The News Frontier
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
Can Yahoo Woo San Francisco?
Search giant readies a hyperlocal network
By Lauren Kirchner Aug 27, 2010 at 04:30 PM
Following rival AOL’s lead, Yahoo has started a hyperlocal rollout. First stop: San Francisco. Yahoo purchased online publisher (content farm)... More
“Radical” Restructuring, Layoffs at USA Today
By Lauren Kirchner Aug 27, 2010 at 11:54 AM
USA Today, the second-largest newspaper in the country after The Wall Street Journal, is undergoing a company-wide shift in focus... More
The Fastest-Growing Media Companies in America
Community news in Texas, private mags for colleges
By Lauren Kirchner Aug 26, 2010 at 03:49 PM
Inc. magazine has released its annual list of the 5000 fastest-growing private companies in the country. Sadly, but perhaps not... More
Knight Funds Tech Initiatives for Community-Building
By Lauren Kirchner Aug 25, 2010 at 04:40 PM
The Knight Foundation’s Technology for Engagement Initiative, which will fund organizations using technology in the most creative and viable ways,... More
TBD Invites Readers to Map Metro Problems
By Lauren Kirchner Aug 25, 2010 at 12:39 PM
With the new service Crowdmap, TBD is collecting information from readers about Washington D.C.’s Metro system. Commuters write in about... More
Patch’s Problematic Redesign
Blurring the lines between edited and user-generated content
By Lauren Kirchner Aug 24, 2010 at 04:29 PM
AOL’s Patch Media launched its 100th hyperlocal news site last week in Morristown, New Jersey, and is apparently planning on... More
We Need a “FailFaire” for Journalism Startups
Most experiments fail, but we can learn from mistakes.
By Lauren Kirchner Aug 23, 2010 at 12:38 PM
Last week we read in The New York Times about a recurring failure-themed party called “FailFaire.” The gathering is meant... More
German Paper Tries Augmented Reality for Print
And we aren’t sure why
By Lauren Kirchner Aug 20, 2010 at 11:33 AM
A post on Techcrunch Europe yesterday alerted us to an experiment by the German daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung to animate their... More
Q & A: David Plotz and Chris Wilson on Slate Labs, Part Two
“There’s no programming function that causes your computer to catch on fire.”
By Lauren Kirchner Aug 19, 2010 at 12:05 PM
Last week, Slate launched Slate Labs, a collection of their “experiments in multimedia journalism.” Curated by programmer-journalists Chris Wilson and... More
Q & A: David Plotz and Chris Wilson on Slate Labs
“When you build the data yourself, you can be fairly certain no one else is going to have the story.”
By Lauren Kirchner Aug 18, 2010 at 12:28 PM
Last week, Slate launched Slate Labs, a collection of their “experiments in multimedia journalism.” Curated by programmer-journalists Chris Wilson and... More
News Corp.’s Digital Gamble
Predictions for Murdoch’s tablet-only newspaper
By Lauren Kirchner Aug 17, 2010 at 08:00 AM
Last week, Rupert Murdoch announced his latest scheme to develop a new national daily newspaper, to be distributed through subscription... More
Forbes.com Gets a New Slant
Lewis Dvorkin’s bloggy overhaul of the Internet continues
By Lauren Kirchner Aug 6, 2010 at 10:49 AM
On Thursday, Forbes.com launched a new blog page utilizing the platform first developed by the blog network True/Slant, which it... More
Harman’s Hopes for Newsweek
By Lauren Kirchner Aug 4, 2010 at 11:53 AM
Newsweek has posted a video of their new owner Sidney Harman’s speech to the staff on Monday. The complete video... More
Blazing Trails, Changing Paths
Lessons from the first year in the life of Investigate West
By Curtis Brainard Aug 3, 2010 at 12:48 PM
When Investigate West, an investigative journalism site, sprung up last summer after the virtual collapse of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, we... More
‘See you on the other side’ - Meet Jessica Lum, a terminally ill 25-year-old who chose to spend what little time she had practicing journalism
#Realtalk: This is the best moment to be in journalism - The old stuff isn’t coming back, but that’s okay
Streams of consciousness - Millennials expect a steady diet of quick-hit, social-media-mediated bits and bytes. What does that mean for journalism?
Sticking with the truth - How ‘balanced’ coverage helped sustain the bogus claim that childhood vaccines can cause autism
An ink-stained stretch - Can Aaron Kushner save the Orange County Register—and the newspaper industry?
This is the best moment to be in journalism (25)
The WSJ editorial page hits rock bottom (19)
The completist guide to Star Trek
Matt Yglesias watched every Star Trek movie and every episode of every TV show in the franchise
The uncomfortable questions not raised by Benghazi
The press and Congress are asking the wrong questions
Rob Ford in ‘crack cocaine’ video scandal
A video that appears to show Toronto’s mayor smoking crack is being shopped around by a group of Somali men involved in the drug trade
Why the underwear-bomber leak infuriated the Obama administration
The threat of even grander leaks
CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
Uptown Messenger – Hyperlocal news for a neighborhood in New Orleans
Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
