The power of amateur or “citizen” journalism becomes obvious when you look at two recent examples: one being the tracking of military activity in Ukraine, and the other the effort by… Read more »
David Carr, a former crack cocaine addict who recovered and became the widely celebrated media writer for the New York Times, died Thursday — and with his passing, the world lost… Read more »
Guardian digital editor and former New York Times staffer Aron Pilhofer says media outlets are making a monumental mistake by ending comments, instead of focusing on how they can use them… Read more »
It’s easy to focus on the negatives in media — the mistakes, the downsizing at traditional journalistic outlets, etc. — but there were plenty of reasons to be optimistic about the… Read more »
The New York Times built an in-house crowdsourcing platform called Hive so that readers could help it identify old print ads — and now the paper has open-sourced the software that… Read more »
Layoffs at newspapers like the New York Times are no longer a surprise. But we should be careful not to assume that just because some papers are downsizing, journalism as a… Read more »
Jill Abramson, former executive editor of the New York Times, is launching a new journalism startup with media entrepreneur Steven Brill that the two say will pay writers $100,000 or more… Read more »
An essay by the head of Google News about the value of trust in journalism sparked a debate on Twitter about whether trust is a good way to think about how… Read more »
Facebook exerts a huge amount of control over how millions of people get their news, and media companies are right to be nervous about this state of affairs — so what… Read more »
Writer David Sessions argues in a piece at Patrol magazine that journalism is worse because of the effects of the internet — but most of the things that he and others… Read more »