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, [...]
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 [...]
09 Jul, 2011
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[This review was originally posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab on June 24, 2011.]
The New York Post’s iPad block: News Corp. head Rupert Murdoch has developed a reputation for draconian policies toward paid content and the web, and he furthered that pattern this week when News Corp.’s New York Post blocked access to its website from [...]
09 Jul, 2011
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[This review was originally posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab on June 10, 2011.]
Apple’s mobile Newsstand is a reality: When Steve Jobs makes an announcement, it’s a pretty good bet that whatever he introduces will be what the media-tech world is talking about for the next week (or month, or year). On Monday, Jobs had plenty [...]
01 Jun, 2011
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[This week's review was originally posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab on May 20, 2011.]
Twitter on the brain: Last week, New York Times executive editor Bill Keller got a rise out of a lot of folks online with one of the shortest of his 21 career tweets: “#TwitterMakesYouStupid. Discuss.” Keller revealed the purpose of his social experiment [...]
01 Jun, 2011
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[This review was originally posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab on May 6, 2011.]
Twitter as breaking-news system: This week’s big news is obvious: American forces killed Osama bin Laden on Monday (Sunday for most Westerners) in a raid of his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. But you already knew that, and how exactly you found out [...]
05 May, 2011
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[This review was originally posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab on April 29, 2011.]
Leaking gets competitive: WikiLeaks made its first major document release in five months — during which time its founder, Julian Assange, was arrested, released on bail, and put under house arrest — this week, publishing 764 files regarding the Guantánamo Bay prison along with 10 [...]