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How Buzzfeed got its biggest traffic day…ever

by Megan Garber on Dec 5, 2011 • No Comments

Yesterday — an unassuming Monday after a relatively slow news weekend — was Buzzfeed's biggest traffic day. Ever. Part of that isn't too surprising. Buzzfeed's traffic, says its founder, Jonah Peretti, has been trending upward overall, benefitting from the overall increase in the user bases of Facebook, Twitter, StumbleUpon, and other social platforms. Buzzfeed currently...

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Wired releases images via Creative Commons, but reopens a debate on what “noncommercial” means

by Joshua Benton on Nov 8, 2011 • No Comments

Wired.com today announced it would, from today forward, be releasing all of its staff-produced photos under a Creative Commons license. Creative Commons has been a force for good on the web, letting people share their work with others and making it easier to let them define the terms of that sharing. And getting Wired —...

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This Week in Review: Amazon’s challenge to the iPad, and Facebook’s ‘frictionless sharing’

by Mark Coddington on Sep 30, 2011 • No Comments

Every Friday, Mark Coddington sums up the week's top stories about the future of news. Also this week: Pew studies on declining trust in the media and local news consumption, Business Insider faces accusations of unethical aggregation, and other recommended reading.

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This Week in Review: Amazon’s challenge to the iPad, and Facebook’s ‘frictionless sharing’

by Mark Coddington on Sep 30, 2011 • No Comments

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Another perk for NYT subscribers: “Share your access”

by Megan Garber on Jul 6, 2011 • No Comments

Are you a New York Times print subscriber? Are you related to anyone? If so, today's your lucky day: The Times, in an email just sent out to print subscribers, is announcing that subscribers will now be able to share their digital access with the family member of their choosing. Think of it as the...

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Social is for sharing, not hiding

by Jeff Jarvis on Jun 30, 2011 • No Comments

I fear we are on the verge of fetishizing privacy. Well, we’re not — but our media and government are. Media’s assumptions Yesterday I got a call from a journalist about Google+ and its Circles. He was not at all hostile to Google, Facebook, or social, but even so, implicit in his questions was a presumption...

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Canadians Prefer to Get News from Friends (not Editors) on Social Media

by MediaShift on May 2, 2011 • No Comments

Journalists today are expected to be active on social media, sharing observations, anecdotes and links with their audience. Facebook itself is reaching out to newsrooms, recently launching the Journalists on Facebook page as a resource for...

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More data on The Daily: What’s prime time for iPad use? And which stories get tweeted the most?

by Joshua Benton on Apr 6, 2011 • No Comments

Yesterday, I wrote about a fascinating set of data I'd obtained with the help of the folks at PostRank: Every tweet generated from within The Daily iPad app from launch through March 31. I used that data in yesterday's piece to try to learn about the relative size of The Daily's audience. And it showed...

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Decline, plateau, decline: New data on The Daily suggests a social media decline and a tough road ahead

by Joshua Benton on Apr 5, 2011 • No Comments

While the news industry looks at smartphone and tablet apps as a chance to build more engaged readers — and maybe even get people to pay! — for those of us who watch the business, apps are frustratingly opaque. Some of the most interesting work in the future of news is happening in these apps...

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Decline, plateau, decline: New data on The Daily suggests a social media decline and a tough road ahead

by Joshua Benton on Apr 5, 2011 • No Comments

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Tweet late, email early, and don’t forget about Saturday: Using data to develop a social media strategy

by Andrew Phelps on Mar 29, 2011 • No Comments

That's according to Dan Zarrella, a social media researcher (with 33,000 followers himself). Zarrella works for HubSpot, mining data on hundreds of millions of tweets, blog posts, and email newsletters to help marketers find trends. News organization should pay attention, too.

Zarrella says the right Twitter strategy depends in part on what your goals...

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Japan: When public broadcasting meets limited access

by Joshua Benton on Mar 11, 2011 • No Comments

On the long list of things I know nothing about are (a) the Japanese language, (b) the state of fair use in Japanese media law, and (c) the legal structure of Japanese public broadcaster NHK. But an article in Nihon Keizai Shimbun seems to hit on a lot of the same issues we see in...

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