[This review was originally posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab on Dec. 23, 2011.]
Rethinking political fact-checking: PolitiFact, the fact-checking organization launched in 2007 by the St. Petersburg Times,named its lie of the year this week, and the choice wasn’t a popular one: The Democratic claim that Republicans voted to end Medicare was widely denounced among liberal [...]
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[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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[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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[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 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 June 3, 2011.]
The Times’ new top dog: There’s no question what the top story is this week: For the first time in eight years, the U.S.’ most prominent news organization, The New York Times, will have a new executive editor. And for the first [...]
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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 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 [...]