The British newspaper chain Trinity Mirror has had some significant success online, both in terms of traffic growth and revenue, by experimenting with standalone sites that have been built quickly by… Read more »
The New York Times has been getting some well-deserved praise for its interactive “Snow Fall” multimedia feature — but as beautiful as the project is, it also raises almost as many… Read more »
A researcher who specializes in analysing the way that information flows through Wikipedia during a breaking news event compared the way seven mass shootings — including the recent incident at an… Read more »
Critics of the kind of real-time verification that National Public Radio editor Andy Carvin practices on Twitter during events like the Sandy Hook shootings say the process introduces too many errors… Read more »
In an attempt to help get around what they call a financial blockade of WikiLeaks and to help fund-raise for other public-interest groups, some high-profile journalists and freedom-of-information activists have set… Read more »
The way that inaccurate news reports about a mass shooting in Connecticut filtered out through social media has brought up many of the same criticisms as Hurricane Sandy — that social… Read more »
After a year-long experiment that saw its Facebook “social reading” app gain more than six million monthly users — and then lose more than half of those after the network changed… Read more »
An online news service for workers in England’s newly digital media region of the north-west has suspended activities after five years, after its recent merger has ended in acrimony. Read more »