[This review was originally posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab on Dec. 23, 2011.]
Rethinking political fact-checking: PolitiFact, the fact-checking organization launched in 2007 by the St. Petersburg Times,named its lie of the year this week, and the choice wasn’t a popular one: The Democratic claim that Republicans voted to end Medicare was widely denounced among liberal [...]
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reverse meter,
SOPA,
the new york times
[This review was originally posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab on Dec. 9, 2011.]
Do institutions have a place in news innovation?: About three weeks after Dean Starkman’s indictment of future-of-news thinkers was posted online by the Columbia Journalism Review, NYU professor Clay Shirky — one of the primary targets of the piece — delivered a response late last [...]
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[This review was originally posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab on Dec. 2, 2011.]
We’ve got two weeks to cover with this review, but since one of those weeks was dominated for many us by football, family and post-turkey stupor, it’s a relatively quiet period to catch up on. Here’s what you might have missed:
Citizen journalism [...]
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Omaha World-Herald,
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Warren Buffett,
weak ties,
WikiLeaks
[This review was originally posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab on Nov. 18, 2011.]
A fight for online freedom: A U.S. House committee hearing brought an important three-week old bill on Internet censorship to the spotlight this week. The Stop Online Piracy Act (a companion of the Senate’s Protect IP Act), would allow content creators to shut [...]
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Jim Romenesko,
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over-aggregation,
Poynter Institute,
Protect IP Act,
SOPA,
twitter
[This review was originally posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab on Nov. 11, 2011.]
Google+ courts businesses: After banning businesses for its first four months, Google+ finally let them in this week, launching Google+ Pages, which gives accounts to business and groups. (Danny Sullivan of Search Engine Land put together the best walkthrough of what Pages are and [...]
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Poynter Institute,
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RSS,
the new york times
[This review was originally posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab on Nov. 4, 2011.]
Should we rethink online paywalls?: It may not be grabbing as many headlines as it was a year ago, but the paid-content train keeps rollin’ along, with two more newspapers jumping on board this week: Britain’s The Independent is launching a metered paywall [...]
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SB Nation,
The Independent,
the new york times,
The Verge,
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Vox Media,
WikiLeaks,
Yahoo,
Yahoo Livestand
[This review was originally posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab on Oct. 28, 2011.]
News consumers and paid content on tablets: We’re now a year and a half into the tablet era, so we’ve started to get a more stable sense of exactly who’s using them and how. The Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in [...]
[This review was originally posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab on Oct. 21, 2011.]
Growing tension at News Corp.: We’ll be hearing the news from News Corp.’s annual shareholder meeting later today, and media observers are certainly watching the meeting closely, especially after reports late last week that numerous groups representing about a quarter of the company’s [...]
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rupert murdoch,
sustainability
[This review was originally posted on Oct. 14, 2011, at the Nieman Journalism Lab.]
The Guardian opens up its news agenda: The Guardian took a significant step in the evolution from a closed to open newsroom this week, allowing the public access to a live account of its internal list of planned news stories. In his announcement [...]
[This review was originally posted on Oct. 7, 2011, at the Nieman Journalism Lab.]
A man who thought different: The tech, media, and business worlds lost one of their brightest minds this week: Steve Jobs, the visionary who co-founded Apple and helped transform virtually every industry this site touches on, died Wednesday at age 56. Thousands [...]