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Articles tagged Upworthy (24)

“Is this post worth your time?” (Or is it at least a picture of people hugging?)
“An incredible team remains, and our mission is as relevant now as ever.”
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.”
It’s one of a number of new news apps trying to reinvent mobile news around a card metaphor. Simon Owens
Stockholm’s two major evening tabloids have started competing BuzzFeed imitators this year, and the same aggregator moves we’ve seen in the U.S. are playing out abroad.
Plus: Debating SI’s LeBron James scoop, a warning for the newspaper industry, and the rest of the week’s media and journalism must-reads.
Plus: Verdicts in the News Corp. phone hacking scandal, jailed journalists in Egypt, and the rest of the news about the news from the past fortnight.