The News Frontier

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

Dear Sidney Harman…

The pros give advice for the future of Newsweek

By Lauren Kirchner   Aug 3, 2010 at 10:52 AM

On Monday, The Washington Post Company announced that it had sold Newsweek to ninety-two-year-old stereo mogul Sidney Harman. Although Mike... More

NYT Subscriber Survey Hints at Paywall Strategy

Encouraging both print and online subscriptions

By Lauren Kirchner   Aug 2, 2010 at 03:10 PM

Ever since The New York Times announced in January that it would install a paywall by early 2011, speculation about... More

It’s All About Us

WaPo’s Story Lab experiment fizzles

By Holly Yeager   Jul 30, 2010 at 12:52 PM

It seemed like a questionable allocation of resources when The Washington Post dispatched seven reporters to local coffeehouses one day... More

Bringing a Big Story Home at The Omaha World-Herald

Local reporting in the age of wire copy

By Lauren Kirchner   Jul 29, 2010 at 04:09 PM

Most regional papers have relied on wire copy to tell the story of the 92,000 classified military documents released by... More

What We Need is a “Slow News Movement”

By Lauren Kirchner   Jul 28, 2010 at 05:22 PM

Walter Shapiro over at Politics Daily considers how quickly the Shirley Sherrod hackjob spread, viruslike, from Breitbart to Fox News... More

Americans Only Kind of Trust the Internet

And other findings from an Annenberg study

By Lauren Kirchner   Jul 28, 2010 at 02:12 PM

The Center for the Digital Future at USC’s Annenberg School released their 2010 report on Friday, “Surveying the Digital Future,”... More

Visualizing Data, Telling a Story

Behind the scenes of The Guardian’s interactive WikiLeaks coverage

By Lauren Kirchner   Jul 27, 2010 at 05:08 PM

Of the three news outlets that broke the WikiLeaks story on Sunday, The Guardian, on its Web site, incorporated the... More

Gaining Readers’ Confidence In the WikiLeaks Dump

Part II: Verification

By Lauren Kirchner   Jul 26, 2010 at 03:03 PM

My previous post addressed the challenges that The Guardian, The New York Times, and Der Spiegel must have faced in... More

How Three News Outlets Handled the WikiLeaks Dump

Part I: online presentation

By Lauren Kirchner   Jul 26, 2010 at 01:43 PM

It’s hard to overstate the colossal challenge of digesting, verifying, and then presenting 92,000 classified documents. When WikiLeaks handed over... More

British Tabloid Strikes Gossip Gold Online

An argument for isolating print and Web newsrooms

By Lauren Kirchner   Jul 26, 2010 at 11:21 AM

In a time when many American news organizations are trying to consolidate their print and Web operations, The Daily Mail... More

Q & A: ABC News’s Paul Slavin

The ABC News Digital senior vice-president talks about his new, spherical iPad app

By Lauren Kirchner   Jul 23, 2010 at 10:55 AM

Earlier this week, ABC News released a new iPad app: a reader for the Web site’s content. The app is... More

“Freemiums” and “Ambience”: the Future of Mobile Content?

A paidContent conference recap

By Lauren Kirchner   Jul 21, 2010 at 04:13 PM

PaidContent hosted a conference in New York on Tuesday entitled “paidContent Mobile: Leveraging the Smartphone Boom.” Software developers, media honchos,... More

Knight-Batten Innovation Award Winners Announced

By Lauren Kirchner   Jul 19, 2010 at 04:52 PM

The Knight-Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism were announced on the J-Lab site on Monday. The $10,000 grand prize goes... More

New Magazines and Books to Launch on iPad

By Lauren Kirchner   Jul 16, 2010 at 04:24 PM

Although I am loath to give Richard Branson any more publicity than he already gets, I was intrigued to read... More