The News Frontier

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

Launch Pad: Remapping Debate

Trying to keep eyes on the prize

By Craig Gurian   Sep 28, 2010 at 07:00 AM

CJR’s new “Launch Pad” feature invites new media publishers to blog about their experiences on the news frontier. All of... 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

Old Dog With New Tricks

PBS NewsHour launches new politics site

By Joel Meares   Sep 21, 2010 at 12:38 PM

There’s been a lot of activity over at PBS NewsHour this past year. First came the jazzy makeover that saw... More

Launch Pad Archive

An archive of CJR’s “Launch Pad” columns

By The Editors   Sep 21, 2010 at 11:38 AM

Bethlehem Shoals, The Classical 12/16/11: Two weeks after launch, new worries take hold. I have a confession to make: up... More

Launch Pad: Remapping Debate

Three weeks until the site goes live

By Craig Gurian   Sep 21, 2010 at 09:22 AM

CJR’s new “Launch Pad” feature invites new media publishers to blog about their experiences on the news frontier. All of... More

Tiles, the Issues Wheel, and the Ask America Van

Yahoo News’s hyper-interactive new midterm election site

By Joel Meares   Sep 20, 2010 at 03:12 PM

Yahoo News’s recently launched “Ask America” site has an intro that comes at you like a Pixar rendering of Obama’s... 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

Wise Up

A tale of two Twitters

By Craig Silverman   Sep 3, 2010 at 11:18 AM

Mike Wise wasn’t. Earlier this week, the Washington Post sports columnist decided to tweet a fabricated claim that Pittsburgh Steelers... 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