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

Online Video: Immediate, Powerful, Elemental

Chris Anderson’s latest TED talk

By Lauren Kirchner   Oct 1, 2010 at 10:10 AM

TED Conference curator Chris Anderson gave his own TED talk in July, just released in September, entitled “How web video... More

Watch the Washington Ideas Forum Online

By Lauren Kirchner   Sep 30, 2010 at 12:21 PM

The Atlantic, together with The Aspen Institute, is hosting the Washington Ideas Forum today and tomorrow, billed as a series... More

Tweeting a Wildfire

Social media in an emergency, and what it means for the press

By Lauren Kirchner   Sep 30, 2010 at 06:00 AM

Around ten in the morning this past Labor Day, the sky above Boulder, Colorado turned a dusty orange. A fire... More

ONA Award Finalists: Digitech Innovators

By Lauren Kirchner   Sep 29, 2010 at 03:53 PM

The finalists for the 2010 Online Journalism Awards given by the Online News Association have just been announced, and we... More

Money, Volunteers, Money, Patch, and Money

(What community news site owners worry about)

By Lauren Kirchner   Sep 28, 2010 at 08:00 AM

Last week, some of the busiest people in journalism pried themselves away from their laptops, stood up from their kitchen... More

Q&A: Mike Liebhold, Principal Technologist at The Institute For the Future

On augmented reality glasses and the future of location-based publishing

By Lauren Kirchner   Sep 24, 2010 at 11:16 AM

The Institute for the Future is a forty-two year old nonprofit research group based in Palo Alto, California, dedicated to... More

NJSpotlight.com, Trenton’s State House Startup

The newcomer to press row fills a policy niche

By Lauren Kirchner   Sep 22, 2010 at 05:15 PM

When reporters pass each other in the echoey maze-like tunnels below the legislative hearing rooms of the New Jersey State... More

Steal This Google Map!

By Lauren Kirchner   Sep 22, 2010 at 11:42 AM

My colleague Joel Meares has written a lot lately about various news sites’ makeovers for the midterm election season, from... More

Whatever Happened to NewsTilt?

A co-founder of the short-lived start-up reflects on failure

By Lauren Kirchner   Sep 20, 2010 at 09:59 AM

In August, I wrote about FailFaire, a recurring event in the nonprofit industry that revisited projectsa gone wrong in order... More

Checking In on Kachingle

Why haven’t any big news sites signed up?

By Lauren Kirchner   Sep 17, 2010 at 08:30 AM

Early in 2009, the micropayment service Kachingle received a lot of attention when a piece in Editor and Publisher suggested... More

The Times’s Latest Interactive on the WTC

By Lauren Kirchner   Sep 10, 2010 at 12:07 PM

If you visited the New York Times home page earlier this morning, you couldn’t miss the interactive feature “Reviving Ground... More

ProPublica Welcomes All Nerds

By Lauren Kirchner   Sep 9, 2010 at 12:40 PM

ProPublica has just launched what they call their “Nerd Blog” to highlight their latest developments in news applications. (“So what... More

You Can’t Do That Online

By Lauren Kirchner   Sep 9, 2010 at 10:53 AM

A piece in The New York Times Home & Garden section got a little bit meta on Wednesday. Anne Raver... More

Federal Judge Says Website Not Liable For Comments

By Lauren Kirchner   Sep 3, 2010 at 01:23 PM

From Online Media Daily, a small item about a libel case dismissed by a Southern District court U.S. District Court... More

Q & A: Longshot co-founder Alexis Madrigal

“An event that is also a magazine…a magazine made out of Internet.”

By Lauren Kirchner   Sep 3, 2010 at 08:00 AM

This past May, a group of California writers and designers hunkered down one weekend in the Mother Jones office for... More

“Data Is the New Soil”

David McCandless’ TED talk on visualizing data

By Lauren Kirchner   Sep 2, 2010 at 08:00 AM

Journalist and designer David McCandless gave an inspiring TED talk last month, just posted online last week. In it, he... More

NYT Internal Memo Addresses Anonymous Sourcing

By Lauren Kirchner   Sep 1, 2010 at 02:18 PM

A memo went out to New York Times staffers on Wednesday, reminding them of the hazards of anonymous sourcing. The... More

Q & A: Brian Herbert, Developer for Ushahidi

Free crowdmapping software every news website can use right now

By Lauren Kirchner   Aug 31, 2010 at 02:36 PM

Ushahidi, a word that means “testimony” in Swahili, is the name of a group of computer programmers and human rights... More

Reporter Gives Money to Panhandlers, Watches What They Spend

By Lauren Kirchner   Aug 30, 2010 at 02:43 PM

Jim Rankin, a reporter for The Toronto Star, found an interesting way to profile some of his city’s neediest citizens.... More