23 Dec, 2011
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[This review was originally posted on Sept. 30, 2011, at the Nieman Journalism Lab.]
A heavyweight enters the tablet ring: Amazon became the latest company to jump into the tablet market this week, unveiling the Kindle Fire, a $199 tablet that will run on Google’s Android system. It’s a 7″ touch-screen tablet that’s essentially a knockoff of the [...]
23 Dec, 2011
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[This review was originally posted on Sept. 23, 2011, at the Nieman Journalism Lab.]
Facebook ramps its sharing up even further: We had been hearing all week about a big announcement Facebook would be making this Thursday at its annual conference — about how it would mark the social network’s rebirth and leave the competition in the dust. [...]
16 Sep, 2011
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[This review was originally posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab on Sept. 16, 2011.]
Paid and free, side by side: The Boston Globe became the latest news organization to institute an online paywall this week, but it did so in an unprecedented way that should be interesting to watch: The newspaper created a separate paid site, BostonGlobe.com, [...]
16 Sep, 2011
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[This review was originally posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab on Sept. 9, 2011.]
TechCrunch, ethics, and new notions of journalism: The prominent tech news site TechCrunch tends to find itself in the middle of some controversy or another fairly regularly. Usually they’re relatively inconsequential inside baseball, but this week’s blowup is by far its biggest, [...]
16 Sep, 2011
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[This review was originally posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab on Sept. 2, 2011.]
Hurricane news’ innovation and hype: The big U.S. news story this week was Hurricane Irene, which hit the East Coast and New England last weekend. It was a story that hit particularly close to home for many of the U.S.’ leading news [...]
16 Sep, 2011
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[This review was originally posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab on Aug. 26, 2011.]
Apple begins life after Jobs: This week in the media and tech world was defined by three men’s departures, all announced on Wednesday. By far the biggest was Steve Jobs’ resignation as CEO of Apple, 35 years after he founded the company. The [...]
16 Sep, 2011
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[This review was originally posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab on Aug. 19, 2011.]
Is social media killing big ideas?: In the New York Times this week, USC fellow Neal Gabler put forward a different form of the familiar “information overload” complaint, this time tying the proliferation of social media to the paucity of big ideas. We [...]
13 Aug, 2011
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[This review was originally posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab on Aug. 12, 2011.]
Murdoch passes Wall Street’s test: The fallout from News Corp.’s phone hacking scandal continued to spread this week, with the reported arrest of another former News of the World editor and the report that the ostensibly fired News Corp. British chief, Rebekah Brooks, is [...]
13 Aug, 2011
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[This review was originally posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab on Aug. 5, 2011.]
How right do we need to be on Twitter?: It’s not particularly uncommon for false information to spread on Twitter under the guise of breaking news, and that’s what happened late last week, when several journalists spread the rumor that CNN’s Piers [...]
13 Aug, 2011
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[This review was originally posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab on July 29, 2011.]
Debating the Times’ paywall and design: In its quarterly earnings call late last week, the New York Times gave the clearest picture yet of how its new online pay plan is working. As usual, it turned out to be something of a [...]