Social networks are the overworked writer’s best friend. It’s easy to observe the latest outrage on Twitter, grab a few good jokes from Reddit,…
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Recent Enterprise File Sync and Sharing News
Here is a brief round-up of some recent news from the Enterprise File Synchronization and Sharing market segment. EFSS Application Security MobileIron…
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Social news curation app Nuzzel finds backers in the media world
Though it may be short on manners and healthy discourse, the Internet is almost certainly never short on content. There is so…
Read MoreIn the age of niche media, everyone still really wants to be mass
As doctoral student Frederik De Boer pointed out in a recent blog post on some of the new-media sites like BuzzFeed and Fusion, if you don't focus on a specific market or target a specific kind of reader, you run the risk of blending in with everyone else…
Read MoreAt long last, the New York Times is thinking about digital first
The New York Times is taking a small but important step towards its digital-first future by getting rid of the traditional "Page One" print meetings and emphasizing the web and other platforms instead…
Read MoreIt’s not about quizzes and listicles — it’s about experimentation
As Columbia Journalism School researcher Maxwell Foxman points out in a research paper, media companies could learn a lot from the game-playing approach that sites like BuzzFeed take towards their content…
Read MoreThe viral content problem: Many people don’t care whether it’s true
Author and journalist Craig Silverman looks at the explosion of online hoaxes, rumors and misinformation all around us -- but one of the most powerful factors behind this trend is that many people don't care whether what they share is true or not…
Read MoreForget everything you thought you knew about the homepage
Why do the homepages of so many news sites look the same? Former National Public Radio digital editor Melody Kramer came up with more than 60 different ways to rethink the homepage…
Read MoreBrian Williams was an anachronism even before his memory problems
Some media watchers are wondering whether NBC anchor Brian Williams will be able to regain his position at the pinnacle of the U.S. news business now that he has been caught in a lie -- but the reality is he lost that position a long time ago, thanks to the web…
Read MoreBuzzFeed gets serious with editorial standards and ethics guide
In an attempt to hold what was once an experimental viral-content lab to higher standards of conduct, BuzzFeed has published a new comprehensive standards and ethical guidelines document that tells staff what they should and shouldn't do…
Read MoreEmily Bell: Social networks and journalists need to work together
Former Guardian digital editor and Columbia University professor Emily Bell says social platforms like Facebook and Google need to work with journalists and media organizations to protect principles like free of speech and freedom of the press…
Read MoreHow I audited my daily media habits and improved the way I read
Creating web content is incredibly easy — but filtering content is really hard. In late 2014, I realized I was reading too…
Read MoreWhy your Spotify or Netflix for print content is probably doomed
Services like Magzter and NextIssue promise a digital version of the old-fashioned newsstand, where people can flip through the virtual pages of their favorite magazines -- but that's not the way most people consume content any more…
Read MoreCNN to study newsroom drone use for the FAA
The Federal Aviation Administration has not been kind to businesses hoping to legally operate drones, but it is slowly allowing their use by…
Read MoreIt may not feel like it, but the media has never been so accurate
It seems as though there are more mistakes, hoaxes and journalistic failures than there have ever been, but former Reuters media critic Jack Shafer argues they are just easier to spot now…
Read MoreEverything you need to know about the recent Snapchat leaks
It has been a dramatic 24 hours for Snapchat, which had some internal emails leaked last night via the Sony hack. Sony Entertainment’s CEO,…
Read MoreThere’s more to media than posting links on Facebook and Twitter
The fact that Facebook and Twitter have come to dominate the way that news and information travels online has its downsides as well -- how do we reach potential readers who choose not to use those networks?…
Read MoreExternal traffic to Spanish news sites plummets after Google move
Traffic-measurement firm Chartbeat says that external traffic to Spanish news sites is down by double digits in the wake of their removal from the Google News index…
Read MoreThere’s never been a better time to run a niche media business
Turning a media site into a massive, multibillion-dollar property reaching hundreds of millions of readers isn't the only route to success any more -- starting and running a niche or targeted site has never been easier…
Read MoreWhy I’m interested in First Look’s new social-journalism project
As I reported earlier today, First Look Media editor Andy Carvin — formerly of National Public Radio — has just launched a…
Read MoreAndy Carvin launches social-media reporting team for First Look
Former NPR staffer and Twitter-based journalist Andy Carvin is launching a team of half a dozen social-media "anchor/producers" who will be embedded in various social platforms like Twitter, Facebook and Reddit and use them as sources of journalism…
Read MoreGoogle News: The biggest missed opportunity in media right now
Despite all of its power and resources, Google has done relatively nothing to improve Google News since it launched. A German designer's rethinking of the site shows just a fraction of the useful things the search giant could do if it wanted to.…
Read MoreLongform: Why do we measure the value of content by its length?
I remember what an editor I know told a journalist who asked him how long his story should be: “As long as…
Read MoreHacking media: Al Jazeera hackathon imagines the future of news
The Qatar-based news operation Al Jazeera is notable for a number of reasons, including the fact that it is one of the…
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