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

Karzai’s About-Face in the NYT

By Lauren Kirchner   Jul 29, 2010 at 12:26 PM

On Tuesday, a New York Times front page story, “Leaks Add to Pressure on White House Over Strategy,” followed up... More

What We Need is a “Slow News Movement”

By Lauren Kirchner   Jul 28, 2010 at 05:22 PM

Walter Shapiro over at Politics Daily considers how quickly the Shirley Sherrod hackjob spread, viruslike, from Breitbart to Fox News... More

Americans Only Kind of Trust the Internet

And other findings from an Annenberg study

By Lauren Kirchner   Jul 28, 2010 at 02:12 PM

The Center for the Digital Future at USC’s Annenberg School released their 2010 report on Friday, “Surveying the Digital Future,”... More

Visualizing Data, Telling a Story

Behind the scenes of The Guardian’s interactive WikiLeaks coverage

By Lauren Kirchner   Jul 27, 2010 at 05:08 PM

Of the three news outlets that broke the WikiLeaks story on Sunday, The Guardian, on its Web site, incorporated the... More

Gaining Readers’ Confidence In the WikiLeaks Dump

Part II: Verification

By Lauren Kirchner   Jul 26, 2010 at 03:03 PM

My previous post addressed the challenges that The Guardian, The New York Times, and Der Spiegel must have faced in... More

How Three News Outlets Handled the WikiLeaks Dump

Part I: online presentation

By Lauren Kirchner   Jul 26, 2010 at 01:43 PM

It’s hard to overstate the colossal challenge of digesting, verifying, and then presenting 92,000 classified documents. When WikiLeaks handed over... More

British Tabloid Strikes Gossip Gold Online

An argument for isolating print and Web newsrooms

By Lauren Kirchner   Jul 26, 2010 at 11:21 AM

In a time when many American news organizations are trying to consolidate their print and Web operations, The Daily Mail... More

Q & A: ABC News’s Paul Slavin

The ABC News Digital senior vice-president talks about his new, spherical iPad app

By Lauren Kirchner   Jul 23, 2010 at 10:55 AM

Earlier this week, ABC News released a new iPad app: a reader for the Web site’s content. The app is... More

“Freemiums” and “Ambience”: the Future of Mobile Content?

A paidContent conference recap

By Lauren Kirchner   Jul 21, 2010 at 04:13 PM

PaidContent hosted a conference in New York on Tuesday entitled “paidContent Mobile: Leveraging the Smartphone Boom.” Software developers, media honchos,... More

Knight-Batten Innovation Award Winners Announced

By Lauren Kirchner   Jul 19, 2010 at 04:52 PM

The Knight-Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism were announced on the J-Lab site on Monday. The $10,000 grand prize goes... More

New Magazines and Books to Launch on iPad

By Lauren Kirchner   Jul 16, 2010 at 04:24 PM

Although I am loath to give Richard Branson any more publicity than he already gets, I was intrigued to read... More

The Sun Chronicle Puts its Comments Behind a Paywall

But it’s not about the money

By Lauren Kirchner   Jul 16, 2010 at 10:40 AM

Thanks to this Guardian blog for identifying a new twist in the development of online news paywalls. The Sun Chronicle,... More

Don’t Get Your Printing Advice From a Printer Manufacturer

And other tips for small-run publications

By Lauren Kirchner   Jul 15, 2010 at 11:33 AM

A blogger on ZDNet wrote last week about changes in inkjet printing technology that could make offset printing obsolete. The... More

What it’s Like to Be The Wall Street Journal’s Friend

Taking the Journal’s Foursquare layer for a test ride

By Lauren Kirchner   Jul 14, 2010 at 02:42 PM

The Wall Street Journal is getting a bit of press about its partnership with Foursquare. For the uninitiated, Foursquare is... More

On Hyperlocals, Hyper-hiring, and Hype

MainStreetConnect has big plans for the future

By Lauren Kirchner   Jul 13, 2010 at 12:05 PM

Carll Tucker, founder of hyperlocal news organization MainStreetConnect, was profiled on Wednesday on Journalism.co.uk, and his claims about the company’s... More

This Paywall is Sorry for Your Loss

By Lauren Kirchner   Jul 12, 2010 at 03:22 PM

Poynter’s Bill Mitchell reports on the first online news site to go public with “Press+,” the metered paywall system by... More

E-readers: Quick with Apps, Slow for Brains

By Lauren Kirchner   Jul 9, 2010 at 05:15 PM

A new study by Web usability researcher Jakob Nielsen, meant to compare reading comprehension across various media has found that... More

A New Direction for Patch?

By Lauren Kirchner   Jul 9, 2010 at 10:55 AM

Patch.com, AOL’s golden child, is still expanding quickly, working hard to spend its parent company’s 50 million investment this year.... More

Can This Headline Save the News?

The perils of the bait-and-switch headline

By Lauren Kirchner   Jul 8, 2010 at 10:56 AM

Headlines have always tended to the hysterical, and ledes have always had to be snappy. In the online era, with... More