Scissor Cuts Paper, Cat Pix Beat Plagiarism
The Web called Zakaria out, and rightly so, for violating the basic tenets of his chosen professional realm. But he could just come over to the Web and do that all day every day and be basically fine...
View ArticleThe Empty Chair Beat "The Newsroom"
The behind-the-scenes at Piers Morgan right now is the episode of Newsroom I want to see. – Megan McCarthy, via Twitter. Rep. Todd Akin (R-Mo.) was scheduled to appear on “Piers Morgan Tonight” Monday,...
View ArticleBreaking News Is Broken and Circa Wants to Fix It
Want to get news on your smartphone? You’ve got plenty of options. But if you ask Circa CEO Matt Galligan, none of them is especially good. “The content gets a different design, so that it fits on the...
View ArticleIt's a Protest … It's a Cutback …
anxiously awaiting The Daily Planet’s move to three day per week publishing. – From commenter Everett Will, on a post about DC Comics’ decision to have Clark Kent quit the Daily Planet in Superman #13
View ArticleTen Things About David Cohn
Formerly a freelance technology reporter, he co-founded the crowd-funded journalism site Spot.Us in 2008. Now, David Cohn is the founding editor of Circa, the innovative news-reading iPhone app that...
View ArticleStorify Gets a Face-Lift
Social media aggregation site Storify debuted a major aesthetic refresh to its Web site on Tuesday morning, revamping the main homepage and tweaking the site’s search tools to better surface the most...
View ArticleInterview: C.W. Anderson and Emily Bell Discuss the Future of...
Last night, San Francisco got a high-dose injection of East Coast media experts. In an event space once belonging to the San Francisco Chronicle, New York University’s Clay Shirky, Columbia...
View ArticleSurvive.
Our overall recommendation for new news organizations is even simpler than for journalists or for legacy organizations: Survive. –From a Columbia Journalism School report by CUNY’s C.W. Anderson,...
View ArticleInterview: Corey Ford, CEO of Media Accelerator Matter Ventures
You can’t throw a rock in Silicon Valley without hitting a media start-up. But within that field, new and untested business models are the most important link to journalism’s future, said Matter...
View ArticleThings Get Emotional on the Front Stoop
Little value for journalists or their readership is created in the race to be first. We need a media that races to be right. – Dave Pell, in a blog post entitled “Get Off My Stoop”
View ArticleTop Five Social Media Predictions for 2013
Image copyright Allies InteractiveWith the New Year comes new predictions, and the same is true for social media in the business world. Many brands, both big and small, pour time and resources into the...
View ArticleMeet the Mobile Media Projects That Just Won $2.4 Million
This just in from the world of news: Mobile matters. That’s the clear — if not all that surprising — message from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, which just announced the winners of a...
View ArticleOut-Trending the Trendmakers: NewsWhip Says It Defeats Twitter and Facebook's...
Yes, it’s possible to stay on top of the news entirely from within Twitter and Facebook … but it takes work. Following the right number of people (so as not to get overwhelmed) posting about a broad...
View ArticleOld Media Is the New Hotness for Chris Hughes and Larry Kramer
The business of news is a hard one, but at least two people running publishing institutions say they’re optimistic. For the moment, printed publications are valuable because they’re an established way...
View ArticleRegrets
We want to send the message that when things go wrong the best action is to admit the error and get back to work. – From a blog post by the Knight Foundation, expressing regret for paying a speaker’s...
View ArticleMatter Accelerator Announces First Class of Media Startups
Matter, an accelerator centered around for-profit media entrepreneurship, announced today the first six startups that will receive a $50,000 investment and three months of mentorship in San Francisco....
View ArticleCreating Content
Journalistic integrity boils down to the individual, and if someone’s willing to be corrupted, it’s probably not just the possibility of a job in the industry that’s a problem. – Elizabeth Spiers,...
View ArticleMedia Matters to Startups at Matter Demo Day
Yesterday was a graduation day of sorts for the media accelerator Matter’s inaugural class in San Francisco. The group’s first-ever demo day featured six startups pitching their products to venture...
View ArticleViral Video: In Which I Am Impressed by the Jazz Hands of Yahoo CEO Marissa...
Here’s part of an interview I did last week with longtime entrepreneur (and gadfly) Jason Calacanis, live in San Francisco for his “This Week in Startups” online video show. It covered a range of...
View ArticleInstagram Adds Web Embedding in Bid for Real-Time Relevance
The real-time battle rages on. Instagram on Wednesday announced the latest in a string of recent updates, now allowing users to embed videos and photos taken with the photo-sharing application on sites...
View ArticleDear Jeff Bezos, Here's What I Saw as an Analog Nobody in the Mailroom of the...
Dear Jeff, While it might seem an awful cliche, the fact of the matter is — if you go back to a time long before the commercial Internet existed, and well before you became so rich that you have $250...
View ArticleATD Week in Review: Facebook Gets More Twittery and Kara's Open Letter to...
Asa Mathat / AllThingsD.comIn case you missed anything, here’s a quick roundup of some of the news that powered AllThingsD this week: Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos bought the Washington Post for $250 million,...
View ArticleThe Best Tech News Site That Isn't a Tech News Site That Didn't Exist Yesterday
There are lots of places to get a day’s worth of comprehensive tech coverage. Like the site you’re reading now, for instance. And Techmeme does a bang-up job of telling you what most tech sites are...
View ArticleEverything You've Ever Wanted to Know About News on the Web, Which Will Take...
I don’t know what to say about Riptide, the massive oral history of digital journalism that popped up on the Web tonight. That’s because I’ve been looking at it for a couple hours, and have no idea how...
View ArticleKids Won't Read Investigative Journalism -- But Maybe They'll Play a...
It’s hard enough to get adults to read serious journalism online. Even on its homepage, the Center for Investigative Reporting has “Read This Later” links to let readers save its articles (which...
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