The News Frontier

New Media Goes Door to Door in the Deep South

After a year and a half, Birmingham news site Weld is cleared for launch

By Michael Meyer   May 9, 2011 at 10:57 AM

I first encountered Weld in September 2010, and it remains the only site I’m aware of that was given an... More

COIN Stars

Counterinsurgency bloggers help set the Afghanistan agenda

By Maura R. O'Connor   May 5, 2011 at 12:59 PM

When Erik Smith accepted a one-year posting to Afghanistan as a United States Agency for International Development (USAID) official working... More

NYT Interactive Graph Plots Readers’ Feelings About Bin Laden

By Lauren Kirchner   May 3, 2011 at 02:55 PM

Much like New York magazine’s “Approval Matrix,” which plots pop culture happenings on matrices of “highbrow” to “low” and “brilliant”... More

Sunday Night Screenshots

How the news websites did bin Laden

By Lauren Kirchner   May 2, 2011 at 01:25 PM

This Monday morning, the headlines practically wrote themselves, and there was no question about which story would get top billing.... More

“The Guy Who Liveblogged the Osama Raid Without Knowing It”

By Lauren Kirchner   May 2, 2011 at 11:35 AM

This may be the strangest way to become Twitter-famous. Sohaib Athar, a computer programmer living in Pakistan, live-tweeted the US... More

National Geographic Taking the Wheel at Scienceblogs.com

Report of merger prompts campfire history tale on Twitter

By Curtis Brainard   Apr 26, 2011 at 11:00 AM

“My baby's all grown up,” mused Christopher Mims, retweeting an unconfirmed announcement posted nineteen minutes earlier that Scienceblogs.com, the site... More

Journalism Festival on Small Outlets with Big Impact

By Lauren Kirchner   Apr 15, 2011 at 12:55 PM

The fifth annual International Journalism Festival continued on Friday in Perugia, Italy, and CJR’s managing web editor Justin Peters is,... More

Journalism Festival Addresses Paywalls and Engagement

By Lauren Kirchner   Apr 14, 2011 at 11:25 AM

This week, Perugia, Italy hosts the fifth annual International Journalism Festival, a free, week-long gathering of writers, editors, hackers, academics,... More

“Don’t Call it a Paywall”

A panel discussion with NYT’s Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. and Janet Robinson

By Lauren Kirchner   Apr 6, 2011 at 12:05 PM

On Tuesday night, New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. and New York Times Company president and CEO Janet Robinson... More

The Downsides of Crowd-Funding

Wired shows potential limitations of Kickstarter, Emphas.is

By Lauren Kirchner   Mar 31, 2011 at 01:15 PM

The March issue of Wired features a lengthy profile of the folks who founded Kickstarter, a site launched in 2009... More

Last Night’s Shorty Awards #Winners

By Lauren Kirchner   Mar 29, 2011 at 12:15 PM

On Monday night, The Times Center in New York hosted the third annual Shorty Awards, a very silly ceremony “honoring... More

When Corporate Policies Trump Online Rights

U.S. technology companies can no longer be neutral

By Lauren Kirchner   Mar 29, 2011 at 10:00 AM

Last winter, Amazon Web Services received some negative attention after it dropped WikiLeaks materials from its servers, and WikiLeaks associates... More

Instapaper and Readability Come Out of Their Shells

By Lauren Kirchner   Mar 24, 2011 at 01:15 PM

The New York Times’s Gadgetwise blog notes today that the online reading services Readability and Instapaper are both undergoing curious... More

Arab Spring: A Guardian Interactive Timeline

By Lauren Kirchner   Mar 23, 2011 at 11:15 AM

On Tuesday, The Guardian posted an excellent infographic, ”The path of protest,” which promises to make the popular uprisings sweeping... More

Detecting Fake Photos with Digital Forensics

A Q&A with Hany Farid on photo forensics

By Lauren Kirchner   Mar 23, 2011 at 10:36 AM

As photography has gone digital, it has become ever easier to manipulate images with Photoshop and other technology. Digital photographs... More