Zagat Remains a Profitable Brand

Does it matter that it hasn’t won the web?

By Lauren Kirchner   Nov 16, 2010 at 02:50 PM

The New York Times ran a story over the weekend called “Zagat Survey Aims to Regain Its Online Balance,” about... More

Newsweek.com Editors Are Feeling Burned

As they take to Tumblr to plead for their jobs

By Lauren Kirchner   Nov 15, 2010 at 02:20 PM

When Newsweek and The Daily Beast announced on Friday that they were merging the two brands and installing Tina Brown... More

NewsBeast Notes

Wherein two media brands merge, and the Internet says hmmm

By Lauren Kirchner   Nov 12, 2010 at 04:00 PM

The Tweets: @TheTinaBeast We’re getting hitched! Daily Beast, Newsweek To Wed http://thebea.st/dCdnfB @Newsweek It's official, we're merging with @TheDailyBeast http://bit.ly/9PGYz7... More

Inside the Haiti Earthquake: a Simulation

Learn about the decisions made by survivors, aid workers, and journalists in a crisis

By Lauren Kirchner   Nov 11, 2010 at 03:50 PM

After I wrote about the Toronto Star’s excellent multimedia coverage of the Haiti earthquake and its aftermath, I was alerted... More

IWMF Grant for Women in Digital Media

By Lauren Kirchner   Nov 11, 2010 at 01:30 PM

The International Women’s Media Foundation is awarding three grants of $20,000 each to female journalists “who aspire to be new... More

Darts and Laurels

Reporters at two weeklies keep the memories of unknown murder victims alive

By Lauren Kirchner   Nov 11, 2010 at 08:00 AM

In 2008, L.A. Weekly reporter Christine Pelisek learned that the Los Angeles Police Department had recently dedicated a secret task... More

Amid Industry Turmoil, “The New Journalism Ecosystem” Thrives

i-Lab’s new database of investigative nonprofits

By Lauren Kirchner   Nov 10, 2010 at 05:35 PM

Investigative Reporting Workshop founder Charles Lewis offers a few sobering—though unfortunately unsurprising—PEJ statistics in the introduction to his latest report... More

Some Stories are “Un-Webbable”

The Washington Post’s Mark Luckie on multimedia moderation

By Lauren Kirchner   Nov 10, 2010 at 01:00 PM

The Hearst Foundation and Columbia University’s J-School Digital Media Program hosted its annual panel on Tuesday night, entitled “The Changing... More

Virtual Haiti

The Toronto Star’s 360-degree photography shows the earthquake’s aftermath

By Lauren Kirchner   Nov 9, 2010 at 03:10 PM

The earthquake that rocked Haiti in January leveled its capital, killed at least 230,000 people, and made another million homeless.... More

“Help, I Don’t Understand”

By Lauren Kirchner   Nov 9, 2010 at 12:25 PM

Bob Woodward plays the straight man himself to Ben Bradlee’s zany future-thinking exec in this new Washington Post video for... More

Local Ad Networks Bring Home the Bacon

Community sites team up to hire sales staff and share ad revenue

By Lauren Kirchner   Nov 8, 2010 at 11:45 AM

When Washington, D.C. local news site TBD.com launched in August, it got a fair amount of attention for the blog... More

The News That Wasn’t

By Lauren Kirchner   Nov 8, 2010 at 10:50 AM

Fans of the late William Safire know that before he was a the New York Times Magazine “On Language” columnist,... More

Olbermann Isn’t Alone

By Lauren Kirchner   Nov 5, 2010 at 03:30 PM

Countdown host Keith Olbermann has just been indefinitely suspended for donating money to three Democratic campaigns, and thereby violating MSNBC... More

Yahoo’s Ask America Infographic

Pretty, but pretty dumb

By Lauren Kirchner   Nov 5, 2010 at 01:45 PM

In anticipation of the midterm elections, Yahoo created an interactive project called Ask America, part of which is the “Issues... More

BBC Journalists’ Strike is On

By Lauren Kirchner   Nov 5, 2010 at 11:55 AM

Our colleagues across the pond have initiated a two-day strike over pension benefits, the AP reports. Some radio and TV... More

Hey Bernanke, Say It Again…in English

By Lauren Kirchner   Nov 4, 2010 at 04:00 PM

When Slate’s Jeremy Singer-Vine debuted the “Plain English” tool on Slate Labs, I was curious to see how people would... More

Interactivity on a Budget

How several smaller newsrooms dealt with election data

By Lauren Kirchner   Nov 4, 2010 at 11:55 AM

Earlier this week I did a quick rundown of some eye-catching interactive graphics that newsrooms at papers like The New... More

Election Day Tools, Maps, and Graphics

A rundown of the best interactive projects online

By Lauren Kirchner   Nov 2, 2010 at 02:15 PM

Election Day is an occasion for high drama on the Internet: data coming in all day and night, polls, pundits,... More

Don’t Forget the Facts About NPR Funding

Federal funding accounts for less than readers may realize

By Lauren Kirchner   Oct 28, 2010 at 11:42 AM

Juan William’s abrupt firing from NPR and hiring by Fox News seems to have kicked up an old debate over... More

Visualizing the Iraq War Logs

How The New York Times and The Guardian did it

By Lauren Kirchner   Oct 27, 2010 at 12:55 PM

When WikiLeaks gave seven news organizations access to 400,000 previously classified military documents pertaining to the Iraq war, one of... More