[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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aggregation,
attribution,
businesses,
Dean Starkman,
future of journalism,
google,
Google+ Pages,
institutions,
Jim Romenesko,
Martin Nisenholtz,
neutral tweet,
Poynter Institute,
retweets,
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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google,
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Occupy Wall Street,
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public media,
SB Nation,
The Independent,
the new york times,
The Verge,
transparency,
Vox Media,
WikiLeaks,
Yahoo,
Yahoo Livestand
[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,
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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 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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App Store,
Apple,
campaign journalism,
CNN,
Financial Times,
google,
HTML5,
Hurricane Irene,
hype,
identity,
political journalism,
real names,
The Guardian,
WikiLeaks,
Zite
[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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google,
identity,
Jack Shafer,
Jim Romenesko,
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Poynter,
real names,
resignation,
Romenesko,
Slate,
Steve Jobs,
Tim Cook
[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 [...]
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big ideas,
google,
ideas,
metered model,
mobile media,
mobile phones,
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Motorola Mobility,
Neal Gabler,
news corp,
paywall,
phone hacking scandal,
rupert murdoch,
social media,
the new york times,
twitter
[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 [...]
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google,
Huffington Post,
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Patch,
phone hacking scandal,
real names,
rupert murdoch,
tablets,
the new york times,
Tribune Co.
[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 [...]
[This review was originally posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab on July 22, 2011.]
Murdoch’s damage-control efforts: As News Corp.’s hacking scandal continues to metastasize, it can be difficult to keep up with all the background, angles, and implications. The best one-stop source is Mallary Jean Tenore’s explainer for Poynter, and I’ll try to update you on [...]