.S. coronavirus news stories from January and February seem breezy and untroubled…Many of these stories continue to circulate on social media.”

Why don’t The New York Times (and other news organizations) link out to sources more often?

Amber, a new tool to prevent linkrot on websites, is out in beta

Joshua BentonMay 19, 2014

Building permission structures for short content (Vox edition)

It’s a little thing (literally!), but if news organizations want to capture the full value of their journalists’ minds, they should give them an outlet for things other than traditional articles.

John WihbeyJanuary 31, 2014

What’s New in Digital and Social Media Research: Linking helps save newspapers and how multitasking spikes arousal

Vigorous linking as an antidote to newspaper failure, who gets crowdfunded, and skepticism around the standard narrative of the Arab Spring: all that and more in this month’s roundup of the academic literature.

John WihbeyAugust 30, 2013

What’s New in Digital Scholarship: Reporters ignoring technology, the continuing power of print, and booze on Facebook

Missed mobile opportunities, measuring Craigslist’s impact, and bringing an open source philosophy to journalism : all that and more in this month’s roundup of the academic literature.

John WihbeyApril 25, 2013

What’s New in Digital Scholarship: Why journalists link (or why they don’t) and the libel potential of a retweet

The arguments for smarter public support of journalism, the rise of civic engagement in social media, and the changing practices of foreign correspondents: all that and more in this month’s roundup of the academic literature.

Mark CoddingtonSeptember 28, 2012

This Week in Review: A limp response to plagiarism, and a proposed tax to save newspapers

Plus: Praise and scrutiny at Quartz’s launch, a Pew study on the geography of news consumption, and the rest of the week’s media and tech news.

Watch a creepy guy smell someone: The New York Times builds contextual multimedia into the flow of a story

The Times’ “quick links” allow writers to better illustrate parts of a story through pop-up multimedia within an article. Justin Ellis

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