The News Frontier

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

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

Launch Pad: Remapping Debate

One down, we hope many more to go

By Craig Gurian   Oct 14, 2010 at 12:35 PM

CJR's "Launch Pad" feature invites new media publishers to blog about their experiences on the news frontier. Craig Gurian's previous... 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

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

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

Launch Pad: Remapping Debate

Less than one week to go

By Craig Gurian   Oct 6, 2010 at 11:41 AM

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

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

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