With the launch of The Upshot from the New York Times, there are now three major sites going after the "explanatory journalism" market. Each has its own unique flavor, but is the market for that kind of content really large enough to support that many sites?…
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Here comes The Upshot, the new explanatory journalism effort from the New York Times
The New York Times is launching The Upshot, a new site that its editor says will offer a combination of data journalism and explanatory reporting -- and also try to go head-to-head with new high-profile projects like Ezra Klein's Vox and Nate Silver's FiveThirtyEight…
Read MoreMarty Baron is partly right about the Washington Post and Ezra Klein — but mostly wrong
Washington Post editor-in-chief Marty Baron defended his decision not to finance Ezra Klein's vision for a news Wikipedia, saying it didn't make financial sense. He was probably right -- but the Post should have done it anyway…
Read MoreThree good things about Ezra Klein’s new site Vox, plus three challenges that it faces
Vox, the new explanatory journalism site from former Washington Post blogger Ezra Klein, launched on Sunday and it does many things well -- including a design based on information "cards" that looks good on a mobile device. But it faces some significant challenges…
Read MoreBefore the “explanatory journalism” craze started to catch fire, there was Syria Deeply
Lara Setrakian, a former foreign correspondent for ABC News, started Syria Deeply because she believed that a news site focused on a specific topic would fill a need in the journalism marketplace -- and she is planning to expand that idea with other sites like Arctic Deeply…
Read MoreIf Ezra Klein’s Vox can be the Wirecutter of news, it’ll be a must-read for me
I am embarrassingly uninformed on certain current events. I'm hoping Vox can help fix that.…
Read MoreWhy the rise of sites devoted to explanatory journalism is a trend worth celebrating
An increasing number of new-media startups -- and even new projects by existing media outlets -- are aimed at bringing context, background and analysis to the news instead of just trying to be the first to report something, and that's a very beneficial development…
Read MoreVox Media doesn’t just have to reinvent the news — it has to reinvent advertising too
Vox Media CEO Jim Bankoff, who just hired former Washington Post blogger Ezra Klein and a team to reinvent online news with something called Project X, says the new venture will be funded primarily by advertising -- but is that going to be enough to pay the bills?…
Read MoreEzra Klein reveals his new venture — a partnership with Vox Media aimed at bringing context to the news
Ezra Klein, who left his Wonkblog empire at the Washington Post for a new project, announced on Sunday night that he is joining Vox Media to build a news site that will focus on adding context to important stories…
Read MoreEzra Klein bolts the Post for his own venture — did the paper just lose another Politico?
After his offer of a co-ownership deal was rebuffed, Wonkblog founder Ezra Klein is leaving the Washington Post for his own venture -- a departure that reminds more than one media watcher of how the Post lost what would eventually become Politico.…
Read MoreWhy Jeff Bezos and the Washington Post would be smart to cut a deal with Ezra Klein
It looks like Washington Post blogger Ezra Klein might be leaving the newspaper, after his proposal for a standalone site funded by the Post was turned down -- a decision that new owner Jeff Bezos should reconsider, for a number of reasons.…
Read MoreMore pictures, less policy: Ezra Klein’s Wonkblog launches viral site Know More
Ezra Klein and the team behind the popular politics blog Wonkblog just launched a viral site called Know More. It's "an effort to break the slow web into parts that work for the social web," Klein says.…
Read MoreNew FiveThirtyEight.com, to be owned outright by ESPN, is still months from launch
Don't expect a revamped FiveThirtyEight right away: Nate Silver's political blog will be hosted by the New York Times through the end of August, and it could be months before ESPN launches the new site, Silver and ESPN president John Skipper said Monday.…
Read MorepaidContent turns 10: A brief history of digital media
Remember when Friendster was the hot social network, publishers doubted that ebooks would ever sell, and Netflix (s NFLX) thought DVDs in red envelopes was the future? We do -- that was that state of digital media when paidContent launched in 2002.…
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