16 Sep, 2011
Posted by: Mark In: this week
[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
Posted by: Mark In: this week
[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 [...]
13 Aug, 2011
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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 [...]
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 [...]
05 May, 2011
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[This review was originally posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab on April 22, 2011.]
Is Flipboard a competitor or collaborator?: Flipboard has quickly become one of the hottest news apps for the iPad, and it continued its streak last week when it announced it had raised $50 million in funding. Flipboard’s Mike McCue told All Things Digital’s [...]
05 May, 2011
Posted by: Mark In: this week
[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 [...]
03 Apr, 2011
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[This review was originally posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab on April 1, 2011.]
Putting the Times’ pay plan in place: If you read last week’s review, the first half of this week’s should feel like déjà vu — lots of back-and-forth about the wisdom of The New York Times’ new online pay plan, and some more [...]
03 Apr, 2011
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[This review was originally posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab on March 25, 2011.]
Debating the Times’ pricing structure: There was really only one big news story in the media world this week: The New York Times’ paid-content plan, which is live in Canada now and coming to everyone else on Monday. I divided the issue [...]
03 Apr, 2011
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[This review was originally posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab on March 18, 2011.]
First reactions to The Times’ paid-content plans: Yesterday The New York Times rolled out the online paid-content plans they’ve been talking about for a little more than a year. You get 20 articles a month for free (besides the ones you get to through [...]