[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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citizen journalism,
facebook,
frictionless sharing,
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 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,
iPad advertising,
iPad news apps,
Julian Assange,
Minneapolis Star-Tribune,
news apps,
newspapers,
objectivity,
Occupy Wall Street,
paywalls,
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. 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 Sept. 9, 2011.]
TechCrunch, ethics, and new notions of journalism: The prominent tech news site TechCrunch tends to find itself in the middle of some controversy or another fairly regularly. Usually they’re relatively inconsequential inside baseball, but this week’s blowup is by far its biggest, [...]
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Alden Global Capital,
AOL,
Carol Bartz,
Digital First,
ethics,
information,
John Paton,
Journal Register Co.,
MediaNews,
Michael Arrington,
TechCrunch,
The Guardian,
transparency,
WikiLeaks,
Yahoo
[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 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 [...]
[This review was originally posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab on Jan. 28, 2011.]
Playing WikiLeaks Whack-a-Mole: Ever since WikiLeaks broke through into the public’s consciousness last summer, observers have been predicting that its functions would be replicated by other organizations, both within and outside traditional journalism. We’ve seen signs of that for a couple of months, [...]
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aggregation,
Al Jazeera,
Apple,
Bill Keller,
content farms,
demand media,
google,
iPad,
Julian Assange,
Keith Olbermann,
MSNBC,
Ongo,
paid content,
search,
subscriptions,
the new york times,
WikiLeaks
[This review was originally posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab on Jan. 14, 2011.]
Managing reporting errors in the river of news: Though Saturday’s tragic shooting of Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was primarily a political story, it created several ripples that quickly spread into the media world. (One of those was the debate over our rather [...]
[This review was originally posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab on Jan. 7, 2011.]
A net neutrality compromise: The Review might have taken two weeks off for the holidays, but the rest of the future-of-news world kept on humming. Consider this more your “Holidays in Review” than your “Week in Review.” Let’s get to it.
The biggest [...]
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2010,
2011,
business model,
FCC,
Google newsstand,
journalism,
Julian Assange,
net neutrality,
newsstand,
tablets,
The Guardian,
WikiLeaks
—[This review was originally posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab on Dec. 17, 2010.]
The media and WikiLeaks’ uneasy coexistence: The current iteration of the WikiLeaks story is about to move into its fourth week, and it continues to swallow up most future-of-journalism news in its path. By now, it’s branched out into several distinct facets, [...]
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2010,
2011,
aggregation,
Anonymous,
CNN,
iPad,
iPad apps,
Julian Assange,
news apps,
Openleaks,
print,
syndication,
WikiLeaks