[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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Minneapolis Star-Tribune,
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shield laws,
Subscribe,
Timeline
[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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innovation,
Internet censorship,
Occupy movement,
Occupy Wall Street,
Omaha World-Herald,
SOPA,
Warren Buffett,
weak ties,
WikiLeaks
[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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Apple,
Apple Newsstand,
Christopher Poole,
facebook,
google,
identity,
news corp,
newsstand,
nonprofit journalism,
nonprofits,
phone hacking scandal,
real names,
rupert murdoch,
sustainability
[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 [...]
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aggregation,
Amazon,
Business Insider,
facebook,
frictionless sharing,
google,
Kindle,
Kindle Fire,
media trust,
over-aggregation,
trust,
twitter
[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. [...]
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Facebook news apps,
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Netflix,
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Patch,
phone hacking scandal,
privacy,
Qwikster,
Ticker,
Timeline
[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, [...]
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AOL,
asymmetrical networks,
Boston Globe,
BostonGlobe.com,
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ethics,
facebook,
Facebook Subscribe,
James Murdoch,
news corp,
paywall,
phone hacking scandal,
portals,
TechCrunch,
the new york times,
Yahoo
[This review was originally posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab on July 18, 2011.]
News Corp.’s scandal keeps growing: Rupert Murdoch might have hoped News Corp.’s phone hacking scandal would die down when he closed the British tabloid News of the World last week, but it only served to fuel the issue’s explosion. This past week, the [...]
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BSkyB,
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facebook,
google,
Huffington Post,
MediaNews,
news corp,
phone hacking scandal,
rupert murdoch,
TapIn,
twitter
[This review was originally posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab on May 27, 2011.]
Censorship, the law, and Twitter: If we hadn’t already learned how social media are opening the traditional media’s gatekeeping role to the masses, we got a pretty good object lesson this week in Britain. Here’s what happened: To keep the British tabloids [...]
[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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app subscriptions,
Apple,
breaking news,
business models,
digital journalism business models,
facebook,
google news,
Osama bin Laden,
traffic,
twitter
[This review was originally posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab on April 15, 2011.]
Are HuffPo bloggers being exploited?: Arianna Huffington spent last week axing many of AOL’s paid writers, and this week she heard from a few of the unpaid ones in the form of a class-action lawsuit filed by Huffington Post bloggers, led by longtime HuffPo [...]