The News Frontier

The Sun Chronicle Puts its Comments Behind a Paywall

But it’s not about the money

By Lauren Kirchner   Jul 16, 2010 at 10:40 AM

Thanks to this Guardian blog for identifying a new twist in the development of online news paywalls. The Sun Chronicle,... More

Don’t Get Your Printing Advice From a Printer Manufacturer

And other tips for small-run publications

By Lauren Kirchner   Jul 15, 2010 at 11:33 AM

A blogger on ZDNet wrote last week about changes in inkjet printing technology that could make offset printing obsolete. The... More

What it’s Like to Be The Wall Street Journal’s Friend

Taking the Journal’s Foursquare layer for a test ride

By Lauren Kirchner   Jul 14, 2010 at 02:42 PM

The Wall Street Journal is getting a bit of press about its partnership with Foursquare. For the uninitiated, Foursquare is... More

On Hyperlocals, Hyper-hiring, and Hype

MainStreetConnect has big plans for the future

By Lauren Kirchner   Jul 13, 2010 at 12:05 PM

Carll Tucker, founder of hyperlocal news organization MainStreetConnect, was profiled on Wednesday on Journalism.co.uk, and his claims about the company’s... More

This Paywall is Sorry for Your Loss

By Lauren Kirchner   Jul 12, 2010 at 03:22 PM

Poynter’s Bill Mitchell reports on the first online news site to go public with “Press+,” the metered paywall system by... More

E-readers: Quick with Apps, Slow for Brains

By Lauren Kirchner   Jul 9, 2010 at 05:15 PM

A new study by Web usability researcher Jakob Nielsen, meant to compare reading comprehension across various media has found that... More

A New Direction for Patch?

By Lauren Kirchner   Jul 9, 2010 at 10:55 AM

Patch.com, AOL’s golden child, is still expanding quickly, working hard to spend its parent company’s 50 million investment this year.... More

Can This Headline Save the News?

The perils of the bait-and-switch headline

By Lauren Kirchner   Jul 8, 2010 at 10:56 AM

Headlines have always tended to the hysterical, and ledes have always had to be snappy. In the online era, with... More

Twitter + Diplomacy = Danger: Stray Voltage!

By Alexandra Fenwick   Jun 30, 2010 at 11:30 AM

Two State Department staff members leading a delegation of Silicon Valley executives to Syria have learned that social media and... More

Look at Us!

Lessons from the response to the David Weigel flap

By Greg Marx   Jun 28, 2010 at 11:11 AM

It’s been three days since David Weigel, the reporter and blogger best known for his coverage of the conservative movement,... More

The Man Who Imagined Tablets and E-Readers

An interview with Roger Fidler of the RJI Digital Publishing Alliance

By Curtis Brainard   Jun 17, 2010 at 04:59 PM

In 1981, Roger Fidler wrote a visionary essay on the emergence of mobile reading devices like the Apple iPad and... More

2010 Knight News Challenge Winners Announced

Some clever ideas in the Sisyphean struggle to Save Journalism

By Alexandra Fenwick   Jun 16, 2010 at 04:02 PM

The latest Knight News Challenge has been closed and the winners are in, just announced earlier today. First, the bad... More

The Man on the Street

So a citizen journalist walks into a journalism school …

By Alexandra Fenwick   May 28, 2010 at 12:51 PM

Lots of people walk through the doors of the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism every day. Just this past month,... More

Making News Pay

Is it possible to design a paywall that’s both permeable and profitable?

By The Editors   May 25, 2010 at 12:30 PM

After years in which discussion of getting readers to pay for news was out of fashion, momentum seems to be... More

How Blogs and Social Media Agendas Relate To Traditional, Oh To Hell With It

By Alexandra Fenwick   May 25, 2010 at 08:30 AM

Yesterday, the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism released another of their comprehensive and fascinating research reports on... More