The News Frontier

“Information Wants to Be Free”; The NYT Does Not

Paywall reactions and misunderstandings

By Lauren Kirchner   Mar 17, 2011 at 05:40 PM

The New York Times has announced that its metered paywall will go into effect on March 28, costing readers $15... More

The Newspaper Guild Calls for HuffPo Boycott

By Lauren Kirchner   Mar 17, 2011 at 01:35 PM

The Newspaper Guild of America, which represents 26,000 media workers across the country, has called for a strike of unpaid... More

NYT Announces Paywall Details, In Effect March 28

By Lauren Kirchner   Mar 17, 2011 at 11:50 AM

After months of speculation and anticipation from all sides of the industry, The New York Times revealed Thursday morning the... More

The Internet’s Least Helpful Webpages

How content farms do Japan

By Lauren Kirchner   Mar 16, 2011 at 04:55 PM

Taking to Google with your questions about the fast-breaking situation in Japan can lead down some pretty strange paths—paths to... More

Should News Paywalls Demand Less in Poorer Countries?

The case for variable pricing

By Justin D. Martin   Mar 16, 2011 at 12:40 PM

CAIRO—Consumers have made peace with the fact that some things cost more in certain places. A cup of black coffee... More

“The News Industry Is No Longer In Control Of Its Destiny”

And other findings of the Pew State of the Media Report

By Lauren Kirchner   Mar 14, 2011 at 01:07 AM

Today the Pew Research Center for Excellence in Journalism released its annual “State of the Media” report, and it’s a... More

Imagining a Digital Public Library of America

A Q&A with Berkman Center fellow Maura Marx

By Lauren Kirchner   Mar 11, 2011 at 11:20 AM

For at least a decade, librarians, technologists, and academics have been discussing an idea that seems as inevitable as it... More

Improving News, Improving Community

“Write for Arkansas” funds reporters in small newsrooms for two years

By Lauren Kirchner   Mar 9, 2011 at 04:25 PM

On the future-of-news beat, it’s easy to see which projects and innovations get the most attention. From automation to augmented-reality,... More

Institutional Grants On the Rise; Crowdfunding, Not So Much

And other findings from a new Knight Foundation survey

By Lauren Kirchner   Mar 7, 2011 at 04:50 PM

Here at CJR, The News Frontier Database is our ongoing project to track and gather online news startups throughout the... More

The New Newsweek, She Has Arrived

By Lauren Kirchner   Mar 7, 2011 at 12:45 PM

The newly redesigned Newsweek hits the newsstands today, and The Society of Publication Designers has a first look at several... More

How Do You Define “Quality” Content?

A discussion at paidContent 2011

By Lauren Kirchner   Mar 4, 2011 at 04:00 PM

Perhaps it was the early hour—maybe the panelists hadn’t had their morning coffee yet—but the mood seemed subdued at the... More

“Hyperlocal” is So 2010

By Lauren Kirchner   Mar 4, 2011 at 01:20 PM

When TBD announced massive layoffs last week, critics took the opportunity to declare that “hyperlocal” journalism would never pay. Meanwhile,... More

Then Why Aren’t Rachel Maddow’s Guests Going On Strike?

Arianna Huffington and Tim Armstrong respond to critics

By Lauren Kirchner   Mar 4, 2011 at 08:40 AM

Arianna Huffington and Tim Armstrong are still celebrating the merger deal between HuffPo and AOL—a deal that they hinted will... More

Churnalism Exposed

A new website identifies press release copy in the news

By Martin Moore   Mar 3, 2011 at 02:05 PM

The Media Standards Trust (U.K.) has just launched a website—churnalism.com—that lets people compare press releases with published news articles in... More

Q & A: Jim Brady on the Death of TBD

“It was never about us making an insane amount of money by doing hyperlocal.”

By Lauren Kirchner   Feb 25, 2011 at 01:50 PM

This week, the staff of TBD, Allbritton’s local website in Washington, D.C., learned that the site would undergo massive layoffs,... More