Can Yahoo Woo San Francisco?

Search giant readies a hyperlocal network

By Lauren Kirchner   Aug 27, 2010 at 04:30 PM

Following rival AOL’s lead, Yahoo has started a hyperlocal rollout. First stop: San Francisco. Yahoo purchased online publisher (content farm)... More

Longshot Wants Your Stories (Right Away)

By Lauren Kirchner   Aug 27, 2010 at 03:05 PM

The Magazine Formerly Known As 48 HR (before a cease-and-desist letter from CBS made them change their name) is back!... More

“Radical” Restructuring, Layoffs at USA Today

By Lauren Kirchner   Aug 27, 2010 at 11:54 AM

USA Today, the second-largest newspaper in the country after The Wall Street Journal, is undergoing a company-wide shift in focus... More

The Fastest-Growing Media Companies in America

Community news in Texas, private mags for colleges

By Lauren Kirchner   Aug 26, 2010 at 03:49 PM

Inc. magazine has released its annual list of the 5000 fastest-growing private companies in the country. Sadly, but perhaps not... More

2010 APME Awards Announced

Here are the winning stories

By Lauren Kirchner   Aug 25, 2010 at 05:28 PM

The Associated Press Managing Editors (APME) has posted the winners of its 2010 contests. But we’ve got the links! Congratulations... More

Knight Funds Tech Initiatives for Community-Building

By Lauren Kirchner   Aug 25, 2010 at 04:40 PM

The Knight Foundation’s Technology for Engagement Initiative, which will fund organizations using technology in the most creative and viable ways,... More

TBD Invites Readers to Map Metro Problems

By Lauren Kirchner   Aug 25, 2010 at 12:39 PM

With the new service Crowdmap, TBD is collecting information from readers about Washington D.C.’s Metro system. Commuters write in about... More

Patch’s Problematic Redesign

Blurring the lines between edited and user-generated content

By Lauren Kirchner   Aug 24, 2010 at 04:29 PM

AOL’s Patch Media launched its 100th hyperlocal news site last week in Morristown, New Jersey, and is apparently planning on... More

Denver Gets a 21st Century Newsstand

By Lauren Kirchner   Aug 24, 2010 at 10:26 AM

The Denver Post reports that entrepreneur Molly Graham is self-funding a new “21st-century” newsstand, called the NewsCube, to open in... More

We Need a “FailFaire” for Journalism Startups

Most experiments fail, but we can learn from mistakes.

By Lauren Kirchner   Aug 23, 2010 at 12:38 PM

Last week we read in The New York Times about a recurring failure-themed party called “FailFaire.” The gathering is meant... More

German Paper Tries Augmented Reality for Print

And we aren’t sure why

By Lauren Kirchner   Aug 20, 2010 at 11:33 AM

A post on Techcrunch Europe yesterday alerted us to an experiment by the German daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung to animate their... More

Q & A: David Plotz and Chris Wilson on Slate Labs, Part Two

“There’s no programming function that causes your computer to catch on fire.”

By Lauren Kirchner   Aug 19, 2010 at 12:05 PM

Last week, Slate launched Slate Labs, a collection of their “experiments in multimedia journalism.” Curated by programmer-journalists Chris Wilson and... More

Q & A: David Plotz and Chris Wilson on Slate Labs

“When you build the data yourself, you can be fairly certain no one else is going to have the story.”

By Lauren Kirchner   Aug 18, 2010 at 12:28 PM

Last week, Slate launched Slate Labs, a collection of their “experiments in multimedia journalism.” Curated by programmer-journalists Chris Wilson and... More

News Corp.’s Digital Gamble

Predictions for Murdoch’s tablet-only newspaper

By Lauren Kirchner   Aug 17, 2010 at 08:00 AM

Last week, Rupert Murdoch announced his latest scheme to develop a new national daily newspaper, to be distributed through subscription... More

Love Letters to Punctuation Marks

By Lauren Kirchner   Aug 16, 2010 at 11:52 AM

Some people really get excited by punctuation, whether it’s an apostrophe, commas, ellipses…or exclamation points! Inspired by author Ben Greenman’s... More

Forbes.com Gets a New Slant

Lewis Dvorkin’s bloggy overhaul of the Internet continues

By Lauren Kirchner   Aug 6, 2010 at 10:49 AM

On Thursday, Forbes.com launched a new blog page utilizing the platform first developed by the blog network True/Slant, which it... More

Harman’s Hopes for Newsweek

By Lauren Kirchner   Aug 4, 2010 at 11:53 AM

Newsweek has posted a video of their new owner Sidney Harman’s speech to the staff on Monday. The complete video... More

Dear Sidney Harman…

The pros give advice for the future of Newsweek

By Lauren Kirchner   Aug 3, 2010 at 10:52 AM

On Monday, The Washington Post Company announced that it had sold Newsweek to ninety-two-year-old stereo mogul Sidney Harman. Although Mike... More

NYT Subscriber Survey Hints at Paywall Strategy

Encouraging both print and online subscriptions

By Lauren Kirchner   Aug 2, 2010 at 03:10 PM

Ever since The New York Times announced in January that it would install a paywall by early 2011, speculation about... More

Bringing a Big Story Home at The Omaha World-Herald

Local reporting in the age of wire copy

By Lauren Kirchner   Jul 29, 2010 at 04:09 PM

Most regional papers have relied on wire copy to tell the story of the 92,000 classified military documents released by... More