How CNN’s iReport enhanced the network’s coverage of the Japan earthquake and...
When the ground began to vibrate in Fukushima, Japan on March 11, Ryan McDonald thought it was just a “normal earthquake.” But the fear in his voice as the vibrations escalated was palpable. In video...
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The Geico Gecko meets The AOL Way: Are display advertisers too obsessed with...
Late last year, AOL announced it would be revamping its ad platform, shrinking the number of ads it serves and expanding the sizes of those ads. In some cases the ad units would be four times larger...
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The layered look: How Google News is integrating the social web
While many have been closely following the news of new social network projects from Google — whether it’s Google Wave, Google Buzz, or a rumored project reportedly called Google Me — the search giant...
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A place for Homicide Watch: Can a local blog fill some of the gaps in...
While I was sitting with Laura and Chris Amico in their apartment in the Adams Morgan area of Washington, D.C., Chris suddenly sat upright and began reading aloud a comment that had just come into the...
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The Pilates approach: How CNN is trouncing its competitors on the web
For the past several years, news outlets that cover the media industry have focused predominantly on television ratings when reporting on the cable news wars — a metric that, at least until recently,...
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How PBS used GetGlue to promote Ken Burns’“Prohibition”
The notion that social media buzz can drive television ratings or ticket sales is not a new one. As early as 2006, the producers of Snakes on a Plane ordered several days of additional film shooting...
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As Occupy Wall Street evolves, news sites find it “a great opportunity for...
Foster Kamer does not enjoy covering protests. Kamer, a senior editor at the New York Observer, recounted a recent conversation he had with Jack Shafer, the Reuters media columnist, about this very...
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Is the Huffington Post reinventing the art of liveblogging?
A few days ago, I clicked on a link to an Associated Press article published at the Huffington Post and reporting on a new AP poll that found widespread support for the Occupy Wall Street movement....
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How a photographer generated over $100,000 through Facebook
When I asked Craig Finlay how Facebook became a major lead generator for his wedding photography business, he interrupted me mid-sentence. “It’s not a major lead generator,” he said. “It’s the...
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NPR’s StateImpact project explores regional topics through focused,...
Scott Detrow heard a rumor, and like any good reporter, he set out to determine whether it was true. Detrow, who has spent several years covering state politics and government for seven public radio...
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How ‘Grammar Girl’ turned a single hobby podcast into a growing media network
Mignon Fogarty thought she’d arrived at the podcasting scene too late. It was 2006, and as a science and technical writer, she was trying to promote a science podcast she hosted, without much success....
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It’s small touches that can make a difference in New York’s layouts
In a recent long New York magazine interview with Jon Stewart, the Daily Show host made an offhand reference to a man named Conrad Murray, whom many likely recognized as the doctor who was convicted of...
View ArticleFrom silos to aggregators: On mobile, apps that cross news org boundaries...
For a brief time, starting in 2010, the news industry convinced itself that it could put the toothpaste back in the tube, and Josh Quittner counted himself among the most optimistic. In April of that...
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Shuffle wants to use Tinder-style swiping to learn what news you want on your...
In many ways, Alex Skatell seems like the last person in the world who would be developing a news product that could be described as anti-clickbait. After all, Skatell launched the Independent Journal...
View ArticleSlate’s podcast audience has tripled in a year, and its bet on audio over...
The Serial Spoiler Special — the Slate podcast that, each week, analyzed the most recent Serial episode — was Slate’s quickest podcast launch if you measure the time between its ideation and debut....
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How a hobby foreign affairs blog became a paywalled news destination — and a...
Like many journalism startups to emerge in recent years, the World Politics Review got its start because the kind of reporting its founder was interested in didn’t really exist at most traditional...
View ArticleCrossing the streams: Why competing publications are deciding to team up on...
Usually when two corporate entities enter into some kind of partnership, you can be certain a small army of lawyers is involved in the process, each side guaranteeing that no ambiguity exists as to who...
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