As doctoral student Frederik De Boer pointed out in a recent blog post on some of the new-media sites like BuzzFeed and Fusion, if you don’t focus on a specific market… Read more »
The New York Times is taking a small but important step towards its digital-first future by getting rid of the traditional “Page One” print meetings and emphasizing the web and other… Read more »
As Columbia Journalism School researcher Maxwell Foxman points out in a research paper, media companies could learn a lot from the game-playing approach that sites like BuzzFeed take towards their content Read more »
Author and journalist Craig Silverman looks at the explosion of online hoaxes, rumors and misinformation all around us — but one of the most powerful factors behind this trend is that… Read more »
Why do the homepages of so many news sites look the same? Former National Public Radio digital editor Melody Kramer came up with more than 60 different ways to rethink the homepage Read more »
Some media watchers are wondering whether NBC anchor Brian Williams will be able to regain his position at the pinnacle of the U.S. news business now that he has been caught… Read more »
In an attempt to hold what was once an experimental viral-content lab to higher standards of conduct, BuzzFeed has published a new comprehensive standards and ethical guidelines document that tells staff… Read more »
Former Guardian digital editor and Columbia University professor Emily Bell says social platforms like Facebook and Google need to work with journalists and media organizations to protect principles like free of… Read more »
Creating web content is incredibly easy — but filtering content is really hard. In late 2014, I realized I was reading too much bad content. I felt enraged by some of… Read more »
Services like Magzter and NextIssue promise a digital version of the old-fashioned newsstand, where people can flip through the virtual pages of their favorite magazines — but that’s not the way… Read more »