U.S. Corporate Interest and the Chamber of Secrets

By Lauren Kirchner   Oct 22, 2010 at 03:45 PM

The New York Times has a front page story today about some sizable corporate donations to the U.S. Chamber of... More

What to Do When Commenters Attack?

By Lauren Kirchner   Oct 22, 2010 at 02:03 PM

On the occasion of the Portland Press Herald debacle (about which more here), Poynter’s Damon Kiesow has a great roundup... More

How to Use ProPublica’s “Dollars for Docs” Database

Tips for reporters and editors

By Lauren Kirchner   Oct 22, 2010 at 01:50 PM

Investigative innovator ProPublica launched a new project this week, a national database of doctors and the money they have received... More

AP’s Sequera Wins Prize for Chile Exclusives

By Lauren Kirchner   Oct 21, 2010 at 01:48 PM

Among the thousand-plus journalists who descended on Chile’s “Camp Hope” for the miners’ rescue were thirty-three journalists from the Associated... More

Community News: “Where’s the Money?”

Medill’s series on business models for news sites

By Lauren Kirchner   Oct 20, 2010 at 03:16 PM

Students at Northwestern University’s Medill School have been following up on last month’s Block by Block Community News Summit with... More

The Guardian Makes Budget Cuts Fun

By Lauren Kirchner   Oct 20, 2010 at 09:45 AM

Well, not really. But a new online tool from The Guardian makes it fun to learn just how hard it... More

The Strange Case of Kachingle v. The NYT

In which the Times orders the micropayment site to cease and desist

By Lauren Kirchner   Oct 19, 2010 at 03:34 PM

Last month I wrote a piece about Kachingle, a micropayment service for news websites that launched last year; although some... More

Q & A: Paul Bradshaw, Founder of Help Me Investigate

Collaborative investigations at the local level

By Lauren Kirchner   Oct 18, 2010 at 01:12 PM

Paul Bradshaw is an investigative journalist and author based in Birmingham, U.K., who teaches online journalism at Birmingham City University... More

Celebs Are Loud, But Hard News Pays

By Lauren Kirchner   Oct 18, 2010 at 12:00 PM

Perfect Market, a marketing firm for publishers, launched its Vault Index today, revealing the most “valuable” topics in online news... More

This Headline May Be A Work of Art

A review of “The Last Newspaper” exhibit at The New Museum

By Lauren Kirchner   Oct 15, 2010 at 08:36 AM

The New Museum’s latest exhibit “The Last Newspaper” is a misnomer, a slightly disjointed jumble of artworks that appropriate newsprint... More

The AP Goes “Platform-Neutral”

By Lauren Kirchner   Oct 14, 2010 at 03:20 PM

A memo went out today from Tom Kent, deputy managing editor for standards and production at the Associated Press, to... More

Instapaper’s Fix for Your Unhealthy Media Diet

By Lauren Kirchner   Oct 13, 2010 at 01:40 PM

Instapaper is an e-reading app that’s gotten a lot of press lately for the way it strips online content of... More

Data Visualization for Beginners

Notes from Geoff McGhee’s Knight Fellowship report

By Lauren Kirchner   Oct 12, 2010 at 01:57 PM

Thanks to Mark Coddington and his weekly roundup on Nieman Lab for linking to this beautiful video series, “Journalism in... More

A Cringe-worthy Correction

By Lauren Kirchner   Oct 12, 2010 at 11:17 AM

A blog post by Amanda Hess on TBD the other day included a very unfortunate typo on a story about... More

Google’s Free Election Tools

More embeddable maps and forums for news sites this November

By Lauren Kirchner   Oct 11, 2010 at 02:59 PM

In a previous post I highlighted Google’s map of political poll results and invited news sites everywhere to get it... More

Groupon’s Style Guide to Humor Writing

By Lauren Kirchner   Oct 8, 2010 at 02:19 PM

Groupon is a deal-of-the-day subscription service that’s been getting attention for its power to sell anything from yoga classes to... More

On Face Time and Free Labor

How two local news sites train and retain volunteer contributors

By Lauren Kirchner   Oct 8, 2010 at 02:02 PM

As I’ve written in previous posts about last month’s Block by Block Community News Summit, many local news publishers were... More

A “Virtual Neighborhood Watch”

The L.A.Times’s new interactive crime map

By Lauren Kirchner   Oct 5, 2010 at 02:51 PM

One of the more lively debates at last month’s Block by Block Community News Summit concerned publications’ treatment of crime... More

Sweat Equity and Community Engagement

Lessons from J-Lab’s report on local news startups

By Lauren Kirchner   Oct 4, 2010 at 12:45 PM

J-Lab, the Institute for Interactive Journalism at American University, has given seed funding to 55 community news startups (with support... More

Make Like Boston.com and Split

A roundup of opinion on the Globe’s announcement

By Lauren Kirchner   Oct 1, 2010 at 03:08 PM

The Boston Globe announced on Thursday that it will split its web content into two separate entities: Boston.com will remain... More