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Silencing WikiLeaks
What I have found most significant in the WikiLeaks release of U.S. diplomatic cables is not the information itself or the fact it was leaked, but the moves by governments and large corporate web...
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2010 in review: Top blog posts and tweets
As we all do when a year comes to a close, I’m taking a look back at 2010. Below are my most-read posts from this blog and my most-retweeted posts from Twitter for the year. Most-read posts My career...
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How to customize the appearance of Storify on your site
Storify is growing in popularity and being used by more and more sites to tell stories by curating social media. But while you see Storify embedded on more and more sites, you’ll notice it looks...
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The TBD community shows what it’s about
I felt like I needed to write something about today’s announced changes at TBD, which consist of widespread layoffs of the news staff. Rather than talk about the changes themselves, which you can read...
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My career v3.0: Writing and teaching mobile, social media for Poynter
A little over a year ago I blogged here about starting version 2.0 of my journalism career for an ambitious local online news startup in Washington, D.C. TBD.com has been an incredible experience, with...
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White House Tweetup live blog
I was invited to attend the holiday edition White House Tweetup on Monday. In the morning we will ask questions of many administration officials including CTO Aneesh Chopra, economic adviser Brian...
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Paton: ‘Crappy newspaper executives’ are biggest threat to journalism
Digital First Media CEO John Paton, in a speech to Canadian journalists: I am struggling hard to teach this old dog new tricks. Struggling to accept that much of what we know is no longer valid. And...
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CNN crew tapes its risky path out of Syria
CNN correspondent Ivan Watson and his news crew videotaped their dangerous journey leaving Syria. Says CNN photog Joe Duran: “I’ve done some tough assignments, I’d say this is the most difficult one...
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Live updates from ASNE / NAA conference sessions Tuesday
I’m attending many panels at these news media gatherings in Washington, D.C. Below are some of my favorite moments. This will update as the day goes on. [View the story "Live reporting from ASNE / NAA...
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"There is no way to create a universally respected system that also tells...
“There is no way to create a universally respected system that also tells people what to think. I changed course and settled for a system that would remind people when to think instead. I think that is...
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"Journalism schools are known for producing writers. They’re known for...
“Journalism schools are known for producing writers. They’re known for different types of narratives. They are not necessarily lauded for producing math or computer science majors. That has to change.”...
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"Denton’s vision for Gawker Media’s editorial product is very much moving...
“Denton’s vision for Gawker Media’s editorial product is very much moving towards comments and away from posts… If Denton’s scheme goes according to plan, when you follow a link to a Gawker website, it...
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How a newspaper announces (in print) that it is cutting print...
How a newspaper announces (in print) that it is cutting print editions. Via How Times-Picayune, Alabama newspaper changes played on their front pages)
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"I’ve come to realize that journalists don’t like change. It’s threatening to...
“I’ve come to realize that journalists don’t like change. It’s threatening to them. Their first instinct is to scoff at new ways, then find fault if the ideas begin to take hold in the marketplace....
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"Lost revenue isn’t the only change befalling what we used to call the news...
“Lost revenue isn’t the only change befalling what we used to call the news industry. It’s not even the most significant change. To adapt to the current ecosystem, the Post (like all papers) will have...
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The Twitter bird (did you know his name is Larry?) is getting a...
The Twitter bird (did you know his name is Larry?) is getting a makeover and a haircut. (via WSJ)
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Come to my seminar: Building a Successful Social Media Strategy
Come to my seminar: Building a Successful Social Media Strategy: I’m helping teach this along with some fantastic Poynter faculty next month. Today is the last day for early-bird pricing.
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The most-visited news websites among Americans in May, according...
The most-visited news websites among Americans in May, according to Nielsen
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"Print is becoming a specialty. A novelty. A vanity. It’s things that end in...
“Print is becoming a specialty. A novelty. A vanity. It’s things that end in -ty mostly. [laughs] It doesn’t make a lot of sense, given planetary resources, given inefficiencies, to force the...
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"In the digital era, one of the greatest challenges is that AP is...
“In the digital era, one of the greatest challenges is that AP is fundamentally a business-to-business operation, yet we need to find ways to connect to individual readers, viewers and listeners of our...
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"The future for developers? It looks like, ultimately, it’s not building apps...
“The future for developers? It looks like, ultimately, it’s not building apps to read Twitter, it’s building apps into Twitter.” - Matt Buchanan, The Future Of Twitter Is Nothing You’ve Seen Before
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"Media is the way to build the brand; data is the way to build the revenue."
“Media is the way to build the brand; data is the way to build the revenue.” - Rafat Ali, explaining the approach to building his new startup
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"In 2012, the definition of journalist must include bringing more people to...
“In 2012, the definition of journalist must include bringing more people to my journalism. It’s not enough to say ‘I report well, I write well’ … bringing more people to your journalism is part of who...
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"News startups large and small—MAPLight, Smoking Gun, Homicide Watch,...
“News startups large and small—MAPLight, Smoking Gun, Homicide Watch, ProPublica—are all experimenting with new sources of informational value—amateurs, crowds, databases—and with new possibilities for...
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"On October 3, CNN.com will also debut new clip-and-share video editing...
“On October 3, CNN.com will also debut new clip-and-share video editing features. With DVR-like controls, clip-and-share makes everyone a CNN editor. Users can quickly fast-forward and rewind to the...
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"A publication’s app should be designed and built with purpose and...
“A publication’s app should be designed and built with purpose and consideration. The Magazine works because I based decisions not on what everyone else was doing, but on what would be best for this...
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"I think people become more informed citizens when they understand the...
“I think people become more informed citizens when they understand the processes of journalism, not just the products of journalism. By following me, they get to see the processes in action – and...
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"If you are not asking yourself every couple of years how to once more scare...
“If you are not asking yourself every couple of years how to once more scare yourself to death, then you are living something of the coward’s life. Ain’t no room for cowards in journalism at this...
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"Nobody ‘goes online’ any more: the internet is becoming an ambient...
“Nobody ‘goes online’ any more: the internet is becoming an ambient background thing-that’s-always-there, rather than a mass communications medium that people consciously think of themselves as paying...
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Richard Engel describes being kidnapped in Syria
NBC’s Richard Engel describes being kidnapped in Syria: A group of about 15 armed men were fanning out around us. Three or four of them stood in the middle of the road blocking our vehicles. The others...
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Facebook (still) wants to be your ‘personalized newspaper’
Mark Zuckerberg is getting a lot of attention for talking about today’s News Feed redesign as making Facebook a “personalized newspaper.” Which sounds OK, I guess, but that vague notion is also exactly...
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Thayer accused of plagiarizing parts of article The Atlantic wanted to...
Jeremy Duns | New York | CJR “Nate Thayer is a plagiarist,” says Jeremy Duns. If you’ve been following media news this week, you know that Thayer ignited a debate by publicly berating The Atlantic for...
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Google Glass is here: How to build news apps that get in users’ faces
Google Glass, a pair of wearable computer-enhanced eyeglasses, is possibly the next-big-thing in mobile computing. Google co-founder Sergey Brin wears Google Glass glasses at an event in San Francisco...
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News organizations can now see how their content performs on Pinterest
The image-sharing network Pinterest released a new analytics tool this week that serves up lots of data about how its users engage with your website’s content. Here are some of the questions you can...
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Google prepares a mobile marketplace for news content
Android Police | The Next Web | Read Write A newspaper section is coming to the Google Play store for Android-powered mobile devices, according to a report by Android Police. Google Play News would...
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‘Let Me Tweet That For You’ site raises concerns for journalists
This tweet looks pretty real, doesn’t it? It’s not, though. I faked that tweet using a Web service named “Let Me Tweet That For You.” It’s pretty simple — you type in a Twitter username and a message,...
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The latest on new HQs for NPR, Miami Herald and Washington Post
NPR officially moves into a new headquarters in Washington, D.C. today, five years after it bought the property and began planning for the move. NPR had been based in a narrow triangular building in...
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Andrew Sullivan tweaks paywall model after initial subscriber surge slows
The Dish After raising a few hundred thousand dollars immediately and about $611,000 after a few weeks, subscriber growth is slowing for Andrew Sullivan’s Daily Dish blog. Sullivan wrote Monday that...
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How Flipboard just created 50 million magazine editors
Inside Flipboard | All Things D | Giga Om If you wanted to draw up a plan for drastically remaking the landscape of mobile news discovery, it might look something like this: 1) Release a beautiful news...
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