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Newsbeat, Chartbeat’s news-focused analytics tool, places its bets on the entrepreneurial side of news orgs

by Megan Garber on Aug 1, 2011 • No Comments

Late last week, Chartbeat released a new product: Newsbeat, a tool that takes the real-time analytics it already offers and tailors them even more directly to the needs of news orgs. Newsbeat essentially breaks down the news site into its constituent elements via a permissioning system that provides personalized dashboards for individual reporters and editors....

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A newspaper editor’s critique of Marshall McLuhan in 1969: “I find no generalities here that I am able to distill into editing particulars”

by Joshua Benton on Jul 22, 2011 • No Comments

This being McLuhan Week at the Lab, we've shared a couple essays looking back on the media theorist's legacy. So it's only appropriate that we dive into the Nieman Foundation archives to see how people were talking about Marshall McLuhan at the height of his fame and influence. While the Lab is less than three...

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Chasing pageviews with values: How the Christian Science Monitor has adjusted to a web-first, SEO’d world

by Jonathan Groves and Carrie Brown-Smith on Apr 20, 2011 • No Comments

At the International Symposium on Online Journalism earlier this month, one of my favorite papers presented was by Drury's Jonathan Groves and Carrie Brown-Smith of the University of Memphis. They've been spending a lot of time in the newsroom of the Christian Science Monitor to observe its transition from a daily print newspaper to a...

Nieman Journalism Lab / Publishers

Why the NYT Mag’s editor credits are a great idea

by Megan Garber on Mar 4, 2011 • No Comments

"I would make it illegal to reveal the names of editors if I were dictator of the world," says Jack Shafer, reacting to the New York Times Magazine’s introduction of editor credits to its features. The move, he notes, is among other things, reflective of something nefarious: "the growing fetishization of credit-making and -taking in...

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“Like,” “share,” and “recommend”: How the warring verbs of social media will influence the news’ future

by Joshua Benton on Feb 28, 2011 • No Comments

It appears that Facebook has settled on a central metaphor for the behavior of its 600 million users. See an interesting article? Want your friends to see it too? Facebook's offered up two primary verbs to bring action to that formless desire: "Share" and "Like."

But the writing's been on the wall for "Share"...

Nieman Journalism Lab / Publishers

From Indymedia to Wikileaks: What a decade of hacking journalistic culture says about the future of news

by C.W. Anderson on Dec 9, 2010 • No Comments

When I read tweets like "the first serious infowar is now engaged, and the field of battle is WikiLeaks," I think it's worth taking a step back and trying to put recent developments in perspective. The battle over Wikileaks, and the journalistic questions that it raises, are genuinely new developments — but they're...

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The Case for Turning Around Print Media Companies

by MediaShift on Jul 14, 2010 • No Comments

This article was co-authored by Neil Heyside.The media and publishing industry -- and print publishing in particular -- doesn't have to show up to its own funeral.There's still opportunity to enable profitable, desirable businesses. We...

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OurBlook Roundup: Journalism Will Survive in Digital Age

by MediaShift on May 4, 2010 • No Comments

OurBlook.com is a website that gathers opinions from today's top leaders in the hopes of collaboratively finding tomorrow's solutions. It is funded by Paul Mongerson, a retired CEO who has a long history of philanthropy in the journalism world....

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Newsbeat, Chartbeat’s news-focused analytics tool, places its bets on the entrepreneurial side of news orgs

A newspaper editor’s critique of Marshall McLuhan in 1969: “I find no generalities here that I am able to distill into editing particulars”

Why the NYT Mag’s editor credits are a great idea

From Indymedia to Wikileaks: What a decade of hacking journalistic culture says about the future of news

The Case for Turning Around Print Media Companies

OurBlook Roundup: Journalism Will Survive in Digital Age

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