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Post Industrial Journalism: Adapting to the Present

A report by Emily Bell, CW Anderson, and Clay Shirky has just been released

Today we publish our report, “Post Industrial Journalism: Adapting to the Present” from the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at... More

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What’s happening at the BBC

The Corporation is facing a serious challenge to its future and to its independence

“To lose one parent, Mr Worthing, may be regarded as misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.” —Oscar Wilde, The... More

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Journalism by numbers

It’s time to embrace the growing influence of real-time data on the media business

Everywhere we go, everything we do, we send signals. Simple acts create streams of data, whether it is crossing... More

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The YouTube campaign

Not everyone trying video streaming will still be doing so in four years time, but the disruption this time feels real

It is not easy to know if you have just witnessed a ‘seminal moment,’ particularly in the fluid and dystopian... More

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In NYT’s search for transformation, Thompson a surprising choice

“If Thompson manages more than failure, it will, in some ways, be an astonishing achievement”

Is Mark Thompson the right person to be chief executive of The New York Times? The cynical might note that,... More

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Murdoch may sell his British papers

The British press asserts the embattled mogul may ditch the papers under phone hacking scrutiny

News International, the UK outpost of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation, might be preparing to sell off or isolate its scandal-struck... More

Murdoch takes a bow

If the Leveson Inquiries revealed anything, it was that the News Corp. chief’s self perceptions make entertaining viewing

Rupert Murdoch finished his two-day testimony before the Leveson Inquiry on Thursday, convened to address the phone-hacking scandal that emanated... More

Exit James Murdoch

Cracks in the News Corp. castle walls?

James Murdoch’s evacuation from the mess of News International’s UK newspaper business has been in the cards for a long... More

Exit Interview

Whither the wizard of HuffPo?

Paul Berry became the chief technology officer of the Huffington Post in 2007. He developed technical strategies that exploited... More

The Blessings of Networks

Emily Bell takes on Dean Starkman’s “news gurus” argument

Dean Starkman's long read on 'the news gurus' in the Columbia Journalism Review starts out with the story of the... More

Rupert Murdoch’s “Arse”

An ex-tabloid editor tells Parliament who kissed what

Ever since the News of The World phone-hacking scandal gathered pace in July this year, members of the UK press... More

Signal and Noise

Trying to follow global news in America, a newcomer finds that something is missing

If you wished to see a vivid illustration of how the broadcast news media in the US are perceived in... More

Barack Obama: ‘those old times aren’t coming back’

“It used to be there were local newspapers everywhere. If you wanted to be a journalist, you could really make a good living working for your hometown paper”

The Guardian’s editor opens up on Reddit

Alan Rusbridger, editor of The Guardian, answered questions in an Ask Me Anything

The (almost) lost speech of Justice Anthony Kennedy

How his insightful remarks about the Constitution inadvertently make the case for a Supreme Court “media pool”

Fox News sues TVEyes for copyright infringement

Says subscription service sells access to its content without permission nor compensation

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