[This review was originally posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab on Oct. 28, 2011.]
News consumers and paid content on tablets: We’re now a year and a half into the tablet era, so we’ve started to get a more stable sense of exactly who’s using them and how. The Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in [...]
[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 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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[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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[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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[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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[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 [...]
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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 [...]
[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 [...]