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1. The News Frontier

   Americans Only Kind of Trust the Internet

   July 28, 2010 02:12 PM

   The Center for the Digital Future at USC’s Annenberg School released their 2010 report on Friday, “Surveying the Digital Future,” and its findings reveal some interesting and contradictory feelings that Americans have about online content and the Internet... Continue reading

2. The News Frontier

   Visualizing Data, Telling a Story

   July 27, 2010 05:08 PM

   Of the three news outlets that broke the WikiLeaks story on Sunday, The Guardian, on its Web site, incorporated the most interactive and visual elements to help put the mass of data into context for its readers. The Guardian team,... Continue reading

3. The News Frontier

   Gaining Readers’ Confidence In the WikiLeaks Dump

   July 26, 2010 03:03 PM

   My previous post addressed the challenges that The Guardian, The New York Times, and Der Spiegel must have faced in organizing the WikiLeaks data and presenting it in a way that would have the most impact. Perhaps a... Continue reading

4. Campaign Desk

   How Three News Outlets Handled the WikiLeaks Dump

   July 26, 2010 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 its files to The New York Times, The Guardian, and Der Spiegel, these news outlets had several weeks to decide... Continue reading

5. The News Frontier

   British Tabloid Strikes Gossip Gold Online

   July 26, 2010 11:21 AM

   In a time when many American news organizations are trying to consolidate their print and Web operations, The Daily Mail in the UK seems to be finding success in keeping them separate. As The Guardian’s Peter Preston <a href=http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/jul/18/peter-preston-mail-online-paywall... Continue reading

6. The News Frontier

   Q & A: ABC News’s Paul Slavin

   July 23, 2010 10:55 AM

   Earlier this week, ABC News released a new iPad app: a reader for the Web site’s content. The app is designed to resemble a three-dimensional sphere that can be manipulated by spinning or shaking the iPad. Each still picture on... Continue reading

7. The News Frontier

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

   July 21, 2010 04:13 PM

   PaidContent hosted a conference in New York on Tuesday entitled “paidContent Mobile: Leveraging the Smartphone Boom.” Software developers, media honchos, and tech investors spent the day musing over how best to distribute, market and profit from mobile content.... Continue reading

8. The News Frontier

   Knight-Batten Innovation Award Winners Announced

   July 19, 2010 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 to the Sunlight Foundation, for their project Sunlight Live, an “innovative blending of data, streaming video,... Continue reading

9. The Kicker

   New Magazines and Books to Launch on iPad

   July 16, 2010 04:24 PM

   Although I am loath to give Richard Branson any more publicity than he already gets, I was intrigued to read that Virgin is launching a new consumer magazine called Maverick, to be available exclusively for iPad and iPhone,... Continue reading

10. The News Frontier

    The Sun Chronicle Puts its Comments Behind a Paywall

    July 16, 2010 10:40 AM

    Thanks to this Guardian blog for identifying a new twist in the development of online news paywalls. The Sun Chronicle, a paper in Massachusetts with a circulation of about 15,000, has installed a paywall in a... Continue reading

11. The News Frontier

    Don’t Get Your Printing Advice From a Printer Manufacturer

    July 15, 2010 11:33 AM

    A blogger on ZDNet wrote last week about changes in inkjet printing technology that could make offset printing obsolete. The piece suggested that small-circulation publications might soon be able to print in-house, rather than sending galleys out to... Continue reading

12. The News Frontier

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

    July 14, 2010 02:42 PM

    The Wall Street Journal is getting a bit of press about its partnership with Foursquare. For the uninitiated, Foursquare is a location-based social media network, a cross between Twitter and a video game. Users can “check in” to... Continue reading

13. The News Frontier

    On Hyperlocals, Hyper-hiring, and Hype

    July 13, 2010 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 goals raised some eyebrows at CJR. The company made news when it raised... Continue reading

14. The News Frontier

    This Paywall is Sorry for Your Loss

    July 12, 2010 03:22 PM

    Poynter’s Bill Mitchell reports on the first online news site to go public with “Press+,” the metered paywall system by Journalism Online. On Monday, the Pennsylvania news site LancasterOnline “began informing people who live... Continue reading

15. The Kicker

    E-readers: Quick with Apps, Slow for Brains

    July 9, 2010 05:15 PM

    A new study by Web usability researcher Jakob Nielsen, meant to compare reading comprehension across various media has found that iPads and Kindles are slowing readers down. For the study, twenty-four subjects read a short story by Ernest... Continue reading

16. The News Frontier

    A New Direction for Patch?

    July 9, 2010 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. At last count, Patch has about eighty sites throughout California, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey and New... Continue reading

17. The News Frontier

    Can This Headline Save the News?

    July 8, 2010 10:56 AM

    Headlines have always tended to the hysterical, and ledes have always had to be snappy. In the online era, with so much content clogging the airwaves, an attention-grabbing start to a news article is more crucial than ever. But sometimes... Continue reading

18. Guide to Online News Startups

    Patch

    March 1, 2012 10:37 AM

    NEW YORK, NEW YORK —In February 2009, South Orange, Maplewood, and Milburn-Short Hills, three small but relatively affluent New Jersey communities, became the first towns... Continue reading

19. Guide to Online News Startups

    Patch (Wisconsin)

    February 24, 2012 12:59 PM

    The Patch network in Wisconsin consists of sixteen sites, all of which are concentrated around Milwaukee with the exception of Hudson Patch, which... Continue reading

20. Guide to Online News Startups

    Patch (Pennsylvania)

    February 24, 2012 12:33 PM

    In 2010, Patch launched twelve community sites in Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley, a densely populated area on the eastern edge of the state formerly propped up... Continue reading

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