[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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[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 [...]
[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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
[This review was originally posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab on May 13, 2011.]
Leaving the old ad model behind: Much of the commentary about digital news this week was generated by two big reports, one on the business of digital journalism and the other on its consumption. We’ll start on the business side, with the [...]
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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 [...]
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[This review was originally posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab on March 4, 2011.]
Google’s surgical strike against content farms: Two weeks after launching its site-blocking Chrome extension, Google made the central move in its fight against content farms by changing its algorithm to de-emphasize them in search results. The New York Times put the change in context, explaining the [...]
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TBD
[This review was originally posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab on Feb. 25, 2011.]
The short, happy-ish life of TBD: Just six months after it launched and two weeks after a reorganization was announced, the Washington, D.C., local news site was effectively shuttered this week, when its corporate parent, Allbritton Communications (it’s owned by Robert Allbritton and includes [...]