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How Flipboard just created 50 million magazine editors

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 18:10:28 +0000

Inside Flipboard | All Things D | Giga Om

Andrew Sullivan tweaks paywall model after initial subscriber surge slows

Mon, 25 Mar 2013 20:43:03 +0000

After raising a few hundred thousand dollars immediately and about $611,000 after a few weeks, subscriber growth is slowing for Andrew Sullivan’s Daily Dish blog.

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The latest on new HQs for NPR, Miami Herald and Washington Post

Mon, 25 Mar 2013 18:41:36 +0000

NPR officially moves into a new headquarters in Washington, D.C. today, five years after it bought the property and began planning for the move.

NPR had been based in a narrow triangular building in the Mt. Vernon Square neighborhood since 1994. The new headquarters is a historically preserved, four-story warehous

‘Let Me Tweet That For You’ site raises concerns for journalists

Fri, 22 Mar 2013 17:30:28 +0000

This tweet looks pretty real, doesn’t it?

Google prepares a mobile marketplace for news content

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 18:53:33 +0000

Android Police | The Next Web |

News organizations can now see how their content performs on Pinterest

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 19:49:45 +0000

The image-sharing network Pinterest released a new analytics tool this week that serves up lots of data about how its users engage with your website’s content.

Google Glass is here: How to build news apps that get in users’ faces

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 17:37:48 +0000

Google Glass, a pair of wearable computer-enhanced eyeglasses, is possibly the next-big-thing in mobile computing.

Thayer accused of plagiarizing parts of article The Atlantic wanted to publish for free

Fri, 08 Mar 2013 19:28:17 +0000

Jeremy Duns | New York | CJR
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Facebook (still) wants to be your ‘personalized newspaper’

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 19:50:14 +0000

Mark Zuckerberg is getting a lot of attention for talking about today’s News Feed redesign as making Facebook a “personalized newspaper.” Which sounds OK, I guess, but that vague notion is also exactly

Richard Engel describes being kidnapped in Syria

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 19:03:47 +0000

NBC’s Richard Engel describes being kidnapped in Syria:

A group of about 15 armed men were fanning out around us. Three or four of them stood

"Nobody ‘goes online’ any more: the internet is becoming an ambient background..."

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 15:00:34 +0000

“Nobody ‘goes online’ any more: the internet is becoming an ambient background thing-that’s-always-there, rather than a mass communications medium that people consciously think of themselves as paying attention to.”

- Felix Salmon, Content economics, part 1: advertising

"If you are not asking yourself every couple of years how to once more scare yourself to death, then..."

Sun, 03 Feb 2013 19:16:21 +0000

“If you are not asking yourself every couple of years how to once more scare yourself to death, then you are living something of the coward’s life. Ain’t no room for cowards in journalism at this moment in time.”

- Joe Sexton

"I think people become more informed citizens when they understand the processes of journalism, not..."

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 17:07:40 +0000

“I think people become more informed citizens when they understand the processes of journalism, not just the products of journalism. By following me, they get to see the processes in action – and hopefully they get something from the experience.”

- Andy Carvin, in Tweeting

"A publication’s app should be designed and built with purpose and consideration. The Magazine works..."

Thu, 13 Dec 2012 14:23:29 +0000

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A publication’s app should be designed and built with purpose and consideration. The Magazine works because I based decisions not on what everyone else was doing, but on what would be best for this magazine. Every publication has its own unique needs, audience, economics, and style, so their apps should reflect that.

In the past, publications had a harder time differentiating themselve

"On October 3, CNN.com will also debut new clip-and-share video editing features. With DVR-like..."

Fri, 28 Sep 2012 15:25:29 +0000

“On October 3, CNN.com will also debut new clip-and-share video editing features. With DVR-like controls, clip-and-share makes everyone a CNN editor. Users can quickly fast-forward and rewind to the perfect start and end points to create powerful video clips, straight from the live feed.”

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"News startups large and small—MAPLight, Smoking Gun, Homicide Watch, ProPublica—are all..."

Thu, 06 Sep 2012 13:18:20 +0000

“News startups large and small—MAPLight, Smoking Gun, Homicide Watch, ProPublica—are all experimenting with new sources of informational value—amateurs, crowds, databases—and with new possibilities for producing news in partnerships and consortia. These organizations all punch above their weight, given their staff costs. In the same way the Industrial Revolution made an hour of a weaver’s time far

"In 2012, the definition of journalist must include bringing more people to my journalism. It’s not..."

Thu, 02 Aug 2012 13:24:03 +0000

“In 2012, the definition of journalist must include bringing more people to my journalism. It’s not enough to say ‘I report well, I write well’ … bringing more people to your journalism is part of who you are.”

- Raju Narisetti, WSJ digital chief,

"Media is the way to build the brand; data is the way to build the revenue."

Mon, 30 Jul 2012 21:12:47 +0000

“Media is the way to build the brand; data is the way to build the revenue.”

- Rafat Ali, explaining the approach to building his new startup

"The future for developers? It looks like, ultimately, it’s not building apps to read Twitter,..."

Tue, 03 Jul 2012 20:26:16 +0000

“The future for developers? It looks like, ultimately, it’s not building apps to read Twitter, it’s building apps into Twitter.”

- Matt Buchanan, The Future Of Twitter Is Nothing You’ve Seen Before

"In the digital era, one of the greatest challenges is that AP is fundamentally a..."

Tue, 03 Jul 2012 11:48:57 +0000

“In the digital era, one of the greatest challenges is that AP is fundamentally a business-to-business operation, yet we need to find ways to connect to individual readers, viewers and listeners of our content to remain relevant and competitive. We’ve made some great strides, including the newly reimagined AP Mobile app and our considerable social media presence — we recently crossed a million fol

"Print is becoming a specialty. A novelty. A vanity. It’s things that end in -ty mostly. [laughs]..."

Wed, 27 Jun 2012 16:34:30 +0000

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Print is becoming a specialty. A novelty. A vanity. It’s things that end in -ty mostly. [laughs] It doesn’t make a lot of sense, given planetary resources, given inefficiencies, to force the maintenance of a physical distribution model for most book reading. As an author who has gone through the process…it is painfully delayed in so many ways. I was in London just yesterday and stopped

The most-visited news websites among Americans in May, according...

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 12:33:09 +0000

The most-visited news websites among Americans in May, according to Nielsen

Come to my seminar: Building a Successful Social Media Strategy

Wed, 20 Jun 2012 15:40:45 +0000

Come to my seminar: Building a Successful Social Media Strategy:

I’m helping teach this along with some fantastic Poynter faculty next month. Today is the last day for early-bird pricing.

The Twitter bird (did you know his name is Larry?) is getting a...

Thu, 07 Jun 2012 14:21:39 +0000

The Twitter bird (did you know his name is Larry?) is getting a makeover and a haircut. (via WSJ)

"Lost revenue isn’t the only change befalling what we used to call the news industry. It’s not even..."

Thu, 31 May 2012 20:27:06 +0000

“Lost revenue isn’t the only change befalling what we used to call the news industry. It’s not even the most significant change. To adapt to the current ecosystem, the Post (like all papers) will have to alter the way it works, not just the way it makes money.”

- Clay Shirky, in WaPo must transform to

"I’ve come to realize that journalists don’t like change. It’s threatening to them. Their first..."

Tue, 29 May 2012 13:40:12 +0000

“I’ve come to realize that journalists don’t like change. It’s threatening to them. Their first instinct is to scoff at new ways, then find fault if the ideas begin to take hold in the marketplace. Eventually, they come around.The angst begins again with the next new thing, never mind that the previous new thing is what saved their profession.”

- Lewis DVorkin,

How a newspaper announces (in print) that it is cutting print...

Fri, 25 May 2012 13:15:29 +0000

How a newspaper announces (in print) that it is cutting print editions. Via How Times-Picayune, Alabama newspaper changes played on their front pages)

"Denton’s vision for Gawker Media’s editorial product is very much moving towards comments and away..."

Wed, 23 May 2012 14:37:01 +0000

“Denton’s vision for Gawker Media’s editorial product is very much moving towards comments and away from posts… If Denton’s scheme goes according to plan, when you follow a link to a Gawker website, it will often — or maybe even usually — be a link to a comment, rather than to an original post. Eventually, it’s possible to envisage a world where the distinction between the two is erased completely

"Journalism schools are known for producing writers. They’re known for different types of narratives...."

Tue, 22 May 2012 20:01:35 +0000

“Journalism schools are known for producing writers. They’re known for different types of narratives. They are not necessarily lauded for producing math or computer science majors. That has to change.”

- Emily Bell, director of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism, in an interview with Alex Howard about

"There is no way to create a universally respected system that also tells people what to think. I..."

Tue, 22 May 2012 17:00:46 +0000

“There is no way to create a universally respected system that also tells people what to think. I changed course and settled for a system that would remind people when to think instead. I think that is a better mission anyway.”

- Dan Sinker, on lessons from his effort to invent “truth goggles,"